Former England player Michael Vaughan has recently shared his views on Eoin Morgan if he wants to continue as the white-ball captain. However, Morgan’s poor performance raised questions and seeing that his future too came in doubt prior to the next T20 World Cup after England’s semi-final defeat to New Zealand in this season on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi.
However, England’s death bowling cost them and they eventually lost the game as well. While writing in his column for the Telegraph about this, Michael Vaughan claimed that Eoin Morgan should play as captain for next year’s T20 World Cup if he wants to continue as well.
Vaughan wrote: “The end of a tournament inevitably prompts questions about the future of an England captain but Eoin Morgan should carry on if he feels he has the ambition and appetite to take the team to next year’s Twenty20 World Cup. He has achieved so much with England that he should be left to make whatever decision he feels is right for him and the team. Eoin will know when it is time to move on, you just do as an England captain. It is not up to us to decide.”
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He continued: “Personally, I think his leadership is imperative to the team, especially in Twenty20 cricket. The more I watch T20 cricket the more I realise the importance of leadership. If you have a captain who knows how to manoeuvre his troops, set the right fields and stay level headed under huge pressure then you have a massive advantage as a team. Morgan is superb in tight situations. He never loses his cool. He is impossible to read or rattle. It will be very hard for England to find another captain with his level headedness.”
However, Eoin Morgan has become the most successful T20I skipper, surpassing MS Dhoni and Asghar Afghan and won 43 games in the format. Even, England won the 50-over World Cup under his leadership. While Michael Vaughan added that Morgan needs to improve his batting, but there is no doubt about his captaincy skill.
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“His batting is a concern and he will want to get that back on track but he is an outstanding captain. He and Kane Williamson are the best two in the world. It should not be doom and gloom about England’s defeat. It happens in T20 cricket,” Michael Vaughan concluded.
