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England white-ball captain : Eoin Morgan

I thought it was a horrible decision to give Archer the super over. I don't understand this whole "I want to throw the rookie into the deep end" rubbish. What's the point of having seniors if you are just going to ignore them in big moments just to prove a point!
 
He is bilateral bulley for sure .He is not same Morgan he used to be in early 2010 who would love to bat in under pressure.
 
Of course Morgan is overrated.

The only thing he has done is to take his team to no 1 in the world and win the World Cup. That is terrible performance. He should be sacked immediately!
 
People don't realise the burden of captaining this England side in this World Cup. They have been preparing for this moment for 4 years, they are the number 1 team in the world and the majority of the people were expecting them to win the World Cup. In addition, the fact that the World Cup was in England (which motivated them to reform their ODI team in 2015) added to the pressure and the expectations.

This English side doesn't need Morgan's captaincy; you can make anyone in that team captain and they will remain the best in the world. However, had England lost this World Cup, Morgan would have copped all the blame. He was in a thankless situation, and it is perfectly reasonable to understand that too many things were going in his head for him to focus on his batting.

He has had an amazing journey. From a small town next to Dublin with a few thousand people, to becoming the first English captain to win the World Cup. He deserves a biopic and is a true hero of English cricket.
 
What an innings tonight for Middlesex in the T20 Blast.

Great to watch.
 
Morgan is a modern great in ODI format. He is a WC winning captain!

He couldn't do much in Test format but that was because England didn't give him much opportunities.
 
The way he sometimes makes excuses for losses annoys me. However, he is still one of my favorite players in the English team has been since he made his debut.

Not over rated at even if you don't take his average of 40 @ 92 into account in ODI's. He makes this team on the basis of his captaincy alone. A true leader in the team and a deserving person to guide England to their first World Cup win.
 
Amazing innings today but will his hard work go to waste?

Morgan c Bavuma b B Hendricks 52(34) [4s-7 6s-1]
 
He is a very good captain and a good LO batsman who at one point was out scoring Pietersen.

I think he should have played more tests and been test captain too. He is calm, shrewd and a good motivator.

He is 34 now and completed the big job last summer and perhaps should retire a hero.
 
He is a good player. But he is a coward when I think he skipped the Bangladesh tour, when the whole team (apart from Alex Hales) went.
 
Excellent captain, world class batter , and very good captain. He been a brilliant player for England. He goes through patches where he looks like an ATG than patches where he can't get bat on ball. He is not ovverated, I would say he is rated fairly overall.
 
He is underrated, a good captain and a dynamic batsmen and above all totally dedicated to teams cause.
 
He is an excellent captain and a good batsman, but Joe Root, KP, Marcus Trescothick, Alan Lamb were better than him even in limited overs cricket.

Then the 2nd tier English LOI batsmen - Alec Stewart, Graham Thorpe, Ian Bell, J Trott, B Stokes (to date, has a high ceiling). I think Morgan fits somewhere in the upper half of this second tier group as a batsman.
 
FreePalestine said:
He is an excellent captain and a good batsman, but Joe Root, KP, Marcus Trescothick, Alan Lamb were better than him even in limited overs cricket.

Then the 2nd tier English LOI batsmen - Alec Stewart, Graham Thorpe, Ian Bell, J Trott, B Stokes (to date, has a high ceiling). I think Morgan fits somewhere in the upper half of this second tier group as a batsman.
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Thorpe was excellent, a real pressure player for England in ODIs. Fairbrother too.
 
Does his job well, England are better off with him than without him.
 
57 off 22 balls with seven sixes. England's fastest T20 fifty, breaking his own record by one ball.
 
Wonder what Ireland could have achieved had Morgan stayed with them
 
I think he has achieved everything you can as a cricketer. He would have had way more sixes if he had started his career with England.
 
Saurav said:
Wonder what Ireland could have achieved had Morgan stayed with them
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Not much more, they don't have the raw material. Also you could argue that Morgan's horizons were raised by playing with England stars such as KP.
 
Robert said:
Thorpe was excellent, a real pressure player for England in ODIs. Fairbrother too.
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Graeme Hick was a good one day player and still remember his match winning Knock in the 92 World Cup . He struggled in the test arena but one dayers he played some good knocks under pressure
 
Robert said:
Not much more, they don't have the raw material. Also you could argue that Morgan's horizons were raised by playing with England stars such as KP.
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Agree.Though having a star can certainly bolster a weak team and inspire future stars
 
Saurav said:
Piyush Chawla was part of two WC winning teams.Means nothing.His own record in Tests is quite mediocre
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The only difference is that in one of them, Morgan was the captain and a very important player in the other one.
 
Morgan has been a flop in Test.

But, he is a LOI-specialist. I don't think he cares about Test a lot.

I think he may retire as an LOI ATG by the time he retires.
 
Must be painful for Irish fans to see Morgan’s achievements. I am sure quite a few of them would have expected him to crash and burn and regret his decision, a decision that has turned out to be a masterstroke for both Morgan and England.

Sometimes in life, you have to take tough and risky decisions. The pay-off can be very rewarding.
 
Mamoon said:
Must be painful for Irish fans to see Morgan’s achievements. I am sure quite a few of them would have expected him to crash and burn and regret his decision, a decision that has turned out to be a masterstroke for both Morgan and England.

Sometimes in life, you have to take tough and risky decisions. The pay-off can be very rewarding.
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Morgan decided to play for England to represent them in test cricket. But he was never a test level batsman so you can't say he made a good call.

Rather than winning a world cup for another country he would have served Ireland cricket better in all three formats and could have been an inspiration.
 
Mobashir said:
Morgan decided to play for England to represent them in test cricket. But he was never a test level batsman so you can't say he made a good call.

Rather than winning a world cup for another country he would have served Ireland cricket better in all three formats and could have been an inspiration.
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You can’t be serious. He ended up captaining England to a World Cup win, number 1 ranking and is probably their best ever Limited Overs captain. Does this look like a bad call?

Yes he didn’t turn out to be a star Test player, but he wanted to play for a bigger team and he ended up achieving far more than he and his Irish teammates and fans would have imagined.

Had he stayed in Ireland, he wouldn’t have had 10% of the career he has had. He was clearly too good a player and a leader to be playing for a minnow/associate side.

I think he can still be an inspiration to open-minded Irish cricket fans, plus he is also an inspiration for English cricket fans.

The younger generation is likely to be more interested in Limited Overs than the previous generation because of the turnaround under his captaincy which is topped off with the World Cup win.

He started the resurgence of England in white ball cricket from 2009-10 onwards.
 
England in LOIs before Morgan: nothing, apart from the 2004 Champions Trophy final.

England in LOIs after Morgan: World Cup, WT20 and another WT20 final.

This is what you call impact. He has transformed England’s mentality in Limited Overs cricket.

They had a blip in 2014-15, but it was largely down to Cook’s presence and some poor calls by the ECB. Morgan should have been made the captain after the 2011 World Cup.
 
He's very good. He's just surrounded by excellent batsmen in Butler, Bairstow, Roy and Root.

Not given a big enough test run too, I think he would eventually come good. Was harsh to judge him and subsequently drop him because he struggled against Ajmal and Rehman in UAE. Almost all the English batters didn't do well there in that series yet Morgan was the one who got the axe.
 
Mamoon said:
England in LOIs before Morgan: nothing, apart from the 2004 Champions Trophy final.

England in LOIs after Morgan: World Cup, WT20 and another WT20 final.

This is what you call impact. He has transformed England’s mentality in Limited Overs cricket.

They had a blip in 2014-15, but it was largely down to Cook’s presence and some poor calls by the ECB. Morgan should have been made the captain after the 2011 World Cup.
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Pretty compelling case. Given his outstanding results over a long period & multiple coaches.

There is also no obvious better choice as captain- Root isn't a leader. Stokes kept mucking up off the field repeatedly. Broad is was shifted to longer formats for the most part. Simply no one else for the job & he quietly set about achieving. It takes no small ambition for an Irish kid to get as far as he did & I suspect people often overlook a real steelyness & competitive drive underneath his surface, which he is clearly able to instill also in a squad under his direction.

Great choice as short format captain. Also right call not to have him in the Test squad anymore. Let him play to his strengths & keeo focus on limited overs.
 
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A very good player who has over-achieved to compensate a poor start to his international cricket journey. England could use his services up in the batting order, he can switch gears effortlessly and be more useful to his team, if he plays for more overs.
 
GreenKhan said:
Graeme Hick was a good one day player and still remember his match winning Knock in the 92 World Cup . He struggled in the test arena but one dayers he played some good knocks under pressure
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I remember a shot he played off Aaqib at the death of one match. He stepped back from the stumps to give himself room to swing. Aaqib spotted this and followed him, fired the ball at his pads. Hick seemed to have so much time to step back to his guard, then lazily swat Aaqib for six over square leg.

Useful ODI bowler too, and superlative slip catcher.
 
Saurav said:
Piyush Chawla was part of two WC winning teams.Means nothing.His own record in Tests is quite mediocre
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He has two test centuries in not many tests. One against Asif and Amir under overcast, rescuing the England innings. He should have played more tests and been skipper instead of Cook.
 
Robert said:
He has two test centuries in not many tests. One against Asif and Amir under overcast, rescuing the England innings. He should have played more tests and been skipper instead of Cook.
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Hindsight.Two home tons in 16 Tests with an average of 30.Not good enough to even play let alone captain
 
Saurav said:
Hindsight.Two home tons in 16 Tests with an average of 30.Not good enough to even play let alone captain
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Sometimes it can take that many tests for a player to find his feet. I think Steve Waugh waited 27 tests before he hit a century.

Morgs is a better motivator and tactician than Cook and should have been a regular in the test side from 2013 onwards. He is better than many that were tried.
 
Fantastic innings of 106 off 84 balls vs Ireland in 3rd ODI!
 
Eoin Morgan surpasses MS Dhoni to achieve major record in international cricket

Eoin Morgan on Tuesday surpassed former Indian captain MS Dhoni to become the player with most sixes in international cricket as captain. Morgan blasted one over the square-leg boundary to achieve the feat as he now has 212 sixes to his name whereas Dhoni had 211 while captaining Indian cricket team.

After Morgan (212*) and Dhoni (211), former Australian captain Ricky Ponting headlines the list with 171 sixes while former New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum had 170 maximums under his belt. Moreover, Morgan has taken just 163 matches to shatter the record books.

Most sixes as captain in international cricket:

212 - Eoin Morgan (163 matches)

211 - MS Dhoni (332)

171 - Ricky Ponting (324)

170 - Brendon McCullum (121)

135 - AB de Villiers (124)

England captain Morgan has managed to continue his rich run of form since 2018 and has been constantly among the runs for his side. Not only did he led England to their maiden 50-over World Cup triumph in 2019, the southpaw played some crucial knocks in the showpiece tournament including a splendid 148-run knock against Afghanistan.

Morgan was among the runs in the first ODI against Ireland as well where his 36 not-out helped England start the series on a winning note. Following a rare duck in the second ODI, Morgan came strong in the final match and completed his half-century in just 39 deliveries.

England would be eyeing a clean-sweep against Ireland after winning first two matches of the series.

https://www.wionews.com/sports/eng-...-major-record-in-international-cricket-318154
 
He is a clutch player similar to Elliot and Raina. These sort of batsmen are very handy in the shorter formats!
 
A Limited Overs legend when you factor in his captaincy. Top, top player.
 
We would kill for a player like Morgan in our set up.

Rate him also for his captaincy. He's one who supports his players through thick and thin but also isn't afraid to make big decisions
 
Ahmed_99 said:
We would kill for a player like Morgan in our set up.

Rate him also for his captaincy. He's one who supports his players through thick and thin but also isn't afraid to make big decisions
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He has had a big hand in Adil Rashid's development as well.
 
Prince of Pakistan said:
He has had a big hand in Adil Rashid's development as well.
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Definitely. If I'm honest I don't think a player like Adil Rashid would have flourished if he was playing for Pakistan. Morgan has given him so much confidence and used him so well in those middle overs of ODIs and T20s.

He's a likeable guy too and leads from the front too
 
If anything, Morgan is hugely underrated. He is certainly amongst the top 5 limited over batsmen and perhaps one of top 3 middle order batsmen. Because he doesn't play test cricket, his limited over performance don't get the recognization it deserves.
 
One thing is for sure, he's a damn good captain.

Never panics and knows his players so well.
 
Fantastic captain, as we all saw today. As the commies have been saying all day, Captain Cool for sure.

Also an English LOI legend, perhaps overall LOI legend when he retires.
 
Eoin Morgan is in the midst of a poor run of form in the Indian Premier League, with the England captain making just 17 runs in four innings since the tournament's resumption in the UAE.

In the Kolkata Knight Riders' most recent game against Punjab Kings, a five-wicket defeat, Morgan was out for a second ball duck after getting pinned LBW by Mohammed Shami.

Across the entire tournament, Morgan has scored 109 runs in 11 innings at an average of 10.90 and a strike rate of 100.92.

During the summer, Morgan managed just 49 runs in four innings for England in the T20I series' against Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

His form has raised concerns heading into the T20 World Cup, with the tournament being staged in the same place as the ongoing IPL.

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However, Kevin Pietersen has defended Morgan, stating that no player is "a robot" and urging fans to "cut athletes some slack".

When asked about Morgan's form during a Twitter Q&A, Pietersen replied: "It happens. No sports person is a robot that continually performs. People need to cut athletes some slack!"

Kolkata coach Brendon McCullum has admitted that his side needs more from Morgan, but he backed the England captain to come good.

He said: "He's one of our senior players. He's one of our international batters and in his own head, he would have loved to contribute more runs.

"I think he's captained the side really well. But look, you want some more runs from him there's no doubt in there.

"You need runs from your overseas players and you particularly need in those key spots as well. I am confident he will come alright. Some guys are really going well."

Morgan will be hoping to find some form before the IPL ends, with the 35-year-old looking to lead England to glory at the T20 World Cup when their campaign gets underway on October 23.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/eoin-morgan-kevin-pietersen-england-25122888
 
I haven't seen any IPL this year but Morgan is a class player whose biggest struggle is against quality spin. I would still happily have him in my team as he can change the game when in full flow.
 
Morgan hasn't been in great touch for some time. It ofcourse doesn't mean he is not a quality player because he certainly is.

Also plays spin quite well so credit to him for that considering his origin. A lot of athletes have been quite off during the post-pandemic phase.
 
He is a class player no doubt.
I recall long back during some interview, Gavaskar mentioning his name when asked who was the next batsmen that excites him. Morgan has underachieved with all his talent that way
 
Eoin Morgan joined Middlesex as a wide-eyed teenager from Dublin in June 2003, the same month the ECB launched a professional T20 competition for the first time.

In micro and macro terms respectively, both have changed the English game irrevocably across the 20 summers since. But as Morgan, who is 36 this summer, embarks on another T20 campaign with Middlesex tomorrow, it is worth wondering if this will be his last.

With only a white-ball deal at Middlesex, a quad injury, and having gone unsold in the IPL auction, Morgan has gone four months without a game. He calls this “reality time” with his young family.

After his time out, he is speaking with genuine enthusiasm for the game. There is an excitement about England’s new era, for the Test team under his great friend Brendon McCullum, and in white-ball cricket with Matthew Mott, who he has admired “from afar” for many years and "cannot wait” to work with.

And although it is some time since Morgan, for all his white-ball evangelism, has been much of a fan of the Blast (which he finds unwieldier than many of the tournaments he has called home, not least the Hundred), there is excitement for that too. His expectations for Middlesex are tempered, but he hopes the confidence built topping Division Two of the County Championship will prove contagious.

“You don’t have to be a genius to see we’ve struggled with our T20 cricket for some time now,” he says. “The focus has generally been on four-day cricket.

“We have obviously had a fantastic start to our Championship season so hopefully ride a bit of the confidence from there, and bring some new energy with overseas players, myself and some young guys.”

He picks out Joe Cracknell and Blake Cullen as young players he is especially enthused by.

Morgan is no longer Middlesex’s T20 captain – the prolific Stevie Eskinazi takes over – and will see his own involvement curtailed early in the season. He will not play back-to-back matches (Middlesex twice have three in four days early in the season) in the hope of avoiding injury, having learnt from the T20 tour to Barbados in January. So he will play at Gloucestershire at Radlett tomorrow, but not at Hampshire on Friday.

“There’s nothing specific [injury wise],” he says. “I’m just old, I think! It takes longer to recover. I did play the two back-to-back games in Barbados, then I got injured. You shouldn’t get injured warming up as a batsman, but I pulled my quad warming up, which means my body just didn’t recover at all.”

Morgan is looking to conserve his body for five busy months with England, from the Netherlands ODIs through to the T20 World Cup in November, via home series against India and South Africa, and series in Pakistan and Australia, not to mention the Hundred.

Morgan’s durability for England’s schedule is a concern. They play back-to-back T20 matches this summer, the seven T20s in Pakistan will be squeezed into less than a fortnight, while two ODIs in three days (as they have in the Netherlands) would seem likely to trouble him now, too.

“There are back-to-back games in the international fixtures, so just getting to them and seeing how I am, will be a decision made then,” he says. "There is more solace looking towards the World Cup, because there aren’t fixtures within a few days. Everywhere else we play, they see time and just want to have games.”

Morgan is not looking beyond the World Cup (England’s ODI defence in 2023 looks a long way off) and accepts he has to take things “week by week”, with “contingency plans” – Jos Buttler or perhaps Moeen Ali as captain – in place. He knows too that he needs to be worth his place in the side through runs, which have been thin of late.

“Particularly with getting injured recently on the West Indies tour, I need to be as honest as I can with Keysy [England managing director Rob Key] and everyone else to make sure we are in the right position come Australia in October,” he said. “I have always said that if I am on the way to a ground and feel done or cooked, or lacking the drive for it as a leader, I will communicate ASAP to Rob.

“But I think it’s important that I play it week by week to start with, and aim for the T20 World Cup.”

With so much focus on reviving England’s ailing Test side, Morgan accepts that he is unlikely to have his best team until the World Cup, giving the summer an experimental feel, and rails against a perception that white-ball cricket has taken great precedent in recent years.

“I don’t expect to see many of the multi-format guys until October,” he says. “I would rather them be consumed by Test cricket for the summer, and have lots of rest. We don’t want them cooking themselves in August and still having three months of cricket to play.

“This has been the case for the last few years. The understanding around that [not having the best players at all times][ for the new coach is important. It’s fine saying it in theory but obviously when you are being held accountable mainly for results and a little bit of development, and are handed a team that is maybe third string, it is a more difficult pill to swallow. Baz [McCullum] and Motty's relationship will be very important.” Split coaching, though, he says is “necessary”.

“Covering both to the best of your ability as a coach or manager is pretty impossible, with the demands of the schedule,” he says.

Morgan says he can “relate” to the state of the Test team, having helped lift the white-ball setup in 2015, and believes McCullum is the perfect man for the job. It is worth noting the way he uses the word “manager”, like football, in place of coach.

There’s part of me wishing I was a young aspiring Test cricketer coming through with Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum in charge

“I have worked with Baz as a manager in the last couple of years in the IPL. It’s unbelievably exciting for Test cricket, not just English cricket. There is a bigger side to this. For Test cricket to continue to be appealing, it needs a strong England. The start of that is making a statement of intent, with a very strong appointment of one of the best coaches, or managers in the world.

“There’s part of me wishing I was a young aspiring Test cricketer coming through with Ben [Stokes] and Baz being in charge.”

It is like 2003 all over again.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/cr...england-middlesex-t20-world-cup-b1002287.html
 
Eoin Morgan has no end date in mind for his England captaincy - but has stressed he will call it a day if he feels he is no longer contributing.

The 35-year-old has overseen a dramatic upturn in England's white-ball cricket since becoming skipper in December 2014, most notably steering his side to the 2019 50-over World Cup.

Morgan also guided England to the final of the T20 World Cup in 2016 and the semi-final last year, while the team has spent time at the head of the one-day international and T20 international rankings on his watch.

The left-hander's form with the bat has been up and down at times - he is currently averaging 16 across his last 18 T20I innings - and he has also missed games here and there with niggling injuries.

Speaking to Sky Sports ahead of the three-match ODI series in the Netherlands, which starts on Friday, Morgan said: "I would love to say I am finishing here or there and that's it. I would love to work like that but the way my body is at the moment, I can't work like that.

"If I injured myself tomorrow and it was going to be quite a prolonged injury then I wouldn't be doing the team and myself any favours if I still held a commitment to finish at a certain point. If I don't think I am good enough or I don't feel I am contributing to the team, then I will finish.

Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Brydon Carse (Durham), Sam Curran (Surrey), Liam Livingstone (Lancashire), Dawid Malan (Yorkshire), David Payne (Gloucestershire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Phil Salt (Lancashire), Reece Topley (Surrey), David Willey (Yorkshire), Luke Wood (Lancashire)

"That's just the way I am and I hope that rubs off onto the team. Your leader doesn't have to be selfless, they can be whoever he or she wants to be, but I feel this is a better way of doing things.

"Since taking the captaincy [any lack of form] has not been a huge issue for me, simply because I know if I am not good enough to score runs or contribute then I will drop myself.

"I know I will come back into form at some stage. The cycle throughout my career has been a complete rollercoaster so it's nothing strange."

'Buttler best in the world right now'

Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali have each stood in for Morgan as skipper over the years and the current captain will have both of them at his disposal against the Netherlands, along with currently uncapped left-arm seam bowlers David Payne (Gloucestershire) and Luke Wood (Lancashire).

Buttler arrives fresh from being the leading run-scorer at the Indian Premier League, racking up 863 runs for finalists Rajasthan Royals with four hundreds and as many fifties, while Moeen comes into the series with letters after his name having been awarded an OBE for services to cricket.

Morgan said: "Jos is one of the best in the world. Right here and now, he probably is the best in the world. He enjoys that with where he is in his career, it sits well with him. The big thing you notice about how he plays is that everything he does is revolved around winning the game.

"When you are a little bit younger all you are trying to do is impact the game. The older you get it is about getting your side over the line. Rajasthan were heavily dependent on his runs and he took on that responsibility while also being able to take risks.

"Moeen has been incredible. He is unbelievably respected on and off the field and has given so much of himself in our changing room. He is always himself, never tries to be anyone else.

"He has the ability to break the ice but also take things seriously when needed and obviously the role he plays in the community he is from is huge. He embraces being that role model and I hugely admire him for that."

With a number of first-team players missing the Netherlands series due to Test commitments and injury, Morgan is looking for a similar outcome to the ODIs against Pakistan last summer.

Back then, England had to field an entirely new squad after their initial party was placed in Covid isolation, with the replacement team going on to secure a notable 3-0 sweep.

Morgan said: "The biggest compliment in recent times was that against a full-strength Pakistan the players that came in played the brand of cricket we have played for the last five or six years.

"We weren't sure how they would play but, my god, they were aggressive, positive, and played some smart cricket along the way to beat an extremely good side. For the future generations coming into our team, the ambition is to continue pushing that envelope and challenging for places."

'Mott is a good leader'

Payne and Wood - two of five left-arm quicks in the England squad, alongside Reece Topley, Sam Curran and David Willey - add a freshness to the playing group but there will also be another new face around the camp in recently-appointed white-ball head coach Matthew Mott.

Mott, 48, links up with England after seven years as head coach of the Australia Women's team.

During that time, he presided over two T20 Word Cup wins, four unbeaten Ashes campaigns, a 26-match ODI winning streak and then a 50-over World Cup crown earlier this year in which Australia won each of their nine games, securing the trophy with a 71-run victory over England in the final.

Morgan said of Mott, who coached Glamorgan between 2011 and 2013: "I think the applicants that were shortlisted were excellent and Matthew stood out a bit more for [England managing director of men's cricket] Rob Key and the guys adjudicating on that.

"He worked as an assistant to our old coach Trevor Bayliss at New South Wales and Trevor spoke about his drive as a coach and his demeanour. He also made an impression on a lot of people when he was at Glamorgan and has had a lot of success recently with the Australia women's team.

"He oversaw a transition there and for them to run a World Cup campaign like they did takes a huge amount of planning, strategy, drive and good leaders. He was obviously one of those good leaders.

When I first became captain I threw myself into everything and I learnt a lot of hard lessons. You need to save your energy for big decisions that impact the game or your team-mates. If you are throwing the same amount of energy into every decision there is an issue. You become better at delegating, more aware, as you go along.

"One of the characteristics I told Keysy [Rob Key] I wanted from a coach was someone who held us accountable, which is what Trevor Bayliss and Chris Silverwood did so well. We are trying to win everything we are going into which means we are never standing still.

"The mantra is always to try and improve and given we only made the semi-finals of the most recent T20 World Cup emphasises that more. We were absolutely exceptional going into the tournament and throughout it - but then for four overs in the semi-final we weren't exceptional. That cost us.

"We can't sit back and say, 'we were good for the majority of the tournament, we will be fine'. We still need to plug holes where needed and grow depth. Motty is going to be key in that."

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England's white-ball captain Eoin Morgan will rotate himself this summer, casting further doubt on his playing at the 2023 World Cup.

Morgan, who has skippered the limited-overs side since 2014 and led them to 50-over World Cup glory in 2019, has been trying to manage injuries.

"I genuinely have the best interests of the team at heart. It's always been that way," said Morgan, 35.

England play the first of three one-dayers against Netherlands on Friday.

A hectic July follows, with three Twenty20 internationals and three ODIs apiece against both India and South Africa.

Morgan is currently dealing with a thigh problem and has previously struggled with back and knee issues.

He said he hoped to play in all three of England's ODIs against the Dutch in Amstelveen, but was "reluctant to 100 per cent commit to that" as he will have to "manage" himself.

England's 'legacy coach' - but who is Matthew Mott?
Morgan said: "Some of our international games are back-to-back, I did it in the West Indies where I played Saturday, Sunday and then injured myself before the game on the Wednesday.

"That was a result of playing two international games back-to-back. So it's unlikely I will be playing every England game this summer.

"But that's purely dependent on how I get from here to that match. If I'm flying and everything is going well absolutely (I'll play), but if not, there is no need to try to replicate that for a World Cup because it just doesn't happen. But yes, I'll just manage."

'India? That's a long way away'

New England white-ball coach Matthew Mott said on Thursday that Morgan still had "lot of great cricket ahead of him" and his departure was "a long way off," albeit without giving a specific timeframe.

England's next major tournament is the T20 World Cup in Australia in October and November and, fitness aside, Morgan is expected to lead the side down under.

Morgan, however, was reluctant to be drawn on whether he would spearhead England's defence of the 50-over World Cup they won so dramatically against New Zealand at Lord's three years ago - and which India will host in 16 months' time.

"India? That's a long way away, I need to get to the T20 one first," added Morgan, who has played a total of 246 ODIs and 115 T20Is, having begun his international career with Ireland before switching allegiance to England in 2009.

"I'm going to take it as it comes, managing my contribution, my body, [asking myself] am I still contributing on and off the field, within the team.

"I will be as honest as I am with everybody since I started the captaincy. At the moment I still feel like I contribute, still feel like I can contribute to a World Cup win. That's an important drive for me.

"I have trusted that method since I took over. To be in the position I am in at the moment is a privilege."

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/61827825
 
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He’s winding it down now.

Might make it to the 2023 World Cup but can’t see him going past that.
 
Must be the laughing stock of the England dressing room today vs Ned!

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Don't see him making through 2023 wc.
2022 t20 WC should be his last assignment as skipper.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">1️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ runs<br>7️⃣1️⃣ balls<br>4️⃣ x 4️⃣s<br>1️⃣7️⃣ x 6️⃣s<br><br>Morgs magic against Afghanistan <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> in 2019! <a href="https://t.co/dSdm1JicAF">pic.twitter.com/dSdm1JicAF</a></p>— England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href="https://twitter.com/englandcricket/status/1538084104272494592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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It is obvious that he will retire from international cricket after the 2023 World Cup and Buttler will take over as captain.

He is most likely going to retire from T20Is after the upcoming WT20.
 
If he continues to the ODI world cup then it may be in a Darren Sammy type role where doesnt bat and is a specialist captain.
 
Averages 35 in ODIs since the WC, which is propped up by performances against Ireland and SL, while he failed vs SA, IND, AUS.

Not useless yet but on the way out. His legacy is already set, a brilliant white-ball career.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
If he continues to the ODI world cup then it may be in a Darren Sammy type role where doesnt bat and is a specialist captain.
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There is no place for such role in strong team like England because they have billings, Livingstone, brook etc in the waiting for Morgan's place.
Don't forget how easily England sidelined player like Joe root from t20 squad when he could have been easily played as opener in t20s.
 
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