Cricket shot
Ok, just a quickie before I head to the land of nod because I'm very tired after my 3 hour run after work tonight. (Yes, three hours).
What a wonderful start to England's summer of cricket today. I think any English supporter would have settled for 318-3 at stumps.
But it isn't actually a cricket shot I'm going to write about - it's an anagram of cricket shot: Trescothick. What a fabulous return to test match cricket for the man from Keynsham.
I guess we'll never know the real reason why he returned home from India so abruptly. The official line that he "picked up a virus" can't have cut much ice with anyone, certainly not yours truly. It is well reported that he left the field of a warm-up match in India in tears, and then caught the next flight home. Well I'm sorry but no one leaves the field crying because they feel a bit poorly (although I was in some distress tonight when the hunger pangs really set in).
The bottom line of that for me, is it's nobody else's business why he came home, and he's well within his rights to keep it hidden from the media. I also think that anyone who loves English cricket as much as I do won't care much anyway - having him back in the team is all that counts now.
So to see him score a hundred at Lords was fairytale stuff. Not quite on a par with Graham Thorpe's hundred at the Oval on his return in 2003, but still good.
I was lucky enough to see Tres play in a one-day match at Bath for Somerset against Sussex just before he made his debut for England in 2000. He was playing in the same match as Michael Bevan, at the time the world's number one limited-overs batsman. There really was nothing between them - such wonderful strikers of the ball. The one thing that stood out about Marcus was his size and power. I remember thinking how England would be a better team with him in it, and how right I was.
I hope his problems, whatever they were, are behind him now and he goes on to play for England for a few years yet. In fact it wouldn't surprise me one iota if he went on to break Graham Gooch's record of test runs for England and Alec Stewart's record of the most capped player.
Copyright © Jonathan Weedon, May 2006
What a wonderful start to England's summer of cricket today. I think any English supporter would have settled for 318-3 at stumps.
But it isn't actually a cricket shot I'm going to write about - it's an anagram of cricket shot: Trescothick. What a fabulous return to test match cricket for the man from Keynsham.
I guess we'll never know the real reason why he returned home from India so abruptly. The official line that he "picked up a virus" can't have cut much ice with anyone, certainly not yours truly. It is well reported that he left the field of a warm-up match in India in tears, and then caught the next flight home. Well I'm sorry but no one leaves the field crying because they feel a bit poorly (although I was in some distress tonight when the hunger pangs really set in).
The bottom line of that for me, is it's nobody else's business why he came home, and he's well within his rights to keep it hidden from the media. I also think that anyone who loves English cricket as much as I do won't care much anyway - having him back in the team is all that counts now.
So to see him score a hundred at Lords was fairytale stuff. Not quite on a par with Graham Thorpe's hundred at the Oval on his return in 2003, but still good.
I was lucky enough to see Tres play in a one-day match at Bath for Somerset against Sussex just before he made his debut for England in 2000. He was playing in the same match as Michael Bevan, at the time the world's number one limited-overs batsman. There really was nothing between them - such wonderful strikers of the ball. The one thing that stood out about Marcus was his size and power. I remember thinking how England would be a better team with him in it, and how right I was.
I hope his problems, whatever they were, are behind him now and he goes on to play for England for a few years yet. In fact it wouldn't surprise me one iota if he went on to break Graham Gooch's record of test runs for England and Alec Stewart's record of the most capped player.
Copyright © Jonathan Weedon, May 2006
posted by Jon | 10:48 pm
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