The rise of Eoin Morgan
In Mail Online , Alan Fraser provides a definitive account that traces Eoin Morgan's development from batting on a concrete pathway in a Dublin courtyard to donning England colours and mowing bowlers to all corners.
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
In Mail Online, Alan Fraser provides a definitive account that traces Eoin Morgan's development from batting on a concrete pathway in a Dublin courtyard to donning England colours and mowing bowlers to all corners.
Running down one side is a pebble-dash wall - sporting a couple of feeble examples of graffiti - which would prevent a left-handed batsman from attempting anything approaching an off drive. He would have little alternative but to cart every ball to leg and towards a play park.
This was where and how the fledgling Eoin Morgan, England's latest batting sensation, spent his winter nights when the grass was sodden - which was most of the time. From those tiny blows could be traced the origins of that six over midwicket which Morgan, 23, smote during the latter stages of last weekend's World Twenty20 final victory over Australia, prompting the notoriously difficult-to-please commentator, Ian Chappell, to remark: 'There's some good English willow around - maybe it's Irish willow.'
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo