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Marcus Trescothick

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Marcus Edward Trescothick MBE (born in Keynsham, Somerset on 25 December, 1975) is an English cricketer. He plays county cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club, and has played over 75 Test matches for the England cricket team, as well as over 100 One-Day Internationals.

A left-handed opening batsman, he made his First-class debut for Somerset in 1993, made his International debut in the One-Day International (ODI) against Zimbabwe cricket team in July 2000, and his Test match debut one month later against the West Indies. Trescothick has deputised as England captain for two Test matches and ten ODIs.

Trescothick is also an occasional wicket-keeper and (right-handed) medium pace bowler. His batting technique has been likened to that of Graham Gooch and David Gower.

Personal life and early career

Educated at the Sir Bernard Lovell school in Oldland Common, near Bristol, an exceptional run-accumulation record at school level was followed by Trescothick captaining the England Under-19 cricket team on tour against West Indies in 1994/5 and at home against South Africa in 1995. He was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award in the 1996 and 1997 season.

He married his partner, Hayley Rowse at All Saints Church in Trull, Somerset on Saturday, 24 January, 2004. The couple have one daughter, Ellie Louise (born April 2005). He has the rather unsurprising nickname of Tresco, as well as Banger (his favourite meal is bangers and mash).

A keen golfer, Marcus is also a supporter of Bristol City Football Club.

Domestic career

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One of the highlights of Trescothick's early domestic career was in fact a bowling achievement, a hat-trick against "Young Australia" for Somerset in 1995 After almost seven years of a relatively disappointing early first-class cricket career as an opening batsman, Trescothick impressed Glamorgan coach Duncan Fletcher in a county match at Taunton when he scored 167 (including five sixes) when the next-best score was 50. After Fletcher became the first foreigner to coach England in 1999, and needed an opening batsman in 2000, he called on Trescothick. Trescothick immediately demonstrated devastating strokeplay with a calm head, a good combination with the more solid play of Michael Atherton.

International career

Trescothick soon gained a reputation for keeping his head and collecting centuries when the rest of the team were failing. His first four hundreds were in matches subsequently lost. He has however, since displayed a tendency to give his wicket away when seemingly well set, contributing only a quick cameo of 30 or so runs. After a career best 219 against South Africa at The Oval in 2003, his form dipped in the 2003/4 tours to Sri Lanka and West Indies, and the stellar debut of Andrew Strauss in 2004 overshadowed Trescothick to some extent. However, the England selectors were patient and, on 1 August, 2004, playing against West Indies, Trescothick became the first player to make centuries in both innings in a Test match at Edgbaston (and the ninth England player to score a century in each innings of a Test match). On 28 December 2004, in the second innings of the second Test against South Africa at Durban, Trescothick scored 132 runs in an opening parthership of 273 with Strauss, a record opening partnership at Durban and England's first 200 opening stand since Graham Gooch and Atherton against Australia in 1991. At Johannesburg his quickfire 180 helped set up England's decisive victory. He is also an accomplished slip fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler and stand-in wicketkeeper.

Trescothick is praised as one of England's better players of spin, he established this when he first toured the sub-continent. Since establishing himself Trescothick he has had an excellent record against most sides and in the 2005 Ashes series put his demons from the previous Ashes series to rest by being the second highest run scorer in the series (next to Kevin Pietersen). In the previous series against Bangladesh, he scored 100 not-out in his 100th ODI, surpassing Graham Gooch's record of eight ODI centuries. In the summer of 2005, he became the fastest player to reach 5000 runs in test cricket. Trescothick achieved the notable feat of scoring over 1000 Test runs in a calendar year for three consecutive years: 1004 in 2003, 1003 in 2004, and 1323 in 2005.

He was given the prestigious merit as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for his achievements in 2005, and was, with the rest of the team, awarded with an MBE in the 2006 New Year honours list.

Trescothick was England's vice-captain under Michael Vaughan (indeed, Trescothick was Vaughan's main rival for the captaincy). He has twice captained the side for Test matches when Vaughan has been injured, winning against New Zealand at Lord's but losing to Pakistan in Multan. He has also captained England in ten One-Day Internationals with a fifty-percent win-ratio. More recently, both Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Strauss have been chosen to captain the side ahead of Trescothick.

Illness and depression

During England's tour of India in February 2006, he suddenly returned home citing personal reasons, although in a press conference orchestrated by the England and Wales Cricket Board he later blamed a virus.

Trescothick returned to Test cricket in May 2006, scoring 106 against Sri Lanka to become the first Test centurion of the 2006 English season. However, the century proved to be Trescothick's high point of his Test summer, as he reached fifty just once in the subsequent six Tests against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Trescothick did, however, hit two ODI centuries, one apiece against Ireland and Sri Lanka.

In September 2006 he withdrew from the remaining ODIs against Pakistan and asked not to be considered for the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy squad because of a "stress-related illness". It has since transpired that it is likely that Trescothick had been suffering from clinical depression, the cause of much of his trouble throughout 2006.

Trescothick was included in the squad for the 2006-07 Ashes in Australia, and played in the first two tour matches against the Prime Minister's XI and New South Wales. Following the end of the NSW match, on 14 November England announced Trescothick was flying home due to a "recurrence of a stress-related illness".

It is unclear whether Trescothick will declare himself available for international cricket in the future. He is currently recovering from a double hernia operation, and is aiming to be fit for the start of the county season. If he can prove himself once more as one of England's foremost batsman of his generation, a recall has not been ruled out, and the England management have supported him throughout his illness. Depression amongst cricketers is rarely documented, but the the current congested ICC schedule, player "burnout" and similar illnesses are becoming more commonplace. However on April 8, 2007, Trecothick made a stunning comeback by scoring 256 from 117 balls in a 50 over match against Devon, helping Somerset onto 502-4 off their 50 overs. He marked his comeback to the County Championship with a 44-ball half-century against Middlesex on April 19 2007

Trivia

A cricket management simulation endorsed by Marcus Trescothick, 'Marcus Trescothick's Cricket Coach', was released on 1 May 2006.
Trescothick has the dubious honour of being Glenn McGrath's 500th, and Shane Warne's 600th Test victim.
Trescothick is a fan of Bristol City and is also honorary vice president of the Club.
Trescothick is an anagram of Cricket Shot

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Preceded byMichael Vaughan

English national cricket captain
2004

Succeeded byMichael Vaughan

Preceded byMichael Vaughan

English national cricket captain
2006

Succeeded byMichael Vaughan

Template:Englishmen with 100 or more ODI caps

v t e England squad – 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Knight 2 Caddick 3 Hussain 4 Stewart 6 White 11 Flintoff 15 Irani 22 Hoggard 23 Trescothick 28 Harmison 29 Giles 37 Blackwell 40 Anderson 50 Collingwood 99 Vaughan Coach: Fletcher

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