LEEDS, United Kingdom — England’s World Cup-winning captain
Eoin Morgan is
set to retire from international cricket, with an official announcement
expected as soon as Tuesday, according to the BBC.
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Under Morgan,
England won the 2019 50-over World Cup — their first major global limited-overs
title — and reached the top of the one-day and Twenty20 rankings.
But the 35-year-old
Dublin-born batter has been struggling with form and fitness issues this year.
He was twice out
for nought during the recent ODI series away to the Netherlands in Amstelveen
and withdrew from the third match with a groin issue.
England face India
in a three-match T20 international series starting on July 7, while the T20
World Cup in Australia begins in October.
If Morgan does
indeed step down ahead of the 2023 50-over World Cup in India, vice-captain Jos
Buttler would appear to be the favorite to replace him as England’s white-ball
skipper.
Morgan is England’s
leading run-scorer of all time in ODI and T20 cricket with 6,957 and 2,458 runs
respectively. His tally of 225 ODIs and 115 T20Is is also an England record.
But he has made
just two fifties from his past 28 international innings across the two
white-ball formats.
Prior to the
Netherlands series he confessed to feeling his age and struggling to recover
physically form matches, telling Sky Sports: “If I don’t think I am good enough
or I don’t feel I am contributing to the team, then I will finish.”
Morgan switched
allegiance from his native Ireland in 2009, having forged an English county
career with Middlesex.
He was a pioneer in
becoming an England white-ball specialist after calling time on a 16-Test
career featuring two hundreds that ended in 2012 to concentrate on the shorter
formats.
A dynamic
middle-order batter, Morgan was also a trailblazer in the English game with his
then unusual ability to hit the ball to all parts of the ground.
He succeeded
Alastair Cook as England’s ODI captain on the eve of the 2015 World Cup in
Australia, where the team suffered a humiliating first-round exit.
Despite that reverse, Morgan remained in post and together
with former England head coach Trevor Bayliss oversaw the side’s transformation
into a major force in limited-overs cricket.
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