Paul Collingwood hails centurion Eoin Morgan: "It's an amazing achievement"

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Paul Collingwood believes England captain with Eoin Morgan is just getting started after reaching 100 T20 international appearances in the third match of the series against India in Ahmedabad.

The Irishman is the fourth man to reach the landmark, alongside Shoaib Malik, Rohit Sharma and Ross Taylor. Seventeen women have gone into three figures in the 20-over format.

"I genuinely think when he goes, which is hopefully many years down the line, he will leave a legacy," said Collingwood, who gave Morgan his T20I debut in 2009. "I say that because the white-ball cricket in this country has completely changed since that moment when we came back from 2015.

"It's an amazing achievement what he has done to get 100 caps in any format of the game. To do it as captain with 50 – odd appearances as captain under your belt is a fantastic achievement."

Following the disastrous World cup campaign in Australia and New Zealand in 2015, Morgan was given a vote of confidence by then director of England cricket Andrew Strauss and has not looked back.

England are now embarking on attempts to become the first nation to hold both white-ball world titles simultaneously and are top of the ICC rankings in each limited-overs formats.

"The 2015 experience in Australia hit him hard as any experience throughout his career and he wanted to do it his way and he got the opportunity to do so," added Collingwood, speaking in a PCA interview.

Collingwood, a member of Chris Silverwood's backroom team, added: "Morgs has that calmness about him, he makes you feel like you have everything under control. It is so enjoyable to play under that kind of leadership, he is trying to take the training environment out into the middle, so It allows players to have that freedom to express themselves in training.

"His batting is still world-class. The job is not finished and as much success as he's had as captain, he still has plenty to give."

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