'People still want to talk to me about the 2005 Ashes': Marcus Trescothick opens up on his 26-year career and England's 最新の (選挙などの)運動をする

  • After almost three 10年間s, Marcus Trescothick's playing career is 近づく its end
  • He has been 招待するd to join England coaching staff for the first two Ashes 実験(する)s?
  • Trescothick says the 移行 into coaching has 解除するd the 圧力 of playing
  • He says it would 'mean the world' to 勝利,勝つ the 郡 選手権 at Somerset?
  • The 43-year-old still takes 広大な/多数の/重要な pride in his 役割 in the iconic 2005 Ashes series??

A new coach with a very familiar 直面する will be pulling on an England tracksuit again on Tuesday to help 準備する for another 割れ目 at the Aussies 14 years after his 主要な 役割 in the greatest Ashes 一連の them all.

Marcus Trescothick, one of the 星/主役にするs of the fabled 2005 series, will be joining coach Trevor Bayliss's staff at Edgbaston for the build-up to the first 実験(する) and will bring all the boyish enthusiasm to his new 役割 that has 示すd his astonishing 26-year playing career.

It is the first big step, at 43, に向かって a new life for one of the most popular 人物/姿/数字s in the game as he brings the curtain 負かす/撃墜する on his 近づく three 10年間s of 開始 the batting for Somerset and, for six all too short years, his country.

Marcus Trescothick celebrates in the Oval dressing room with the Ashes urn back in 2005

Marcus Trescothick celebrates in the Oval dressing room with the Ashes urn 支援する in 2005

'England have 招待するd me to the 準備 days of the first two 実験(する)s, so the chance to go in there, watch, learn and understand how it 作品 will be magnificent,' says Trescothick.


'I've already spent some time with Andy Flower and the Lions and now I will see how Trevor goes about it and how it's all moved on. To just be there, help out and have a look is something I couldn't turn 負かす/撃墜する.'

It is a month since Trescothick 確認するd the news he would be retiring at the end of the season now age has finally caught up with one of the best and most long-継続している openers of them all.

'I just think it's a natural end,' says Trescothick, of his 戦う/戦い with father time. 'I've been 徐々に fading away over the last two years and the number of runs has been dipping. As much as I love playing and have enjoyed my time I'm ready to move on, I think.'

Trescothick believes he is 'ready to move on' into coaching after an illustrious playing career

Trescothick believes he is 'ready to move on' into coaching after an illustrious playing career

The good news is that the 決定/判定勝ち(する) has not, as yet, been as painful as Trescothick 恐れるd after a career that has brought him の近くに to 50,000 上級の runs for Somerset and England.

'I never thought I'd get to the point where I would mentally be ready to switch off and say, "Do you know what, I'm done",' he says. 'But I have done and 徐々に I've moved away from the playing 味方する of things.

'Coaching has really helped me and a 負わせる has been 解除するd. There's わずかに いっそう少なく 圧力 now on what I have to do going 今後. I look 支援する now with 広大な/多数の/重要な memories.??

'And I'm still trying. I'm still trying to get myself 支援する in the team but if it finishes with me playing second-team cricket I'd still be delighted with that. I've had a 広大な/多数の/重要な time.'

It says everything about the man that he wants his place 支援する, 得点する/非難する/20ing 53 and 90 in one of his last Somerset second-team 外見s against Gloucestershire at Rockhampton.?

Could he 軍隊 his way 支援する for one last first-team hurrah?

Trescothick celebrates at Lord's after reaching a century against Sri Lanka back in May 2006

Trescothick celebrates at Lord's after reaching a century against Sri Lanka 支援する in May 2006

Perhaps for the last game of the 郡 season? What an occasion that could be. For the fixture 名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる) will bring together at Taunton the two teams 現在/一般に challenging for the 選手権 肩書を与える in Essex and the perennial bridesmaids of Somerset.?

It is the one big prize that neither Somerset nor one of the greatest players of the 郡 of Sir Ian Botham, Sir Viv Richards and Harold Gimblett has won.

'Of course it would mean the world for us to 勝利,勝つ it,' 追加するs Trescothick. 'For as long as I've been playing we've made no bones about it. This is the elusive トロフィー we all want.'

Trescothick 会談 passionately about his career but it has also been tinged with sadness for he could have played many more times for England than 76 実験(する)s and 123 one-day internationals. He only did not for 推論する/理由s outside his and their 支配(する)/統制する.

'I loved the international stuff, 井戸/弁護士席 most of it because some of it was s***,' he says.?

'The buzz of playing for England was what made me enjoy it for so lo ng. Going out in 前線 of a big (人が)群がる and hitting runs was what 誘発するd me when I first got the taste for it.

'You think of all the series you 勝利,勝つ and the big 得点する/非難する/20s you get and the 広大な/多数の/重要な moments you have with your team-mates but we're not going to get too far away from the 2005 Ashes. That was a special time. The way the whole country was (海,煙などが)飲み込むd in it was very much like the World Cup that has just happened. This will change English cricket and the story behind it will live for ever as it did with Botham's Ashes and our team in 2005.

'I go to dinners now and people still want to talk to me about 2005.

'It was 絶対 魔法 and I can 心配する something 類似の for the guys now. For some 推論する/理由 the T20 World Cup 勝利,勝つ in 2010 didn't 逮捕(する) the imagination like this has done but I guess with it 存在 the World Cup in 50 overs it was 絶対 amazing.

'It was incredible watching the last hour of the final 負かす/撃墜する at Canterbury with the Lions. I can't imagine what it must have been like to play in it. Incredible.'

Jos Buttler (pictured) breaks the stumps to win the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup for England

Jos Buttler (pictured) breaks the stumps to 勝利,勝つ the 201 9 ICC Cricket World Cup for England

Trescothick's time with England (機の)カム to an end when the 苦悩 問題/発行するs that had first really 攻撃する,衝突する him on 小旅行する in India and Pakistan (機の)カム to a 長,率いる at the start of the 2006-07 Ashes.?

It says everything about him that his 遺産/遺物 will come as much from raising 認識/意識性 of mental health 問題/発行するs through his seminal autobiography Coming 支援する to Me as his powerful, minimalist batting.

'It wasn't a self-help 調書をとる/予約する but what it hopefully did do was make people know they are not alone,' he says. 'It's a 旅行 that many people go on. Peter Hayter (his ghost writer) and I said when we started, "If we help one person that's good enough for us".?

'Now 11 years 負かす/撃墜する the line I still get letters from people 説 thank you, it really helped. So we 明確に did something and now hopefully there's been a progression from that.

'I would have loved to have played for England for 10 or 12 years, of course I would because I really enjoyed it, but what I've been given since is 価値(がある) so much more, the time at home watching the kids growing up. I used to resent the fact that I was going away and would 行方不明になる them.

'International 退職 gave me something else. I've never dwelt on it too much. You have to go on to bigger and hopefully better things.'

Trescothick says moving into coaching has helped to alleviate the pressure of retirement

Trescothick says moving into coaching has helped to 緩和する the 圧力 of 退職

Trescothick's 苦悩 has never truly gone away.

'It still lives with me all the time but I've learnt to manage it better,' he says. 'The 苦悩 can be 誘発するd very quickly when something goes wrong so I'm very tuned in to the emotional 味方する of how my brain operates. It's still there and I live with it and manage it with 医薬 and it's a 事例/患者 of keeping on 最高の,を越す of it so I'm 井戸/弁護士席 用意が出来ている when it happens.'

But his 未来 is very 有望な, starting with Tuesday's international 義務 at Edgbaston. 'It was 2006 when England stopped but I've had a career in itself since then and it's been 広大な/多数の/重要な, I've loved every minute.?

'There have been 堅い times and good times but it's been very entertaining. And winning the 選手権 would be the perfect ending. I'll carry the drinks in that final game against Essex if I have to. That will 控訴 me 罰金.'

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