Marcus Edward Trescothick is a former English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Somerset and represented England in 76 Test matches and 123 One Day Internationals. As of March 2014 he holds the record for the most ODI centuries of any English player, and for the fastest half-century in English Twenty20 cricket. He retired from international cricket in March 2008, opting to continue playing at county level for Somerset.
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Marcus Edward Trescothick MBE is a former English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Somerset and represented England in 76 Test matches and 123 One Day Internationals. He was Somerset captain from 2010-16 and temporary England captain for several Tests and ODIs. As of March 2014 he holds the record for the most ODI centuries of any English player, and for the fastest half-century in English Twenty20 cricket. He retired from international cricket in March 2008, opting to continue playing at county level for Somerset. He is also an accomplished slip fielder and occasional right-handed medium pace bowler who has kept wicket for England in five ODIs, and deputised as England captain in two Tests and ten ODI matches. He has been awarded a MBE for his services to cricket in 2010 and a CBE for services to the sport in 2012. He also holds several Somerset batting records, including the most runs scored by an ODI player in a single season. His father played for Somerset County Cricket Club’s second team and appeared for Bristol and District Cricket Association between 1967 and 1976. His mother was a stalwart at Keynsham Cricket Club, where his mother made the club teas. His sister, Anna, is three years older than him, and he was immersed into cricket from an early age. He scored 4,000 runs between all different teams he was representing, which included the Somerset under-19s, which he was named as the young player of the year by the Somerset Cricket Association in 2008.
He won the ODI Player of the Year award in 2010. He will be inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame in 2013. He received his first cricket bat when he was eleven months old. He was chosen to play for the Avon School under-11 cricket team, and scored the first century for Avon, striking 124 against Devon, and a couple of weeks later remained not out on 183 when he coach declared the innings closed, claiming \”if I let him get a double-hundred at his age, what else would he have to aim for?\” He was an automatic choice for England between 2000 and 2006, before a stress-related illness threatened his career and forced him to pull out of the national squad. His education continued at the Sir Bernard Lovell School in Oldland Common near Bristol, and by the age of 14 he was playing alongside his father in the Western League. In his autobiography Back to Me, he recalls that he was bigger than he was of age, which gave him a strength advantage, enabling him to hit the ball harder and further than others. At the same time, concerns were raised about his fitness, with suggestions that he would need to work on his fitness in the latter years of his career. He continued playing for Somerset while also working as a commentator and analyst for Sky Sports in the off-season. He finally retired in 2019 and holds a number of batting records for the county.
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