How is eoin morgan eligible for england

The Australian setting, therefore, allowed the Irish to make their greatest contribution to cricket. The batting all-rounder Tom Horan, for example, hailed from County Cork and played in both the first ever Test against England in and in the historic Ashes match at the Oval in He was joined by John Blackham, of Irish descent, who kept wicket in both games and like Horan became Australian captain. Another cricketer with Irish blood was Bill O'Reilly who was considered by Bradman to be the best bowler he ever faced.

His Irish ancestry was hugely important to O'Reilly. The opening chapter of his autobiography is titled simply "Ireland" and in it he makes glowing references to a number of leading Irish nationalists, including "the celebrated Eamon de Valera," "the ill-fated young hero," Robert Emmett and "the great statesman," Daniel O'Connell. In a biography of O'Reilly, written by Richard Whitington, a whole chapter is given to the Irish antecedents not only of the subject himself but also of Stan McCabe.

His grandparents emigrated to Australia in the s. The son of a barber, McCabe was known to be proficient at either hook, cut or drive.

The Australian cricket historian Jack Pollard notes that "he scored with a freedom that made other batsmen look hacks. The stroke play of McCabe is said to have brought tears to Don Bradman's eyes when he saw him score a double century against England in His innings at Sydney in though brought the year-old to everyone's attention. He is what he is. To Morgan. He thinks, a lot, about what it is to be a captain, about his own needs and those of his team, about the people management side and the human resources side and the psychologist side, about what sort of captain he wants to be.

In that game, Middlesex beat Kent by 47 runs and Morgan won praise for his harnessing of bowlers and field placement, both distinctive characteristics of his leadership styles in the later years. Both Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid would vouch for that. Rashid has to his name, of which have arrived with Morgan at the helm. No better appraisal of his man-management skills than Moeen calling him the best captain he has played under. Similarly, he channels the best out of Rashid, who he briefed not to worry about leaking runs in exchange for wickets.

Moeen and Rashid are just examples. And then when he stopped, and I started, we wanted to talk as a team. But nobody started to say anything. And I turned around, and he was still there. So I politely showed him the door. The incident illustrates multiple layers of his persona. Second, it demonstrated his courage, a trait that is the polestar of his English team. He and Strauss go back to their Middlesex days, he was picked in England squad for the first time in his tenure, was made captain under his supervision, he keeps referring to the debt of gratitude he owes Strauss, but to tell the boss to leave the room, screams of his ability to draw the line between personal and professional lives.

Third, he gets what he wants, be it freedom, licence, or personnel. He is persuasive that way, in that he could persuade the board to preserve cross-format players for white-ball cricket, even at the expense of missing important Test series.

Like Moeen Ali, who was flown back to England in the middle of a Test series in India so that he is fresh for white-ball leg. He gets a full-strength for that series while his best friend and Test captain Joe Root had to manoeuvre with a largely second string.

Like his vision to embolden English cricket, even if it meant losing games for achieving their vision. There is no dilly-dallying or half-measures.

He firmly stood by his decision to not travel to Bangladesh after a terror strike in , though it many in the board livid, including Strauss. He firmly stood by his decision to not reintegrate Alex Hales after he was found to have used recreational drugs.

Behind the fiercely-lit torch of ambition is a lurking fear of failure, to be not like the stereotypical futilely firebrand tragic Irish hero. The gift of Morgan that Rashid likes the most is his emotions, or how he shackles them.

If things are not going well with a team or a bowler or a batsman, you never see him down or throwing his hands around. He is very level-headed.

And even probably to the point where they would definitely look down on you if you mentioned it. A few comments you'd get was always around, 'why are you playing an English sport, British sport? I might get called cocky, over-confident or getting carried away, but there's no harm in shooting for the lights.

Irish cricket was completely amateur and a million miles away from turning professional or getting enough fixtures to improve their cricket. Morgan recalled that travelling around the country for matches included going north of the border during their height of some of the troubles in Ireland.

So experiences of that and associating cricket with British or English sport always reminisces with me when I think about travel up to the north in the middle of the summer. His ODI performances for Ireland saw him easily transition into the England side, becoming the fifth player to represent the two countries, and a Test call followed in