Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott, or more easily known to the cricketing world as Jonathan Trott was born on 22 April 1981. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and has represented South Africa in the Under-15 and also in the Under-19 level.
Even though Trott was born and brought up in South Africa, he earned the right to play for England as a result of his grandparents being English. In April 2009 he married Warwickshire's press officer Abi Dollery, granddaughter of former Warwickshire captain Tom Dollery. Their daughter, Lily, was born in October 2010.
Even though Trott had represented South Africa in both under 15 and under 19 level. He got his first chance to play for England in 2007 against West-Indies in a twenty-20 international, in …show more content…
He states that the real problem started in England after they had defended the Ashes in 2011. He states that "After the Ashes in England I couldn’t enjoy the fact we had won the series. I was embarrassed by the contribution I had made, even though I think I had the third highest average." Things started going really down hill when they were preparing for the Ashes of 2013 in Australia with the pressure of defending the Ashes and the great record he had against Australia of an average of 90 and that created a huge imbalance for …show more content…
An example for this he gave to the media was, ‘I’m in the nets and I’m caught behind. I’m thinking,, what are my team-mates going to think of me?” And then, “What if that happens in the game? What are they going to think of me then? What are the opposition going to think of me? What are the spectators going to think? What are the press going to write?” When in fact the bowler is probably thinking he delivered a good ball and half my team-mates probably didn’t even see it. The fact that he put so much pressure on himself not just in the game, but also in training shows how prone he made himself to anxiety and mental problems. These issues became to much for him to handle when he left the English squad after their first test of the Ashes due to some 'stress related
Even though Trott was born and brought up in South Africa, he earned the right to play for England as a result of his grandparents being English. In April 2009 he married Warwickshire's press officer Abi Dollery, granddaughter of former Warwickshire captain Tom Dollery. Their daughter, Lily, was born in October 2010.
Even though Trott had represented South Africa in both under 15 and under 19 level. He got his first chance to play for England in 2007 against West-Indies in a twenty-20 international, in …show more content…
He states that the real problem started in England after they had defended the Ashes in 2011. He states that "After the Ashes in England I couldn’t enjoy the fact we had won the series. I was embarrassed by the contribution I had made, even though I think I had the third highest average." Things started going really down hill when they were preparing for the Ashes of 2013 in Australia with the pressure of defending the Ashes and the great record he had against Australia of an average of 90 and that created a huge imbalance for …show more content…
An example for this he gave to the media was, ‘I’m in the nets and I’m caught behind. I’m thinking,, what are my team-mates going to think of me?” And then, “What if that happens in the game? What are they going to think of me then? What are the opposition going to think of me? What are the spectators going to think? What are the press going to write?” When in fact the bowler is probably thinking he delivered a good ball and half my team-mates probably didn’t even see it. The fact that he put so much pressure on himself not just in the game, but also in training shows how prone he made himself to anxiety and mental problems. These issues became to much for him to handle when he left the English squad after their first test of the Ashes due to some 'stress related