Jonathan Trott: It’s not an agenda. I want to go out and score runs against Australia

England’s former No3 will be at the World Cup as a pundit but still dreams of playing Test cricket again in this summer’s Ashes

• Jonathan Trott leaves Ashes tour in Brisbane

It doesn’t take long – a minute and a half perhaps – for Jonathan Trott to run out of World Cup small talk. Two weeks after returning from the England Lions’ tour of South Africa, Trott is in Birmingham preparing to fly to Sydney to work at the tournament as a pundit. The good news, for anyone with an interest in his main career as a nuggetty top-order batsman, is that he looks if not quite underwhelmed by the prospect, then undoubtedly more practitioner than critic, still carrying the self-contained air of a player who feels his moment in the centre is far from done.

This is a return to form in itself. One of the unnerving aspects of Trott’s unplanned departure from England’s Ashes tour in 2013 was the sight of such a brilliantly controlled international sportsman clearly struggling to control his emotions. The good news then is that the old force field is back. Trott is bright and caustically funny company. But he’s restless too, a heavy, abrasive presence, with an impatient kind of honesty about him.

Continue reading...

















from Sport | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1KK66cd

Browse More Articles

Tweet

Written by Unknown

We are Creative Blogger Theme Wavers which provides user friendly, effective and easy to use themes. Each support has free and providing HD support screen casting.