Tresco To Return?
With the announcement due of a preliminary 30 man squad to take to the Twenty20 World Cup, the talk yet again is whether Marcus Trescothick will return to the England fold. He’s ruled himself out of being in squads previous this year, but he seems in better mental nick, and would surely love to get back into the international scene.
The whole “Should we bring him back or shouldn’t we?” debate is one which we havn’t really had the chance to have yet. He wanted to de-stress and play some county cricket, the latter of which he’s done pretty successfully so far this season. We don’t know the full facts about his stress related issue which saw him leave Australia before the first test last November, and probably as punters we don’t need to. As long as those that need to know – the team coach, selectors etc – do know, then their decision is good enough for me. If he says he’s ready to go to South Africa for the couple of weeks tournament then fine, let him go. If he gets there and finds “stress” again, then it will be cheerio to Tresco’s international career. But he deserves the chance to do that, and he’d be an asset at the top of the order. Imagine him and Prior opening the batting – it’d be fun to watch that’s for sure!
And if he does go to South Africa, does that then mean that he’s ready to tour with England this winter? And as a fully fledged test player or one day player? There is no doubt in my mind that the strongest England team is one with him in it. Worry about who to drop if you get that far, but Tresco’s powerful play is the perfect thing at the start of an innings a la Hayden has done for the past couple of years.
I’m not sure why, in July, we even need to announce a 30 man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup. As the tournament is quite a way away in September and you have to halve the squad by then, what is going to help by naming 30 players now? Especially as some of the players announced won’t have a hope of travelling to South Africa, injuries or not.
Our best players will hardly have played any Twenty20 cricket this year thanks to the awful weather we’ve had over the past couple of weeks. It won’t make a difference though as we will still turn up and roll over at the first tough game. I did think about going at one stage but I think money can be spent better elsewhere unless someone out there would like to comp me a trip to let me report on it?! You can get in touch using the contact form but I won’t hold my breath…
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