5 players who moved from Associate to Full Member nation

1. Eoin Morgan (Ireland to England)

Who would have thought when a 16-year-old left-hander was making his debut for Ireland that he’d one day, go on and do what no English captain has never done: Lift the World Cup. Eoin Morgan has forever etched his name into the annals of not only World Cup history as one of the trophy-holding captains but also in the folklore of the English cricket.

Morgan will forever be remembered for bringing in a paradigm shift into the white-ball culture by finally breaking the shackles of the tentative- almost out of sync with the demands of the modern-day- mindset that had long plagued English cricket. Morgan, just like his compatriot Ed Joyce always had aspirations of playing for a full-membered nation.

After scoring heavily in the 2009 World Cup qualifiers in South Africa, one that ensured Ireland’s qualification in the 2011 World Cup. His last game for Ireland came on April 15, 2009, where he racked up 62-ball 76 to help his side notch up a six-wicket win. By then, Morgan had stayed at Middlesex long enough to qualify for England and the southpaw made his debut for the 3 Lions in an ODI against West Indies. Ten years later, he, along with his teammates were basking in World Cup glory at the Mecca of Cricket- Lord’s.