Trescothick goes home!

[Burma's Finest]

Marcus Trescothick has left the England squad in Australia and is flying home immediately. Reports are that Alastair Cook will open the innings and Ian Bell will likely bat at number three. Additionally, it appears as if Trescothick's replacement will be chosen from either Robert Key or Ed Joyce.

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[Adarsh]

A blessing in disguise for England IMO. Cook, Bell and Collingwood deserve to be in the Test team. Trescothick's lost it.

 

[JamesyJames3]

Huge blow in my opinion. Trescothick was the experience in the side we needed with Vaughan not playing and Giles likely to miss out. Strauss is probably now consistantly our most experienced test player (a player who only joined the squad himself 2 years ago). Although I don't believe one player can cause England to lose the series, this is likely to have a huge effect on the team.

This also opens the way for Vaughan. I said a couple days back I couldn't see him playing unless their were mass injuries. How times change. As soon as he is fit, I expect him to come into the side. Especially if England are down in the series.

 

[evertonfan]

Stress related illness my eye! :

Tres has let England down once again and I hope the England squad don't pick him again for a long time. The way he keeps toying around with the England mangement and picking and choosing which games he plays and which he doesn't has infuriated with me. He's a liability, and it just makes me more angry that he pulls out with less than a fortnight to go until the first test.

 

[CricketFan999]

I'm going to quote what I said in the Ashes thread:

You people ask why he waited so long? This isn't something like a a broken bone where you can moniter it's progress and make decisions accordingly. This is a mental illness, I'm thinking something along the lines of Depression. Anything like that can't be monitered. One moment he could be fine and the next he could be shattered. My guess is that he felt fine to go on the tour but two innings out of the runs made him nervous or what have you which would of brought him crashing down. Theres nothing anyone could of done to stop it or predict it. He could of been (and probably was) as mentally fit as anyone else was when they left, but it just snapped for him.

I hope he can get over it, not just for cricket but himself personally.

You are being (in my eyes) extremely harsh to someone is obviosuly very ill and knowing that still risked his mental health for the good of the team. It may not of panned out but he risked it and no one has the right to have a go at him if he is in such obvious mental trouble.

 

[barmyarmy]

He's never played well against the Aussies but I still feel he's a critical player. He has the experience whereas I worry that some of the newer players will bottle it under pressure.

 

[Sureshot]

Over 400 runs in last years Ashes suggests to the contrary Colin. He's not done well before, but he did very well last time out.

 

[Skater]

Over 400 runs in last years Ashes suggests to the contrary Colin. He's not done well before, but he did very well last time out.

I agree. He consistently got England off to a good start in their innings by making half centuries. Questions will be raised, but I hope he returns next summer.

 

[Stephen Bailey]

Stress related illness my eye! :

Tres has let England down once again and I hope the England squad don't pick him again for a long time. The way he keeps toying around with the England mangement and picking and choosing which games he plays and which he doesn't has infuriated with me. He's a liability, and it just makes me more angry that he pulls out with less than a fortnight to go until the first test.

I'm sorry Matt, but you're talking crap. Please, please do some research on mental illness/health/disability before making a post like that. It's a rather touchy subject as my brother has a mental disability. Mental health is an extremely complicated subject, as CricketFan explained, so for your own good, do some reading up on it.

Let's hope he come overcome this and return to cricket.

 

[Simbazz]

The way i see it is that he is a key member of the England side, and one of the best openers for England in many years. We shouldnt dwell on it too much as this way Cook can move up the order to open with Strauss, which will help Cook because playing with AS will help his game as technically AS is great!

I believe the only options as far as the number 3 position is Robert Key or Ed Joyce....For me its Key, he has the experience and can really be some use out there in Australia.

 

[Skater]

The way i see it is that he is a key member of the England side, and one of the best openers for England in many years. We shouldnt dwell on it too much as this way Cook can move up the order to open with Strauss, which will help Cook because playing with AS will help his game as technically AS is great!

I believe the only options as far as the number 3 position is Robert Key or Ed Joyce....For me its Key, he has the experience and can really be some use out there in Australia.

They don't need to play. Alastair Cook, Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood were all fighting for two places in the team... now they can all play!

 

[evertonfan]

I'm sorry Matt, but you're talking crap. Please, please do some research on mental illness/health/disability before making a post like that. It's a rather touchy subject as my brother has a mental disability. Mental health is an extremely complicated subject, as CricketFan explained, so for your own good, do some reading up on it.

Let's hope he come overcome this and return to cricket.

Fair enough, my post was a little ignorant but i'm a bit disapointed that he keeps leaving us. He's a key member of the side but maybe he should take a year out or something like that becuase I think that would be more beneficial to both himself and England, rather than him keep pulling out like this. He won't feel too good about abandoning his teammates and his teammates won't feel good about missing their best opener.

Sorry if my post offended everyone.

 

[Simbazz]

Stress related illness my eye! :

Tres has let England down once again and I hope the England squad don't pick him again for a long time. The way he keeps toying around with the England mangement and picking and choosing which games he plays and which he doesn't has infuriated with me. He's a liability, and it just makes me more angry that he pulls out with less than a fortnight to go until the first test.

This is utter non-sense!

The illness Tresco is suffering from sounds like it is not only affecting him, but his performances....it has made him fall out of love with the game as he has said, he just cant play when he feels the way he does, yes it sounds like depression!

As an international cricketer, the demands they have to go through is extrodenary! They away from their natural surroundings for at least 6 months of a year, sometimes more! Tresco would have got on the plane to Australia feeling on top of the world, and something just snapped, wether it was due to lows scores or just missing home, no one knows, but if he wasn't in the best frame of mind to be playing against the state sides, how would he preform against Australia!

***just read your post which was posted during the time i typed this, my feelings of your first post stands***

 

[evertonfan]

I believe the only options as far as the number 3 position is Robert Key or Ed Joyce....For me its Key, he has the experience and can really be some use out there in Australia.

So your just going to just brush Collingwood/Bell/Cook to one side after all they have done for us this summer?!

 

[Stephen Bailey]

Fair enough, my post was a little ignorant but i'm a bit disapointed that he keeps leaving us. He's a key member of the side but maybe he should take a year out or something like that becuase I think that would be more beneficial to both himself and England, rather than him keep pulling out like this. He won't feel too good about abandoning his teammates and his teammates won't feel good about missing their best opener.

Sorry if my post offended everyone.

No problem.

For what it's worth I think you're right about him taking more time off. Hopefully, for his sake more than anything, he will get over this and will return to cricket, at whatever level that happens to be.