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Taunton drinks in vintage Trescothick
- Updated: May 15, 2016
Somerset 342 for 4 (Trescothick 97, Rogers 91, Hildreth 69*) v YorkshireScorecard
For an illusion of an unchanging English landscape nothing beats a day at Taunton with Marcus Trescothick at the crease and blue skies draping the Quantock’s rolling pastures. “Catch it while you can,” you want to cry, although on this evidence you have a while yet. England’s most enduring county batsman is in his most prolific form for years.
A sense of permanence is not easily found these days, not even in county cricket as a prolonged and necessary debate drags on about the future of England’s professional game, but Trescothick’s low-revved power comes closest to it, the harvest of his career largely taken in, his England deeds long gone and his sufferings handled with dignity, but with runs still to make and pleasure to dispense.
His switch to wearing glasses last season; the concession of the captaincy this: each can be fairly advanced as contributory factors to the fact that Trescothick is middling the ball with such conviction.
On this evidence, Harold Gimblett’s Somerset run-scoring record – about 4,000 runs hence – is by no means beyond him. He narrowly missed out on his third first-class hundred this season and the Taunton diehards are purring that he is back to the relaxed figure who has been part of their lives for two decades.
“It would be easy to say my form is down to giving the captaincy away,” he said, but he says it happily these days, which was not always the case when the suggestion was first mooted. “Nowadays I am solely focusing on what I am trying to do and that feels quite nice at times, to relax and not get too stressed about bowling changes and things.”
The switch to glasses was a brave decision, too, because they do draw attention to a player as the Big 40 looms. “It wasn’t a hard decision to switch to glasses. It was something I had been toying with for a couple of years, getting eye tests and realising things were not quite as pure as they used to be. I tried contact lenses for a bit but that was no good because my …
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