Former England player Eoin Morgan said that the shortest format of cricket ended up saving the sport from irrelevancy. According to the ex-Kolkata Knight Riders captain, in the modern age, if there was no T20 cricket and the franchise leagues, it would really get hard for the sport to make the younger generation care for Tests or ODIs. “I think if the shortest format of the game did not exist, if IPL never happened, if no other franchise leagues in the world did not exist, I think cricket would end up dying in a ditch. The level of popularity would decline. Trying to sell a 5-day game or just a one-day game in particular, to young kids now is very very tough,” Morgan said on Sky Sports. “Selling things to to your kids is very very difficult. But if you can have visibility on this magnificent product that exists to engage young kids in the game, that is your introduction and your pathway into going right. This is a beautiful sport that we play. You …