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It seems fitting that Roy will be remembered as master of a format that is already dying, the ODI, where his record is all-time top four for England.

Mainly though it is simply his presence, the thrilling certainty of his batting, those early Morgan years when Roy and Alex Hales reinvented how to bat in 50-over cricket.

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