There are two defining features of the patch of ground where Eoin Morgan played much of his earliest cricket that tell us much about the way he has since developed. On a modest housing estate in the small town of Rush, 20 miles up the Fingal coast from Dublin, Morgan first learnt the game with his three brothers and two sisters on a narrow strip of concrete at the end of the terrace on the cul-de-sac where his family lived, with a large expanse of open grass beyond. The Morgans lived in the second house on the terrace so they were only a few strides away from their makeshift cricket ground and, with two adults and six children in a three-bedroom house, there was every…

Source: The Times May 28, 2019 15:56 UTC