There were fewer than eight months between Eoin Morgan’s pair of retirement announcements, the first from international cricket last summer and then, on Monday morning, from all forms of the game.
The tributes to a magnificent international career were written last June, salutes to a two-time World Cup winner and England’s all-time leading run-scorer across both T20 and ODI formats, though the former record has since been surpassed by his successor as captain, Jos Buttler.