Happy Birthday Eoin Morgan
The world Cup winning captain Eoin Morgan (Happy Birthday Eoin Morgan) is celebrating his 36th birthday today.
Morgan was born on September 10, 1986 in Dublin in Ireland, and is known for his reliable batting and excellent leadership skills.
During his international career so far, he has scored 10839 runs (test+ODI+T20 combined), including 16 centuries and 64 half centuries, and he has played a crucial role in guiding England to win their first ICC cricket World Cup and many crucial matches.
Eoin Morgan was appointed as captain of England’s white-ball team after Alastair Cook was removed from ODI captaincy and since then he is handling the responsibility with sheer dedication and commitment.
When Bangladesh eliminated England from the 2015 ODI World Cup, Morgan started from scratch and assembled an outstanding team. And the result of his outstanding approach was England won their first-ever World Cup in 2019.
How he started in international cricket?
Making his international debut against Scotland in 2006. Morgan didn’t take long to receive appreciations from around the world for his brilliant batting skills. But the road was not easy for Morgan as he was born in Ireland, but wants to play for England.
He started his cricketing journey with Ireland cricket and had featured in 23 ODIs for Ireland.
Morgan, who had previously played for Ireland, made his debut for his for England against the Netherlands in England’s opening T20 World Cup encounter. He was a member of England’s T20 World Cup-winning team in 2010 under the leadership of Paul Collingwood, and in 2011 he was chosen for the 50-over squad. He then instantly became everyone’s favourite due to his impressive technique and dependable batting approach.
Apart from heroics in World Cup 2019, Morgan had played solid cricket in the other major tournaments as well.
Talking about one of his fine innings, when England were hosting New Zealand right after the disappointing ICC World Cup campaign in 2015. Morgan showed the world about the new era of English cricket.
In the 4th match of the ODI series, while chasing a target of 350, Morgan smashed a destructive 113 to hand his side a victory and also level the series by 2-2. He later won player of the match for his match winning knock.
He scored 322 runs in 5 ODIs in that series at an average of 64.40 and a strike rate of 124.81.
During the ICC World Cup 2019 campaign, Eoin Morgan amassed 362 in 10 games at a healthy strike rate of 116.63
Eoin Morgan’s Record and Achievements
The veteran has played 16 tests, 248 ODIs, and 115 T20Is. He smashed 700 runs in test cricket, 7,701 runs in one-day internationals and 2,458 in the T20Is.
Morgan has been referred to be a destructive cricketer because of his ability to hot monstrous sixes.
Morgan is the only batter in history to have recorded two ODI hundreds while playing for two different nations, England and Ireland.
Eoin Morgan is one of the greatest captains in cricket history. This is due to the limited-overs modification he did in the English side. When he took retirement a few months ago, Morgan was England’s all-time leading run scorer in ODI and T20I cricket with 6,957 and 2,458 runs, respectively.
