Fletcher belives Tresco’s return for ODI is unlikely http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,18375389-23210,00.html?from=rss

I don’t think that it would have stayed secret (even this long) if it had been one of the more well-known and/or colourful members of the team. I think that Tres has escaped this long because frankly, (and this sounds harsh), no-one really cares all that much, bar a few cricket die hards. Would it have stayed quiet if it had been Vaughan or Flintoff? Don’t think so, personally. During the summer, when every man, his wife and her hairdresser were into the cricket, how many pictures did we see of Andrew and Rachel Flintoff, KP and [insert name of minor 'celebrity' here], or Simon Jones compared with Tres? The tabloids are only interested in either the people that they know everyone has heard of, or those who are most likely to provide a couple of column-inches of gossip. Some of them, of course, bring a lot of it on themselves (*cough* Warne *cough*).

Ha! no, no, not the tabloids, Pratik, but cricket. For once, it just nice to see private things stay private. Thank God someone can keep their mouth shut.

I think that Tres is perceived as being a harmless type who has been England’s most consistent run scorer pretty much since he came into the team and deserves to be left alone. What with Vaughan, Strauss and (almost) Freddie missing tests for births, people have realised that the life of a cricketer is not all roses, and they should not be expected to sacrifice their family for their “country”. Sometimes even cricketers have to get their priorities straight. After Thorpey’s calamitous marriage/cricket collision, perhaps there is a little more sympathy for cricketers, especially as they are basically the opposite of footballers, all but shunning the limelight. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I can’t really picture Hoggy and the King of Spain being busted roasting Chantelle from Big Brother, but I wouldn’t be surprised by Rio Ferdinand and Frank Lampard doing the same.

if it were in India, we would have had the whole story whether marcus likes it or not…

stupid british journalists

I hope Marcus sorts out whatever the problem is. I was trying to guess what it may be. It’s a bit of an old classic to pin it on the domestic issue. Maybe ‘personal reasons’ is a bit of a whitewash. But no more speculation. He’s a damn good batter for England. The blokes who have come into the breach have done great, but Marcus is da man. So huge hugs from us big guy, and all the best for the rest of 2006.

The Tabloid press will have no doubt found out what the problem is - having worked in the field, there is no way that they wouldn’t have.

The reason they aren’t printing it is that it won’t sell papers - there is no ‘tawdry’ story to tell.

If it was something more along the lines of KP or Warne or whoever getting their end away - it would have been in the papers the very next day, the fact that Banger is ‘boring’ is irrelevent, were Lee Bowyer or Jon Woodgate ‘interesting’ before their scrapping?

Character assassination of anyone (except maybe the queen) is not out of bounds if it will sell a paper.

TRESCO is perhaps the most consistent batsman in da english team you never would’ve seen him not playing a game ,wether against a weak side or a strong side so u cannot say that he has let england down .The bottomline is that “he had to return at the wrong time when the skipper wasn’t in the team as well”

I stumbled across this page having come in this morning half way through a discussion between the commentators about tres and personal reasons and wondering who had actually said what. Reading the stuff about a virus, it reminded me of a colleague who returned home years ago after having a breakdown which sounded a bit similar and which was eventually put down to side effects of the anti-malarial drug larium - which tres would probably be taking in india. I don’t much care if this is the correct explanation or not - whatever the cause it’s obviously not an easy time for him, and I think it’s entirely his business. The point is that if this were the cause it may be that he didn’t know himself at the time, the symptoms are a bit flu-like, and the tabloids would not give enough space to actually explain the issue.

So… he’s not gay then and his wife just found out?

That is a lie…the truth is that Pietersen slept with his wife and now Marcus finds it impossible to share the dressing room with him.

I’ve heard that he is shagging Michael Vaughan’s missus. This started about the time of Ashes 2005 and if you look at it since then, have they ever played together??? Very interesting but heard from a very good source!!!!

I shouldn’t come on here and say this but Tresco’s mrs was shagging Kevin Shine. Shine was coach at sommerset and got to know resco’s mrs and when he was away with england Shine used to get friendly.

Also since it happened Shine although being contracted by the ECB as a bowling coach has slipped away from the scene with no real reason and Alan Donald has been brought in.

Fishy hey!

And apparently they thought Shine would be better suited to work with the academy or some crap.

See theer you go, dont know if its already on the net but thats what happened.

This is all what I have heard and is not necessarily true im just saying what ive been told