In The Daily Telegraph Derek Pringle casts a sympathetic eye over Marcus Trescothick’s decision to retire from international cricket.

It will seem unthinkable to most sport lovers how playing cricket for your country can cripple a man so, especially one of the finest batsmen of his generation. But modern cricket entails a life lived on the road, one less acceptable now that families are no longer content to subjugate themselves to the employment needs of the paterfamilias.

Now, he will see out his cricketing dotage playing for Somerset, a modest stage for his exceptional talent but indisputably the right one for a healthier state of mind.