England’s captain is taking them to the World Cup. Those who know him describe a single-minded, inspirational leader
“Here’s a story,” says Paul Farbrace. It is from a one-day game at Trent Bridge in 2015, when he was England’s stand-in head coach. “New Zealand had made 349. In the old days we’d have had no chance but Hales and Roy got us off to this great start, and now we’re 90-something for none. So we need 260 off 40 overs, and all we really need to do is bat properly. Hales gets out and he comes and sits down between me and Jos Buttler. Jos asks him: ‘Did you think at any stage that maybe we didn’t need to keep playing these big shots?’ And Alex goes: ‘No, no. You just keep hitting it.’
“Now Morgan’s out batting with [Joe] Root, and Matt Henry is bowling. So Jos says: ‘Look, we’ve scored five off this over already. Rooty has hit a four off the first ball and a single off the third, So all we’ve got to do here is bat sensibly.’ And as he says it, Morgs runs down the wicket and flat-bats Henry over wide mid-off for this huge six, one of the biggest I’ve ever seen him hit. And all three of us just fell about laughing. It summed him up, really. There are so many times I’ve seen him do things that other people wouldn’t have dreamed of doing, but for him it’s a natural thing. Always has been.”
Written by Andy Bull
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/26/eoin-morgan-england-world-cup under the title “The making of Eoin Morgan: ‘You got a sense he was something special’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
