eoin morgan is the leading run scorer for england in odi matches.
eoin morgan is the leading run scorer for england in odi matches.
who is the leading run scorer for england in odi matches?
eoin morgan
after alastair cook was removed from the odi captaincy on 19 december 2014, morgan was named as the england captain for the 2015 cricket world cup, having already captained england in odis and t20is as a stand-in. he is the only england captain to have scored more than 4 odi centuries. on 19 june 2018, during the third match of the home odi series against australia, eoin morgan surpassed the record of ian bell as the all-time leading run scorer for england in one day international matches. in the same match morgan also broke the england record for the fastest fifty in odis.
eoin morgan
by the late 1990s the west indian team had begun to decline. it was defeated by australia in a 1994–95 series, the third test of which was played at the queen's park oval, as were two of the odi matches. the ground hosted two tests of the 1997–98 tour by england, the second of which in february saw the west indies defeated by england. the west indian captain during the match, brian lara, went on to be the leading run scorer at the queen's park oval in odi matches, as well as hold record for the highest score made there. the west indies lost heavily again to australia at the ground in 1999, by a margin of 312 runs. this, the opening test of the series, set the tone for a five-nil whitewash of the host team by the visiting australians. the retirement of ambrose and courtney walsh in 2001 further hampered west indian efforts, and they were defeated at the queen's park oval by south africa in march, and india in august 2001. they were likewise defeated in odi matches at the ground by both sides. the west indies dropped to eighth in the test rankings, with another heavy loss at the queen's park oval against england in 2004, amid complaints about the quality of the pitch from england players. the west indies also suffered at the hands of south africa during odi matches played at the ground.
queen's park oval