Richard Edwards tells how the Under-19 World Cup has given the former England Test ace a new vision for the future
For a man who came within an ace of 1,000 CountyChampionship runs last season, Jonathan Trott clearly has more to give as a player.
But with just a year left on his contract at Edgbaston he’s busily assembling his options for the future.
It’s the kind of considered approach that you would expect from one of English cricket’s most organised and effective batsmen and a man who still finished top of Warwickshire’s averages last season.
It’s also one that appeared to be helping the country’s Under-19 cricketers until their extraordinary routing by a teenage leg-spinner in the World Cup quarter-finals in New Zealand on Tuesday.
Trott has spent the last month working with stand-in Under-19 coach, Jon Lewis, at a tournament that saw England breeze through the group stages but fall short against the Aussies in the last eight.
That, of course, was a huge disappointment but for a cricketer who once exited the Under-19 World Cup without playing a single game – with South Africa in 2000 –Trott would have been able to provide some much needed perspective.
This, after all was a cricketer renowned for his equanimity for the majority of his international career – and that priceless characteristic could see him being a coach in demand when he finally calls time on his playing career.
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