Why is trott not playing

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The fact that Trott continued to play and score runs after that is nothing short of remarkable. This fear now had a new dimension.

The leather ball could kill. It is unimaginable how this would have affected Trott, but he marched on. He was selected to captain the England Lions on their tour to South Africa. He scored heavily on the tour, including a double century. He was ready to be picked again, or so it seemed. English cricket was in a mess. They wanted Trott back. He had scored runs, his recovery was on track, his doctors had given him the green signal. He was fit to go, but was he actually?

Trott may not have necessarily believed he was ready to be thrown into the deep. Maybe, he just wanted to believe it. He wanted to defy his mind, his fear, his critics, those who believed he would never come back, he wanted to defy himself, he wanted to defy the world. He wanted to fulfill his dream, again. He wanted to play for England. This was it. The Biggest test of his life. He failed in the three test matches he played in, averaging 12 and repeatedly getting out to the short ball.

The demons had become prominent again. Before then I was focused on the process — scraping my mark in the ground, getting ready for the next ball. I need 80 to keep standing still. Was this relentless schedule the main cause of his disintegration? Two months later Trott fell apart in Brisbane — also the scene of one of his great Test innings.

In November , against an attack including Johnson, Trott hit as he and Cook shared an unbroken stand of Surely change is needed?

Could there be less international cricket? Most people would say so. His wife, Abi, explains that, after reading his newspaper column, she wrote an unsent letter to Vaughan. It just makes it plain how much damage he caused. Before he was burnt-out and scarred by the intensity of international cricket, Trott approached his Test debut with thrilling certainty.

They were apprehensive and nervous. I was very excited. At the end of day three, one of my best days ever, I got a hundred and I wanted to go back to the changing rooms and sit with my team-mates. He describes his sports-crazed childhood in South Africa and his unsettling perception that the mood at home was dictated by whether or not he was scoring lots of runs in schoolboy cricket.

He almost felt he would no longer be loved if he was not a prodigious run-machine.