Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan CBE is an Irish-born cricketer who captains the England cricket team in limited overs cricket. A left-handed batsman, he plays county cricket for Middlesex and has played for England’s Test, One Day International, and Twenty20 International teams. He was the first player to score an ODI hundred for two nations. As of December 2019, Morgan is the all-time leading run scorer and most capped player for England in ODI matches.
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Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan CBE is an Irish-born cricketer who captains the England cricket team in limited overs cricket. A left-handed batsman, he plays county cricket for Middlesex and has played for England’s Test, One Day International, and Twenty20 International teams. He was the first player to score an ODI hundred for two nations. As of December 2019, Morgan is the all-time leading run scorer and most capped player for England in ODI matches. He is the only England captain to have scored more than 4 ODI centuries. Under his captaincy, England won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, the first time they had won the tournament. In January 2020, Eoin Morgan was named as the captain of Middlesex’s T20 team for the 2020 Vitality Blast campaign. Morgan was born in Dublin and brought up in Rush, where his father was from. His mother is English. He learnt to play cricket at Rush Cricket Club, wherehis father, Jody, was Third XI captain. He represented Ireland’s youth teams and was capped at Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17 level, eventually he became Ireland’s youngest senior international. In the preceding player auction, he was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for a sum of USD 220,000. In 2014, Morgan decided not to enter the IPL due to England playing in Sri Lanka at home when IPL took place. In 2015, he decided to play the Indian Premier League and was bought for USD 150,000 by Sunrisers Hyderabad for the next three years.
He also played for the Kolkata Knight Riders for USD 350,000 at the 2011 IPL auctions. He played in three Leinster Senior Schools Cup champion teams. Morgan played in the final match of the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash for the Sydney Thunder against the Melbourne Stars. He hit a six off the final ball of the innings to win a KFC T20 Big bash for Sydney Thunder. He took part in the 2014 IPL auction and was purchased by the Sunriser Hyderabad for $150,000 during the auction. He has been named as one of the England Cricket Writers’ XI for next year’s World Cup in Australia. He captained Ireland in the 2006 Under-19 World Cup where he finished as the second-highest overall run-scorer. Morgan scored his maiden first-class century for MiddlesEX on 5 July 2008 at Uxbridge. This was compiled from 250 balls. He achieved this against the touring South Africans before their Test series against England; the innings included three sixes off spinner Paul Harris. Morgan captained England in ODIs and T20Is as a stand-in. After regular captain Shaun Udal was injured he was named captain, at an age of just 22, having been chosen over senior players Owais Shah, Chris Silverwood, Murali Kartik and Tyron Henderson. He underlined his growing maturity after leading Middlesex to victory in the County Championship against Kent.
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