Perhaps the most human story from The Champions League tournament is the return of Marcus Trescothick to the subcontinent. Wickman recently read Banger's autobiography Coming Back To Me and it's a harrowing tale of a cricketer coming to terms with mental fallibility. Weighed down by sickness, confined to hotel rooms, struggling with Indian poverty and tortured by the divide between his duty to his family and to his team mates and country, Trescothick is almost destroyed by severe depression. As his life unravells he makes a series of errors of judgement and his life spirals giddily out of control.
To see him back on the World stage (almost) and functioning as a cricketer is a real pleasure. His achievements for England are all the more special for the paucity of one day resources (in particular) that we now have. Getting through to the next stage of this tournament will hopefully give him two more chances to set his stamp on proceedings and Wickman for one hopes we see more of the fireworks he has become known for around the world in the next week.
The book's well worth a look at for those of us who've thought that playing International cricket would be one long dream of run scoring, foreign sunshine and days out at Lords.
Hampton Wick Royal Cricket Club * 1863 - 2013 * 150 Glorious Seasons
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Trezzer and Somerset
Perhaps the most human story from The Champions League tournament is the return of Marcus Trescothick to the subcontinent. Wickman recently read Banger's autobiography Coming Back To Me and it's a harrowing tale of a cricketer coming to terms with mental fallibility. Weighed down by sickness, confined to hotel rooms, struggling with Indian poverty and tortured by the divide between his duty to his family and to his team mates and country, Trescothick is almost destroyed by severe depression. As his life unravells he makes a series of errors of judgement and his life spirals giddily out of control.
To see him back on the World stage (almost) and functioning as a cricketer is a real pleasure. His achievements for England are all the more special for the paucity of one day resources (in particular) that we now have. Getting through to the next stage of this tournament will hopefully give him two more chances to set his stamp on proceedings and Wickman for one hopes we see more of the fireworks he has become known for around the world in the next week.
The book's well worth a look at for those of us who've thought that playing International cricket would be one long dream of run scoring, foreign sunshine and days out at Lords.
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