<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Eoin Morgan said extending his England career would have made him feel "an imposter" as the World Cup-winning captain retired from international cricket on Tuesday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Morgan, who will continue to play domestic cricket, announced the end of his time as an international player at Lord's, the scene of England's 2019 50-over World Cup triumph.</div><div><br></div><div>The 35-year-old batsman oversaw England's transformation from a side that suffered a woeful first-round exit at the 2015 World Cup to one-day kings four years later.</div><div><br></div><div>Dublin-born Morgan bows out as England's all-time leading run-scorer in one-day international and Twenty20 cricket with 6,957 and 2,458 runs respectively.</div><div><br></div><div>His tally of 225 ODI appearances and 115 in T20Is are also England records.</div><div><br></div><div>But Morgan has made just two fifties from his past 28 international innings across the two white-ball formats and was twice out for nought during England's recent ODI series away to the Netherlands.</div><div><br></div><div>He awoke in Amsterdam last Monday knowing his time as an England cricketer was up and missed the final match of the series with a groin injury.</div><div><br></div><div>Neither the thought of one last England appearance, or the prospect of staying on until the T20 World Cup in Australia later this year, held any appeal for Morgan.</div><div><br></div><div>"It goes against everything I stand for, I just would have felt like an imposter," he said, when asked about an England farewell appearance.</div><div><br></div><div>"I'm very happy with my decision. The day it hit me I was emotional, it was a difficult day, but since then I've been very content. I'd reached the end of the road.</div><div><br></div><div>"The World Cup is in October and the feeling that day, it felt a million miles away."</div><div><br></div><div>Morgan has been planning for retirement and will now join Sky television to commentate on his former team-mates during England's white-ball matches against India and South Africa next month.</div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime, he wants to make a clean break with the England set-up, giving new white-ball coach Matthew Mott and his successor as captain a free hand.</div><div><br></div><div>But he could yet take up a future off-field role in cricket, with Morgan already studying for a post-graduate diploma in strategic leadership, reports AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>He added that I don't spend a lot of time in the boardroom, so I don't know how that would work, but I'm doing a course at the moment to allow me to sit on a board at some stage.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>