England’s World Cup-winning captain, Eoin Morgan announces retirement from Cricket

February 15, 2023

England’s World Cup-winning captain, Eoin Morgan: Eoin Morgan, who guided England to their first-ever ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup victory in 2019, has announced his immediate retirement from the game of cricket. Morgan’s last appearance came for the Paarl Royals in the semi-final of the recently concluded SA20 League. Following a 16-year-long career that had begun with Ireland, before he moved to England. He continued to play in various global franchise leagues across the world thereafter.

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Career of Eoin Morgan

In a professional career that began in 2006, Morgan amassed 5,042 runs in first-class cricket, 11,654 in List A, and 7,780 in T20s. One of England’s white-ball greats, Morgan remains England’s leading run-scorer – 6957 runs in 225 ODIs with 13 hundreds – and the most successful captain in ODIs, with 76 wins from 126 matches he led in.
As for T20Is, he aggregated 2458 runs in 115 matches at a strike-rate of 136.18 with 14 fifties. An integral part of England’s first ICC Men’s T20 World Cup triumph in the West Indies in 2010, Morgan led the side to a runners-up finish in the 2016 edition in India. Overall, he led England to 42 T20I wins from 72 matches.