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Marcus Trescothick

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Marcus Edward Trescothick MBE (born in Keynsham, Somerset on 25 December, 1975) is an English cricketer who plays Test cricket for the England cricket team and County cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club.

An exceptional run-accumulation record at school level was followed by Trescothick captaining the England Under-19 cricket team on tour against West Indies in 1994/5 and at home against South Africa in 1995. He was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award in the 1996 and 1997 season.

After a relatively disappointing early first-class cricket career as an opening batsman, Trescothick impressed Duncan Fletcher in a county match at Taunton against Glamorgan (when Fletcher was the Glamorgan coach) when he scored 167 (including five sixes) when the next-best score was 50. Fletcher became the first foreigner to coach England in 1999, and, when he needed an opening batsman in 2000, he called on Trescothick. Trescothick immediately demonstrated devastating strokeplay with a calm head, a good combination with the more solid play of Michael Atherton.

Trescothick has since displayed a tendency to give his wicket away when seemingly well set, contributing only a quick cameo of 30 or so runs. After a career best 219 against South Africa at The Oval in 2003, his form dipped in the 2003/4 tours to Sri Lanka and West Indies, and the stellar debut of Andrew Strauss in 2004 overshadowed Trescothick to some extent. However, the England selectors were patient and, on 1 August, 2004, playing against West Indies, Trescothick became the first player to make centuries in both innings in a Test match at Edgbaston (and the ninth England player to score a century in each innings of a Test match). On 28 December 2004, in the second innings of the second Test against South Africa at Durban, Trescothick scored 132 runs in an opening parthership of 273 with Strauss, a record opening partnership at Durban and England's first 200 opening stand since Graham Gooch and Atherton against Australia in 1991. At Johannesburg his quickfire 180 helped set up England's decisive victory. He is also an accomplished slip fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler and stand-in wicketkeeper.

Trescothick is praised as one of England's better players of spin, he established this when he first toured the sub-continent. Since establishing himself Trescothick he has had an excellent record against most sides and in the recent 2005 Ashes series put his demons from the previous Ashes series to rest by being the second highest run scorer in the series (next to Kevin Pietersen). As well as achievements he has an interesting title as Glenn McGrath's and Shane Warne's 500th and 600th wicket respectively.

Trescothick is also England's vice-captain, having been appointed to the role after Michael Vaughan became captain of the side (indeed, Trescothick was Vaughan's main rival for the captaincy). He has twice captained the side for Test matches when Vaughan has been injured, winning against New Zealand at Lord's but losing to Pakistan in Multan. He has also captained England in five one-day internationals (winning three and losing two) and representative matches.

He married to his longtime partner, Hayley Rowse at All Saints Church in Trull, Somerset on Saturday, 24 January, 2004. The couple have a daughter, Ellie Louise. After his father-in-law fell from a ladder in November 2005, he suddenly returned home due to personal reasons in February 2006 during the India tour. He withdrew himself from both the test and the ODI series. He returned to from immediatly with his 14th Test Century, a score of 106 in a stand of 127 with Alastair Cook, against Sri Lanka at Lord's on the 11 May 2006.

• In 2005, he was named as one of five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack, and in June of that year scored exactly 100 not out against Bangladesh in his hundredth one-day international; this was his ninth ODI hundred, passing Gooch's previous England record of eight
• He has the feat of scoring 1000+ runs in a calendar year three years running having scored 1004 in 2003, 1003 in 2004, and 1323 in 2005
• In the 2006 New Year Honours list, Trescothick was awarded the MBE for his role in the successful Ashes tour
• In May 2006, a cricket management simulation endorsed by Marcus Trescothick, 'Marcus Trescothick's Cricket Coach', is set to be released. It has been developed by Rockingham Software Ltd and licensed to Focus Multimedia Ltd.

• Marcus Trescothick at ESPNcricinfo