Marcus Trescothick
Marcus Trescothick
Marcus Edward Trescothick, MBEis an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club, and represented England in 76 Test matches and 123 One Day Internationals. A left-handed opening batsman, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in 1993 and quickly established himself as a regular member of the team. Trescothick made his One Day Internationaldebut seven years later, against Zimbabwe in July 2000. His Test debut, against the West Indies, followed in August. Although former England captain...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth25 December 1975
ideal last match points series
It is not ideal to go into the last match with the series already decided, but a lot of ranking points are up for grabs.
great leaves lose major open performer player series
Simon's been a great performer for us this series. To lose a major player after we have done so well is disappointing but it leaves it open for someone to come in and play in a big series like this.
best bowl couple gives lose major obviously opportunity past player seen series weeks worry
The best I have seen him bowl has been in the past couple of weeks but it is not something we can worry about too much. To lose a major player in your team, who has done so well, is obviously disappointing but it gives someone else an opportunity to come in and play in a series like this.
blow losing major performer player series throughout
It's a big blow because he's been such a big performer throughout this series so far. You're losing a major player in the team.
against best judges played series team until
Everyone judges you on how you play against the best team in the world, and up until this series I haven't played that well against them,
christmas indian nice tour
It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.
ahead cricket decided needed people point spoke struggling test
It got to the point when I said I was pretty fatigued and struggling to concentrate on my cricket ahead of a big Test match. I spoke to the people that needed to know and decided it was the right thing to come home.
couple great last
We have been through some great things in the last couple of months.
deeper goes spirit team
Our team spirit goes deeper than just one loss.
extremely finding hard takes tests three
Three back-to-back tests are extremely demanding. We're finding it hard in these (hot) conditions, it takes a lot out of you.
days game side tomorrow
We are on the right side of it. There are still two days to go. If we play well tomorrow it can set up the game for us.
close session
We're going to need a big first session to try to get close to their total,
fight hard score tomorrow
We're going to have to fight hard and play well - we just need to get a big partnership going and someone to get a big score tomorrow morning.
hopeful obviously sore
We're hopeful but he's obviously pretty sore at the moment.