Trescothick flies home
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:42 pmThis is from the BBC -
Trescothick flies home
Somerset's Marcus Trescothick has had to fly home from the Champions League Twenty20 in India after a recurrence of his stress-related illness.
The former England opener, 33, will play no further part in the event where Somerset have reached the second phase.
"Marcus has made a great effort to travel to India," said Somerset director of cricket Brian Rose.
"Regrettably it has not worked out for him and he has travelled back to England to rejoin his family."
Rose added in a statement on the club website: "The club and all his team mates have fully appreciated this effort and personal commitment and look forward to further success on his behalf."
Trescothick, who will captain Somerset next season, scored 17 runs in his two innings in the tournament as they beat Deccan Chargers and lost to Trinidad & Tobago but qualified for the next phase.
Struggles with depression forced him to return home early from two England tours - the first to India in February 2006, and then to Australia in November that year - after making what proved to be his final England appearance in September.
After he then collapsed at Heathrow Airport in March 2008 while waiting to fly out with Somerset for a pre-season tour to the United Arab Emirates, he formally announced his retirement from international cricket.
Later that year, while being interviewed on the BBC's Test Match Special as his autobiography Coming Back To Me was launched, Keynsham-born Trescothick revealed that he had suffered anxiety attacks since the age of 10.
Although England have struggled to find an aggressive opening batsman for limited-overs cricket since his retirement, Trescothick has twice rejected appeals by successive England captains Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Strauss to come out of his self-imposed international exile.
"I know in my heart that the dangers to my health of committing myself to all that goes with international cricket off the field are just too great," he said after turning down the chance to play in this year's ICC World Twenty20 tournament.
He enjoyed a marvellous 2009 county season with Somerset, scoring nearly 3,000 runs in all competitions and being named as the Professional Cricketers' Association's player of the year and most valuable player of the year.
With Somerset having qualified for the Champions League in India as losing finalists in the domestic Twenty20 Cup, he admitted that his decision to tour abroad for the first time in three years was a risk.
"I know the risk and I know what happens when it goes wrong," he told BBC World Service.
"I can only try. It's a big competition for the players and for the club. I have got to try and make it happen."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 309627.stm
Trescothick flies home
Somerset's Marcus Trescothick has had to fly home from the Champions League Twenty20 in India after a recurrence of his stress-related illness.
The former England opener, 33, will play no further part in the event where Somerset have reached the second phase.
"Marcus has made a great effort to travel to India," said Somerset director of cricket Brian Rose.
"Regrettably it has not worked out for him and he has travelled back to England to rejoin his family."
Rose added in a statement on the club website: "The club and all his team mates have fully appreciated this effort and personal commitment and look forward to further success on his behalf."
Trescothick, who will captain Somerset next season, scored 17 runs in his two innings in the tournament as they beat Deccan Chargers and lost to Trinidad & Tobago but qualified for the next phase.
Struggles with depression forced him to return home early from two England tours - the first to India in February 2006, and then to Australia in November that year - after making what proved to be his final England appearance in September.
After he then collapsed at Heathrow Airport in March 2008 while waiting to fly out with Somerset for a pre-season tour to the United Arab Emirates, he formally announced his retirement from international cricket.
Later that year, while being interviewed on the BBC's Test Match Special as his autobiography Coming Back To Me was launched, Keynsham-born Trescothick revealed that he had suffered anxiety attacks since the age of 10.
Although England have struggled to find an aggressive opening batsman for limited-overs cricket since his retirement, Trescothick has twice rejected appeals by successive England captains Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Strauss to come out of his self-imposed international exile.
"I know in my heart that the dangers to my health of committing myself to all that goes with international cricket off the field are just too great," he said after turning down the chance to play in this year's ICC World Twenty20 tournament.
He enjoyed a marvellous 2009 county season with Somerset, scoring nearly 3,000 runs in all competitions and being named as the Professional Cricketers' Association's player of the year and most valuable player of the year.
With Somerset having qualified for the Champions League in India as losing finalists in the domestic Twenty20 Cup, he admitted that his decision to tour abroad for the first time in three years was a risk.
"I know the risk and I know what happens when it goes wrong," he told BBC World Service.
"I can only try. It's a big competition for the players and for the club. I have got to try and make it happen."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 309627.stm
