Cricket - Sri Lanka v England - Fifth One-Day International - Colombo, Sri Lanka - October 23, 2018. England's Eoin Morgan walks around the ground with water bottles. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
(Reuters) - England's limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan said switching focus to one-day international (ODI) cricket had helped to raise the bar of the sport in the country with the team looking at the Ashes and World Cup on home soil as equally important.
England are the number-one ranked team in ODIs and are hosts for the 2019 World Cup, a tournament they have never won, which begins on May 30. The first of five Ashes tests against Australia starts on Aug. 1.
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