Marcus Trescothick

... um, Tim Southee and KP.

But Steven Fleming has got Marcus Trescothick, but, um, he's also got James Foster.

Oh, wow.

I know.

Troy Cooley began as an elite national pace bowling lead earlier this year.

England men's test head coach, Steven Fleming, will be supported by a coaching staff, which includes Dawson, Marcus Trescothick, James Foster, and Eric Simons.

England men's white-ball head coach, Brendan McCullum's coaching team will include Sarah Taylor, Jiten Patel, Tim Southee, and Kevin Pietersen in his mentor role.

The coaching staff will be in place for the upcoming, uh, s- tours of South Africa and then the white-ball tour to Australia, respectively.

He's obviously coming back after that long, that long knee injury, and you had a top six that played against Pakistan, now you've gotta maybe try and fit him into the test team.

Uh, I was interested at the end of the summer when Marcus Trescothick said, "Maybe an opener doesn't need to be a specialist anymore." I mean, you've got a, a headache coming up, haven't you? Maybe you haven't thought about it yet, but how are you gonna get Bethel into that test team?

Yeah, it's, it's a really good question and a, and a, and a fantastic position to be in.

Um, you know, when you have players that, um, you know, a- a- miss, miss opportunities to play through injury, that is... presents another opportunity for somebody else.

You know, Jonathan Trott now with the Lions.

You brought in Richard Dawson, James Foster, Marcus Trescothick.

England have only had, um, an English head coach of the test team twice, or three times really, over the past quarter of a century.

Someone, Peter Moores, had a go at it twice.

So it's very clear that this is a part of...

You're trying to build succession planning, but it doesn't necessarily mean you're definitely gonna go on to do that.

But I do believe that a number of these coaches, including Marcus Trescothick, who did it very well when he stood in, and that was a great experience for him, and did the interim job against Pakistan, that they're gonna get opportunities.

They're in international cricket now.

He's just in- relentlessly accurate, and that's the culture he's instilled in the rest of the bowlers.

You know, he made it clear that he saw his role as, as introducing that in, uh, into the team a- a- and that's been decided at, you know, at, uh, you know, the Trescothick, whatever level, you know.

That, that's what they wanted.

Um, and, uh, you know, so he's very accurate, doesn't give much away.

Rubbing the ball on the zipper.

Marcus Trescothick, there's mints coming out of his pocket when he dived for that catch at square leg.

Yep.

Uh, Waqar Younis and Tendulkar deliberately lifting the seam, picking at the seam.

Uh, five different commentators from five different nations, that was their first response, was, "What's your board doing?" And in the end, um, it was an arms race, wasn't it, between the nations to get the ball in the right condition for reverse swing.

Um, whether it was minties in 2005, you know, in Marcus Trescothick's autobiography he mentioned he dropped the minties and, um, thought the umpires were gonna see it there.

Um, lip balm, um, scratching up the ball with bottle tops, all that sort of stuff.

Now, taking sandpaper onto the ground, besides taking a power drill, that is taking it to the nth degree, which you can agree with, but I just think that the penalties were, were way out of whack.

Well, those butts were uncovered later on.

Then Marcus Trescothick, I don't know whether I knew this, admitted in his biography to using sugary saliva from a mint.

They were XXX mints.

I knew that-