No thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, all sporting activities have come to a grinding halt all over the world. It has affected cricket as well, as many bilateral series and the Indian Premier League 2020 has been postponed to a later date.
England’s white-ball skipper Eoin Morgan was slated to travel to Kolkata to join the Kolkata Knight Riders who picked him in the auction in December 2019. The tournament was slated to begin from March 29, however, it was postponed until April 15 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But this pandemic has given Morgan more time to spend with his new-born baby and he is glad to do so.
IPL 2020: "Looking forward to helping Karthik in whatever way I can with KKR", says Morgan
"It's a very strange time for everybody at the moment. For us (him and his wife Tara Morgan), we have a new-born baby at home. He's just three weeks old so we've been very lucky that we're getting the best out of this bad situation. I've been able to spend a lot of time with him. Everybody's goal is to hopefully not contract the virus and then come out of the other side healthy, along with the rest of the family," the official website of KKR quoted Morgan as saying.
Eoin and wife Tara became parents on 9th March and named the baby boy Leo Louis Oliver Morgan.
"It's been amazing! It's very difficult to describe until you go through it. Everybody says that, and we were waiting on his arrival to know if that was true. But it's such a unique feeling that you don't experience anywhere else. I must have changed almost thousands of nappies by now but I am loving it. Thoroughly enjoying it now," he added.
The Kolkata franchise is led by Dinesh Karthik and he received praise from England’s first-ever World Cup-winning men’s captain.
"I have spoken to DK a lot and I met up with him just before Christmas when I was out in Mumbai. He's a fantastic guy, a great cricketer and I'm looking forward to helping him in whatever way I can. While I'm here to help, I also want to learn as much as I can from him. There are a lot of dynamics about being a captain when you're playing in India that I don't know about, I'll be picking his brain the whole time," Morgan said.
"I'll naturally be myself and try to give as much as I can just like the rest of the international players. But it's going to be fascinating to see how and when we get to play and how the competition lines up. Because everybody is going to come out of isolation extremely excited, rearing to go, batting, bowling, fielding the whole lot," he added.
(ANI inputs)
