CRICKETERS from Ireland

1. Eoin Morgan (b. 1986)

With an HPI of 25.40, Eoin Morgan is the most famous Irish Cricketer.  His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.

Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan (born 10 September 1986) is an Irish and English former cricketer and current commentator. He captained the England cricket team in limited overs cricket from 2015 until his international retirement in June 2022. He is widely considered as one of the greatest ever captains of England. Under his captaincy, England won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, the first time they won the tournament, along with reaching the finals of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20, where the team lost to the West Indies by 4 wickets. Morgan was a member of the England team that won the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. A left-handed batsman, Morgan played county cricket for Middlesex and England's Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20I) teams. He previously played for the Ireland cricket team (the country of his birth) in ODIs, and was the first player to score an ODI hundred for two nations. After Alastair Cook was removed from the ODI captaincy on 19 December 2014, Morgan was named as the England captain for the 2015 Cricket World Cup, having already captained England in ODIs and T20Is as a stand-in. He is the only England captain to have scored more than 4 ODI centuries. As of June 2025, Morgan is the most-capped player for England in ODI matches, as well as the second all-time top scorer in both ODIs and T20s, behind Joe Root and Jos Buttler respectively. During the 2019 ICC World Cup he scored the highest number of sixes in an ODI innings, with 17 sixes against Afghanistan. In March 2021, Morgan became the first male cricketer for England to play in 100 T20Is (57 as captain), in the third match against India. On 13 February 2023, he announced his retirement from all forms of the game.