Morgan retires.

Yes it is a sad day and he has been a real pioneer captain for England. But whatever you say about it being a team game it is still a largely individual game made up of many 1:1 challenges within a team game. And unfortunately his individual performances have dropped away over the past two years. But he has earned his place as a wonderful captain and I wonder if some of the conversations that have been going around have centred around him remaining in the team because of his captaincy because the quality in the team has been able to “carry” a player on a bad run. But I suspect he’s a very proud captain and made the decision himself after the failures against The Netherlands.

Whatever well done to him I’m sure we will see him in and around the England white ball squads in some capacity or other.

I think the transformative nature of his captaincy has overshadowed what a significant player he's been.  His record speaks for himself but he was also a genuine ground breaker and innovator.  We'd never had anyone who batted like that before. He deserves to be remembered as a genuine batting pioneer.  I was at Old Trafford when he pummelled all those 6s against Afghanistan in the World Cup and it's easy to forget now that we came into that game under a lot of pressure after a poor start to the tournament and that Afghanistan briefly added to that pressure with early wickets.  I've never seen anyone look so effortless in destroying a bowling attack than Morgan did that day.