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The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday congratulated Eoin Morgan for an excellent worldwide profession that noticed him lead England to victory within the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in 2019. The 35-year-old, who was instrumental in England’s robust displaying in restricted overs video games lately, introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket on Tuesday because the main scorer for England in ODIs and T20Is.
ICC Chief Executive Geoff Allardice praised Morgan’s progressive batting and astute captaincy whereas wishing him all the perfect for the longer term.
ICC Chief Executive Geoff Allardice, in an official launch, mentioned: “Eoin was an exceptional talent from his early days with the Ireland team and over the years he developed into a top-class batter and captain, leading England’s resurgence in limited overs cricket culminating in that quite extraordinary World Cup victory at Lord’s in 2019. On behalf of the ICC, I congratulate him for an outstanding career and wish him every success in the next phase of his career.”
Morgan scored 99 on ODI debut for Ireland in opposition to Scotland in 2006 and performed in all three codecs after switching over to England in 2009. He was named as England’s white-ball captain in December 2014 and led the staff to the ultimate of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2016. He additionally led them to the semifinals of the T20 World Cup final 12 months.
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Morgan scored 700 runs with two centuries and three half-centuries in 16 Tests, 7,701 runs with 14 centuries and 47 half-centuries in 248 ODIs and a pair of,458 runs with 14 half-centuries in 115 T20Is.
He was the top-ranked batter within the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Rankings between August 2011 and February 2012 and made it to the highest 10 of the ODI rankings in January 2014.
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