Hussain: Revolutionary Morgan is England's greatest white-ball captain

After Eoin Morgan announced his retirement from international cricket, Sky Sports' Nasser Hussain examines the impact the Irishman has had on English white-ball cricket - both as a player and a captain...

Eoin Morgan has had a huge impact on English cricket. It goes without saying that he is England's greatest ever white-ball captain, a World Cup-winning captain.

He changed the culture of English white-ball cricket, not only at the top but all the way through. If you look at where we were at the 2015 World Cup in Australia when we lost to Bangladesh to where we were a few years later and where we are now, the change is remarkable.

It's almost got to a stage where you're not just looking at the players that they pick but the quality of those who are missing out, especially with the bat.

A lot of that is down to the change in culture from Morgan. He's cool, calm and a hugely-respected captain in and out of that team.

He's crystal clear at all times in his thought process. It's a little bit like Brendon McCullum now with the Test team. Morgan learnt a lot from him in that 2015 World Cup, they're very close friends and he spoke to him about how New Zealand were playing at the time and took that on board. But his success comes from that crystal clear approach and never doubting himself.

I interviewed him back in the summer of 2105 at the Ageas Bowl when England were bowled out in 45 overs. Ian Smith and Mikey Holding were in the commentary box talking about batting the overs. I put that to him, and he was not interested in that approach - 'next time we're in this situation, we'll go hard again' - and that's what they did.

Fast forward a couple of years and they were getting a world-record 481 against Australia at Trent