Eoin Morgan backs Ben Stokes for England Test captaincy, guidelines himself out of competition

England white-ball skipper Eoin Morgan has dominated himself out of Test captaincy competition, as an alternative providing his backing to Ben Stokes.

Morgan led England to a title win within the 2019 50-over World Cup (Photo: Reuters)

HIGHLIGHTSMorgan mentioned he “wouldn’t have any interest” in changing into Test skipperMorgan has backed Ben Stokes as probably the most appropriate candidateMorgan led England to a title win within the 2019 50-over World Cup

England’s World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan dominated himself out of the race of changing into the subsequent males’s Test captain whereas backing all-rounder Ben Stokes to take up the job after Joe Root’s resignation earlier in April. Morgan rallied England to a title win within the 2019 50-over World Cup. The consequence was a fruits of a exceptional turnaround of the crew’s white-ball type following a disastrous group-stage exit in 2015.

“Absolutely not, no. I’m very happy with the role that I play within the white-ball team and English cricket at the moment. It has been the part of my career that I’m most proud of. My career is firmly focused on World Cups, and hopefully sustaining what we’ve built over the last six years is probably going to be the most important part of what I leave behind eventually. I haven’t played red-ball cricket for a long time. I wouldn’t have any interest in the job. I would be no good at it,” Morgan informed Sky Sports.

Morgan, who performed a Test match in February 2012 towards Pakistan in Dubai, has backed Stokes to take the function of captaining England within the longest format of the sport.

“Obviously, Ben is a fantastic player, a brilliant leader, though he doesn’t need to have the captain’s armband on to lead like he does. The experience of the World Cup final here (at Lord’s) really showed his true colours in the way that he led from start to finish – and throughout the whole tournament as well,” he mentioned.

“He’d certainly be a candidate. I think it would be hard to turn down the captaincy. It’s a privileged position to be in. Obviously, circumstances have to be right, but most people who want to take red-ball cricket forward would like to take it on.”

Morgan revealed that he had a gathering with the brand new ECB managing director of males’s cricket, Rob Key and felt that splitting teaching roles on the premise of codecs could be the street forward as England geared as much as appoint the subsequent coaches for the lads’s crew. “Just the demands of the game as a whole now is huge, there is almost no break. It’s such a big ask for one man to do the job.”

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