I've steadily moved into coaching and it's taken its natural course from there, says Marcus Trescothick
Marcus Trescothick has announced that he would take up full-time coaching as his long and illustrious 26-year-long career came to an end with the last championship game of the season. The former English opener admitted that he was ready for the retirement after a long fear of missing out cricket.
When Marcus Trescothick graduated to open for England, he was under so much scrutiny. However, rising above everything, he went on for six years without ever getting the sack and scored 5,825 Test runs at an average of 43.79 in an international career that spanned from 2000 to 2006, which saw the high of 2005 Ashes win. His defiant 431 runs in 2005 summer, none better than his 90 against Australia at Edgbaston which invariably became the first punch on which Kevin Pietersen built his legacy.
Although his England career was cut short due to battle with depression and anxiety, which forced him to leave a tour of India in February 2006 and then a tour of Australia the following winter, and he retired from international cricket in 2008 before making himself available for Somerset, a county for which he had scored over 4000 runs in a season as a 15-year-old in 1991. Now, that the sojourn is over and Trescothick has the time to think back while announcing that he would take up coaching as his profession.
"I'd moved myself on a bit earlier in the season. I was scared of it before. I'm ready. Beforehand it was a case of worrying 'what does it look like? Where do you go? How do you find the money to pay the mortgage?'," Trescothick told BBC Test Match Special.
"These are the sorts of worries anyone goes through towards the end of a long career in an industry and it comes to an end and there's no obvious thing to start."
After Mark Ramprakash left the national team ahead of the World Cup, ECB appointed Trescothick to ease the workload off Graham Thrope for the first two Tests of the Ashes series where he spent the training days ahead of the Edgbaston and Lord's Tests with the England squad at both training sessions and at the team hotel. Considering he has some broadcasting commitments, Trescothick said he would plan for the future in October.
"I'm really busy for October, which is something I always plan for the end of each season, but it's unclear how things will develop from there. But since the last playing in a first-team game at Guildford in June, I've steadily moved into coaching and it's taken its natural course from there. Should I fall into a full-time position, I'm just waiting to see how it will unfold."
