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    Trescothick takes step backwards

    By Will 5 months ago Leave a comment on this post

    Update March 22, 2008
    Trescothick retires from internationals

    The news came through (or rather was beadily spotted by yours truly) at about 3am this morning that Marcus Trescothick had withdrawn from Somerset’s tour of UAE. He made it as far as the plane but it was decided, by him, that he should return home to be with his family.

    It’s a desperate situation, and it now seems increasingly unlikely that he’ll ever play for England again. Such is the brilliance of the internet that when I told our man in New Zealand about the news, he broke it to England’s media man. Unsurprisingly it was brought up in the post-match press conference after the third day’s play in Wellington:

    However, Paul Collingwood, speaking on behalf of the England team in New Zealand, said that Trescothick’s career should be the last thing on anyone’s mind right now. “It’s just really sad,” said Collingwood. “I think he should just forget about the cricket, to be honest. I just want Marcus to get himself right and forget about whether he is going to play for England again or to go away with Somerset.

    “We just need to get him right, for his own sake really,” added Collingwood. “We can be very selfish and ask whether he will ever play for England again, but it doesn’t really matter because we need to get him right. All of our thoughts go out to him.”

    Previous info on his “stress-related illness” here, here and here.

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    3 Responses to “Trescothick takes step backwards”

  • raxar wrote:
    March 16th, 2008 at 12.24 am

    The first step to reclaiming Tresco is for everyone to shut up about him. No more stories about his stress. No more stories about his form. No more stories about his ’stress’ written in such a way to portray him as some sort of wimp.

    If anyone had been under the same level of scrutiny that he’s been under, they’d be ill too.

  • Will wrote:
    March 16th, 2008 at 6.20 am

    You’re probably right, Raxar, but those in the public eye will always attract attention - regardless of their situation. Most of the media spotlight - if not all - has been entirely sympathetic, only occasionally drifting into irritated confusion at the sporadic nature of his illness. I don’t think it has contributed to the situation whatsoever; this has, in his own admission, gone on for years.

  • Tom wrote:
    March 16th, 2008 at 11.54 am

    It is just time to leave Marcus to his own devices, by reporting every set back on his recovery aren’t we just helping make it worse. Instead of focusing on players like Trescothick and Flintoff coming back into the side, focus on the players we have now.
    It does ask the question though are England playing too much cricket, Trescothick can not play abroad, Harmison obviously finds the pressure difficult, is there a pattern?

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