Eoin Morgan finds IPL helpful as a cricketer – Cricket News Update
England’s middle-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Eoin-Joseph-Gerard-Morgan-c56032, feels that the decision to render his services for the fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was justified as he had lost his place in the Test team.
The 25-year-old has been a part of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) since the last couple of seasons but he failed to get even a single game this year, although the left-hander remained with the franchise throughout the event.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) never encourages its players to play the cash-rich league and there is a school of thought that this was the reason behind Kevin Pietersen’s sudden retirement from the game’s shorter formats.
The Ireland-born cricketer’s decision was slammed in the British media as some of the analysts wanted Morgan to play County cricket, instead of IPL.
While justifying his decision to go to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817, the left-hander expressed that he has always learnt a lot by playing franchise cricket in the sub-continent, because the conditions are quite different and challenging.
"Every time I have gone to the IPL I have always come back a better player. If I had been in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 tour squad and one position away from a game I would have maybe considered my options and come back and played some Championship cricket,” Morgan expressed.
The former Irish cricketer wishes to play for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 in all three versions of the game. The aggressive batsman is an integral part of the Poms’ limited-overs squad but lost his place in the Test team earlier this year.
However, the upcoming One Day International series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 will be a good opportunity for him to prove his worth and make his way back to Test cricket.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Morgan-c77707 revealed that Sri Lankan veterans Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara are his role models because of their consistent performance in all formats.
The middle-order batsman added, “The guys you aspire to be like, the very greats of the game are brilliant at all forms of cricket, guys like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KC-Sangakkara-c1779."
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