Morgan aiming to shoot down Zimbabwe

EOIN MORGAN knew the Cricket World Cup was a big deal but he never realised how big until a platoon of guards armed with sub-machine guns trooped into the team hotel.

This wasn’t the West Indies in 2007. It was Bangladesh in 2004 where 16-year old Morgan was part of an Ireland side that fell just four runs short of toppling the West Indies and 49 runs short of the Australians.

Despite those achievements, the education off the pitch stood to Morgan every bit as much as the lessons learnt on it in a competition where crowds of 10-15,000 routinely clicked through the turnstiles.