{"id":3947,"date":"2022-06-27T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=230210"},"modified":"2022-06-27T17:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:19:41","slug":"eion-morgan-set-to-step-down-as-international-cricket-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/eion-morgan-set-to-step-down-as-international-cricket-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Eion Morgan set to step down as international cricket captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seven and a half years in command, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Eoin+Morgan\">Eoin Morgan<\/a> is likely to retire as England\u2019s white-ball captain and exit international cricket on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He succeeded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Alastair+Cook\">Alastair Cook<\/a> as England\u2019s captain immediately before the 2015 ODI world cup, and even though the campaign wasn\u2019t successful, he did soon lead England\u2019s comeback alongside head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Trevor+Bayliss\">Trevor Bayliss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan has had quite a great career, which resulted in England winning the ODI world cup in 2019. However, due to his recent form and level of fitness, he has started to consider about his next step.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan has been struggling with terrible form for a period, and in addition, he was skipped over in last year\u2019s IPL auction. He caught a few ducks during his last two matches for England against the Netherlands. He has only reached two half \u2013 centuries over his last 28 white-ball cricket international outings.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Netherlands series, Morgan had told Sky Sports,\u00a0\u201cIf I don\u2019t think I am good enough or I don\u2019t feel I am contributing to the team, then I will finish\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With his 10,859 runs in international games, Morgan has transformed England\u2019s ODI team from a ponderous victim to an assertive, irresistible side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Morgan does decide to retire, Jos Buttler is likely to be appointed as the ODI captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[807,3036,1525],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-eion-morgan","tag-england-cricket","tag-international-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}