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Renegades, with just one win from their six games so far, are lying bottom of the table

AAP02-Jan-2024Glenn Maxwell celebrated his 100th BBL game for Melbourne Stars with all-round excellence in their derby win over Melbourne Renegades.Everything went right for Player-of-the-Match Maxwell in Tuesday night’s rain-shortened game at the MCG as the Stars easily won by eight wickets. They have won their last four games for a 4-3 record, moving up to third place, while Renegades are last on 1-5.Stars are now 16-9 in Melbourne derbies, and the teams will meet again at Marvel Stadium on January 13.On Tuesday, Stars restricted Renegades to 97 for 7 from 14 overs and then cantered to 98 for 2 with two overs in hand.The Stars bowlers shared the wickets around•Getty Images

Maxwell, the first player to reach 100 games for Stars, won the toss and everything flowed for him from there. He managed the bowlers superbly, claimed 1 for 8 from his three overs, and took two catches. Maxwell then combined with opening batter Thomas Rogers, who top-scored with 42 not out, to close out the match with a typically entertaining knock. He scored 32 from 15 deliveries, including three successive sixes off Adam Zampa.”It was awesome to watch from the other end – box office,” Rogers told after the match.Renegades could not score a boundary from the fifth to the 11th overs in their innings after they were asked to bat following a lengthy rain delay. Adding to the Renegades’ woes, reported that batter Joe Clarke was out for the rest of the tournament with the quad injury he suffered in Friday’s win over Sydney Sixers. They also had to leave out the in-form Mujeeb Ur Rahman because of a contract dispute with the Afghanistan Cricket Board – it is unclear whether Mujeeb will play for Renegades again this season.Renegades started brightly enough, scoring 33 from their first 2.5 overs, but once Jordan Cox was dismissed for 9 they lost momentum quickly. No. 3 Jake Fraser-McGurk only made 14 from 19 balls before he skied a catch to Maxwell off Beau Webster’s bowling.Fellow opener Quinton de Kock top-scored with 23 from 16 balls before Maxwell dismissed him. Spinner Dan Lawrence claimed 2 for 8 from his two overs.

Then opener anchored Western Australia with a fine century while Sam Whiteman and Josh Inglis played their part

AAP01-Mar-2024Jayden Goodwin scored his maiden first-class century to anchor Western Australia’s first innings in their Sheffield Shield match against Queensland at the WACA Ground.On a day when Cameron Bancroft fell for a six-ball duck, Goodwin dug in his heels to help guide WA towards a competitive first-innings total.Related

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Sam Whiteman combined with Goodwin to anchor the innings, while Josh Inglis added a handy 47 before WA lost 4 for 25 late in the day.WA entered the match third on the ladder and knowing a loss could end their hopes of reaching the Shield final to defend their title.Goodwin, the son of former Zimbabwe star Murray Goodwin, was the hero of the day, with his brave knock only brought undone when he was bowled by Mark Steketee soon before stumps.”Credit to Jayden, he batted tremendously,” Whiteman said. “He scored a good 80 the other week [against Tasmania], and he’s scored a mountain of runs in club cricket and second XI.  So it was awesome to see him get the job done in first-class cricket.”We’ve gotten to know Jayden pretty well over the last few years, and he just loves batting. He probably gets that from his dad. He’ll do whatever he can to spend as long as possible at the crease. He leaves really well and sticks to his game plan. It was a joy to watch today.”Bancroft fell for a duck in the first over after edging Xavier Bartlett to third slip, but WA were on top following a 128-run stand between Whiteman and Goodwin.Whiteman’s hopes of a century went up in smoke when he charged down the wicket to Mitchell Swepson and was stumped well out of his crease.Hilton Cartwright fell for a duck two overs later edging Swepson to slip, and WA looked shaky at 151 for 4 when D’Arcy Short nicked Steketee behind.Inglis helped Goodwin settle the ship after that. Goodwin struck 13 fours and one six on the way to reaching his century in 245 balls, and he fell just short of seeing out the day.Bartlett was the pick of the Queensland bowlers with 5 for 45, while Steketee and Swepson snared two apiece.”To get Bangers [Bancroft] out – he’s probably the form batsmen of the competition – to see the back of him early was a nice start to the day,” Bartlett said. “I thought the way Sam Whiteman and Jayden Goodwin batted there, they were superb. They put the pressure back on us, so hats off to them.”

The Australia coach had criticised England’s slowness with the bat on the first day but spin bowler Danielle Hazell insisted they did what they did to try and win the game

Daniel Brettig14-Nov-20170:52

‘We made sure they didn’t get a sniff’ – Knight

England have rejected the contention of Australia’s coach Matthew Mott that only one team went into the women’s Ashes Test match with genuine intent to win it.While the England coach Mark Robinson and the captain Heather Knight kept their counsel on the eve of a tour match against the Governor General’s XI in Sydney ahead of the final Twenty20 leg of the series, spin bowler Danielle Hazell was adamant that the visitors were very much of the mindset that they were trying to win the Test at North Sydney Oval.Mott had argued that England’s scoring rate on day one of the match, having won the toss and batted on a pristine surface, had been slow enough to suggest they were more interested in averting a defeat that would have handed the Ashes to Australia with three T20 matches remaining. Hazell said that England’s approach was to treat the T20s – all of which they must win in order to wrest the urn from Australia – as a trio of knockout matches. As World Cup winners this year, it is a neat idea.”No, any game of cricket you turn up to you want to win,” Hazell said when asked whether England had been mainly concerned with keeping the series alive. “We’re very clear that that’s what you need to do in the game, whether it’s a Test match, a one-dayer or a T20, whatever game you’re playing you come out there to win and the series has set itself up this way and it’s all we have to do now.”He [Mott] is entitled to his opinion, that’s the way he viewed the game and that’s what he thought happened. We came out of the game with a draw, we know now exactly what we have to do, it’s a quarter-final, a semi-final and a final for us and we need to go out there and perform really well.”The Australian opener Nicole Bolton said Mott’s remarks were indicative of two opposing sides who were not particularly friendly. “I think that’s part and parcel of an Ashes series, it wouldn’t be the Ashes without a bit of a slanging match,” she said. “There’s no love lost between these two teams, we fight really hard, we play a really hard brand of cricket, so it just goes to show how important these T20 games are in the context of where the series is at.”Bolton, who will lead the Governor General’s XI against the English tourists but was not chosen in the Australian T20 squad, said adjustment from one format to the other would be the trickiest part of the series’ final round. “The way this series is formatted is quite tricky,” she said. “The good thing is I think both sides play a lot of limited-overs cricket.”That adjustment into 20 overs will be different coming off a Test match, where I think some of our scoring rates weren’t even 50, but both sides have got such quality batters that anyone can take the game away so it’ll be really interesting to see who steps up.”Australia have lost the services of the young fast bowler Lauren Cheatle, who pulled up sore ahead of the Test match. And though she was rested for it, her back has not healed enough to be included in the team for the T20s.”Lauren’s had to go and get some scans and they’re waiting on those results, but to have a young fast bowler go down like that it is disheartening,” Bolton said. “I know she’s put in such a lot of work to get herself back in a position to bowl for Australia, so she’ll be sorely missed.”

There are still hopes of a positive result at Southport despite a day lost to rain

Paul Edwards at Southport11-Jun-2017
ScorecardJohn Simpson admitted Lancashire held a slight advantage•Getty Images

There was no possibility of playing cricket on the second day of this match at Southport. The overnight rain relented quite early in the morning but it was replaced a couple of hours later by another front which drenched the outfield that the Lancashire and Southport groundstaff had worked so hard to dry. At three o’clock Peter Hartley and Steve O’Shaughnessy called things off for the day and the only surprise was that they had not taken that decision an hour earlier.Food tended to dominate proceedings thereafter. The rain may have prevented cricket being played but it softened the ground at Trafalgar Road and made it all the easier for the young crows to forage for worms; in the tents and marquees the corporate hospitality guests tucked in as heartily as they had every right to do, especially given that they had been denied their cricket. The players drifted back to their hotels in town with plans to watch the football or go out to eat in one of Southport’s many restaurants. Another day in another season.The good news from the point of view of those attending on Sunday and Monday, when the weather forecast is considerably better, is that this looks like a three-day pitch. A par score is reckoned to be about 240 and much will therefore rest on whether Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Dane Vilas can be parted on the third morning. It would be difficult to fancy Middlesex’s chances on a pitch showing variable bounce at the Grosvenor Road End if they conceded a lead of anything over 70 or so, and the need for points is not lost on the champions’ wicketkeeper-batsman, John Simpson, whose unbeaten 53 held his side together on the first afternoon.”I’d say Lancs probably edged the first day,” he said. “It nipped around early and it was a strange day, as much as anything because there were four guys caught down the leg side, which I’ve never seen before. It was a case of applying myself when I got the opportunity to bat.”When you’re coming at four down with about 70 on the board you have to get your head down but capitalise on any loose deliveries and try to put the bowler under pressure. It was a good old fashioned grafting knock. We got a couple of quick wickets and then the pitch settled down a bit. Then it started swinging a little and I’m not sure whether that’s got anything to do with the tide coming in or going out. But it was an intriguing day.”Simpson is in his ninth season at Lord’s and is one of the best uncapped cricketers in England. Time and again people reading their morning papers at county matches see that he has scored runs and wonder what his prospects might be without Bairstow, Buttler and Billings in the England set-up. Across the river the same is said of Ben Foakes, whose time should surely come. Simpson, himself, is more concerned with helping Middlesex defend the title they won so gloriously at Lord’s last September. Four successive draws hardly help but there is a long way to go yet.”Apart from the Hampshire game where we had to dig in and fight really hard to come away from with a draw, I think we’ve played some really good cricket,” said Simpson “We dominated all four days against Essex without getting over the line but the weather curtailed that game. Against Surrey we had to cope with Sangakkara but he’s a world-class player and churning out runs and hundreds is what world class players do.”It’s now a case of getting it all together and putting in a total team performance, which we haven’t done so far. But Lord’s has been a tough place to get results – I think we only won two games there last season – so I think it’s going to be a case of trying to force wins at home and win games on the road. You have to remember that we’re a couple of games behind some teams and a couple of good wins will put us back in the mix.”

Shortly after resigning from his role with Sri Lanka, Silverwood joins Tom Moody’s backroom staff

ESPNcricinfo staff19-Jul-2024Chris Silverwood has been appointed to his first job in English cricket since he was sacked as England’s head coach, replacing Azhar Mahmood as one of Tom Moody’s assistants at defending champions Oval Invincibles in the Hundred.Silverwood lost his job in the aftermath of England’s 4-0 defeat in Australia in early 2022 but was only out of work for two months, joining Sri Lanka on a two-year contract. That was later extended to include the recent T20 World Cup in the Caribbean and the US, but Silverwood resigned shortly after their group-stage exit, citing a reluctance to spend long periods away from home.Related

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He will now join Moody’s staff at the Invincibles for 2024, ahead of their – and the Hundred’s – opening matchday on Tuesday, against Birmingham Phoenix. Mahmood resigned from his role when he took up a full-time role with Pakistan earlier this year, and Silverwood will join Matt Walker and Jim Troughton in the men’s coaching staff.James Foster, who lost his job as Northern Superchargers coach last year after they won the wooden spoon in the men’s competition, will also return to the Hundred this summer. He has replaced Paul Collingwood as one of Trevor Bayliss’ assistants at London Spirit, with Collingwood unavailable for the start of the tournament while on Test duty with England.The Spirit have added two more assistant coaches to the backroom staff of their women’s team, who are coached by the Australian Ashley Noffke. Ali Maiden, the Yorkshire men’s assistant coach, and Sunrisers’ Marc Broom have both been appointed, and Maiden could be a contender to replace Noffke when he steps down at the end of this season.The most notable coaching appointment in the Hundred this year saw Andrew Flintoff replace Foster as Superchargers head coach in the men’s competition. His first match as a head coach is against Trent Rockets at Headingley on Friday night.

Late Porter wicket cements another forceful display from table-toppers

ECB Reporters Network20-Apr-2024Tom Westley kick-started his season with an innings that helped underpin Essex’s commanding position against Lancashire in the Vitality County Championship at Chelmsford.The Essex captain chalked up 1,130 runs last season but had contributed just 56 in four innings this time around. However, his fluent 81 from 138 balls signalled a personal return to form and helped Essex construct a 231 first-innings lead against ailing Lancashire. By close of play Lancashire had lost captain Keaton Jennings while crawling to 10-1 in 10 evening overs as they battled to avoid an innings defeat.In a throwback to earlier times, there was a Cook scoring runs near the top of the Essex order, though this was the unlikely figures of Sam rather than Sir Alastair. The nightwatchman hung around for nearly two and a half hours and 126 balls for a highest first-class score that marooned him one run short of a maiden fifty.Essex had overhauled Lancashire’s first-innings total inside 36 overs for the loss of the overnight wicket of Feroze Khushi, who had laid the foundations with a half-century at a strike-rate of 160. Elgar and Cook were more circumspect, though their impact was just as demoralising for the flagging fielding side as they put on 120 in 36 overs.Cook pulled George Balderson for one consummate boundary while Elgar also pulled Balderson to the ropes and followed next ball with an angled glide to third man for another of his 10 fours.Lancashire did not help themselves when just after he had brought up the century partnership in 187 balls, Cook was dropped at third slip by George Bell on 44. He went to lunch on 49 and was back in the pavilion promptly afterwards, caught first ball at slip misdriving outside off-stump against Balderson.Elgar passed 17,000 first-class career runs during his three-and-three-quarter-hour stay, but was eventually out caught behind when wafting at Will Williams on 79, his third 50-plus score in five innings for his new county.There was no let-up with Elgar’s departure. Westley and Jordan Cox settled into a steady rhythm, Westley characteristically strong off his legs and Cox helping on its way to the boundary a Lyon ball that drifted down legside.Their partnership was worth 57 when Cox dragged Jack Blatherwick tamely to short midwicket. Matt Critchley, centurion against Kent last week, came and went quickly, Lyon finding one to turn sharply and catch the angled bat on its way into slip’s hands.The introduction of Luke Wells’s spin just before tea resulted in a flurry of scoring, his only over in the spell conceding 17 runs. Westley whipped a delivery through the covers to reach his fifty and then Michael Pepper twice lofted over long-on for a combined total of 10 runs.Pepper treated Bailey and the new ball with similar distain, hooking a six to fine leg and then driving through midwicket along the ground. But he played down the wrong line to Williams in the next over and was caught in the slips for 30 from 31 balls.Noah Thain played attractively on his first-class debut for 24 from 50 balls before being undone by one that kept low from Balderson and disturbed his middle and off stumps. Four overs later, Westley was also the victim of another low delivery from Lyon that beat his mistimed swish and hit his protruding front pad.The innings was wrapped up in the space of eight balls when Wells trapped both Shane Snater and Simon Harmer.Lancashire’s reply faltered when Jennings, a century-maker against Hampshire last week, went for his second single-figure score in the match, lbw misjudging a delivery from Jamie Porter. Nightwatchman Williams might have gone first ball but Harmer put down a routine chance at second slip.

Thunder succumb to successive defeats despite 63* from Emma Lamb and Mahikar Gaur’s three wickets

ESPNcricinfo staff26-May-2024Blaze continued their flying start to the Charlotte Edwards Cup with a five-wicket victory over Thunder at breezy Loughborough.Put in, Thunder were lifted to 151 for 6 by a pugnacious fifth-wicket partnership of 73 from 50 balls by Emma Lamb, who continued her excellent form with an unbeaten 63, and Ailsa Lister (44). Grace Ballinger led the Blaze bowling with 2 for 25.Blaze were then steered to 152 for 5 with seven balls remaining, and a third successive win, by a perfectly-judged 61 by Kathryn Bryce. Mahika Gaur removed both openers early on her way to 3 for 39 and Thunder were well in the game until the closing overs before Bryce climbed into the attack to leave the visitors nursing successive defeats following Friday’s loss to South East Stars at Beckenham.Thunder was rumbling in the skies overhead as Thunder started their innings brightly with 19 from the first two overs before Ballinger bowled Fi Morris through an attempted slog.Seren Smale soon perished when she hesitated over a sharp single and was beaten by Lucy Higham’s throw. Eleanor Threlkeld was then bowled by a beauty from Kirstie Gordon before heavy rain arrived with Thunder on 55 for 3 from nine overs.In an immediate statement of intent after the resumption, Lamb reverse-swept the first two balls for four in an over that went for 16. Danielle Collins fell to the Bryce sisters, stumped by Sarah off Kathryn, but Lister offered Lamb aggressive support to rattle up a half-century stand in 35 balls.Lamb passed 50 in 38 balls and supplied a steady foil for the feisty Lister who struck six fours before lifting Nadine de Klerk to long on where Marie Kelly judged a fiendishly difficult catch perfectly in the swirling wind.Gaur damaged Blaze’s reply early with two wickets in her first eight balls, abetted by careless batting as Kelly lifted a pull to deep square and Teresa Graves chipped to mid-wicket. The Bryce sisters rebuilt with a stand of 47 from 39 balls before Sarah Bryce (24) sliced Tara Norris to backward point.At 64 for 3 after ten overs, Blaze need impetus and de Klerk supplied it with 14 from three balls from Collins. Morris then skilfully returned a brake to the scoring and de Klerk’s assault (25) ended when she top-edged a skier off Gaur to Hannah Jones at fine leg.The pivotal over was the 16th in which Kathryn Bryce lifted Jones for three straight sixes, passing her 50 in 45 balls in the process. Twenty from that over left Blaze needing just 24 from the last four and though Bryce departed with seven still needed, Ella Claridge saw her side over the line with a perfect cameo of 18 not out from 10 balls.

England’s 2019 World Cup-winning coach will not return in 2025

Matt Roller03-Dec-2024Trevor Bayliss has left his role at London Spirit in the Hundred after his men’s team finished bottom in 2024. Bayliss replaced the late Shane Warne as men’s coach ahead of the 2022 season, when Eoin Morgan captained them to the play-offs, but his team have won only three games and lost 11 in the last two years since Morgan’s retirement.Bayliss’ side were particularly poor in 2024, losing seven of their eight matches with a scrappy three-wicket win over Welsh Fire the only exception. Their top picks at the draft, Shimron Hetmyer and Andre Russell, managed 216 runs between them, and Dan Lawrence was unable to get them out of a rut as captain.The Spirit’s struggles in the men’s Hundred were only emphasised by the success of their women’s team, who won the title for the first time under Heather Knight and Ashley Noffke. Noffke has since signed an extension for the 2025 edition, though has lost assistant Ali Maiden to Birmingham Phoenix.”We’d all like to thank Trevor for his considerable efforts across the last three seasons,” Fraser Stewart, London Spirit’s general manager and the MCC’s head of cricket, said in a statement. “He initially joined us in difficult circumstances and led the side to a strong finish in 2022, but the team hasn’t been able to replicate that success since.”As a group, we’re desperate to see London Spirit competing at the right end of the table and we think a new approach may be of benefit to our chances. Trevor leaves Lord’s with our best wishes and our gratitude.”Related

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Bayliss’ stock has fallen as a coach of late, five years on from his England side’s triumph in the 2019 50-over World Cup. He was replaced as Punjab Kings coach by Ricky Ponting earlier this year, though has been retained as Sydney Thunder coach for the upcoming Big Bash League season despite overseeing their last-placed finish in 2023-24.London Spirit have already advertised for Bayliss’ replacement, with a first-round deadline of December 11. James Foster and Paul Collingwood are both potential contenders, having spent time working under Bayliss as assistant coaches, and an appointment appears likely to take place before the completion of the Hundred’s ongoing sales process.The second-round deadline for bids from private investors (for 49% stakes in the Hundred’s eight teams) is December 9, with London Spirit expected to attract the highest offers. Interested bidders for the Spirit are understood to include at least two IPL franchises in Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants, as well as the Manchester United co-owner Avram Glazer.

It is now a List A tournament, which means all tournament statistics will be given official status

ESPNcricinfo staff11-Dec-2023The UAE-based ILT20, one of the major franchise-run T20 leagues around the world despite being just a season old because of the quality of players it has attracted, has been given List A status by the ICC just over a month off the start of its second season. It’s the first T20 league run by the board of an Associate nation to be given the status.What it means is that the tournament will now be recognised as an official T20 tournament, with all tournament statistics given official status. In a statement, the ILT20 called the update “a major milestone” and a “major boost”.”Earning the List A status is a major milestone for the DP World International League T20. We would like to thank the ICC for the acknowledgment,” David White, chief executive of the league, said. “The recognition is a clear indication of the strength and stature of our league.”The second edition of the tournament will kick off on January 19 and end on February 17.And despite the dates of the tournament overlapping to some extent with a bunch of other T20 leagues, like the BPL, the SA20 league in South Africa, the Australian BBL, the Super Smash in New Zealand, and possibly the PSL, T20 stars like David Warner, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Alex Hales, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Jordan, Trent Boult, Nicholas Pooran, Chris Woakes, Maheesh Theekshana and others are going to be in action at the ILT20.The ILT20 is currently a six-team league, with three of the teams – Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, Dubai Capitals and MI Emirates – owned by groups that own IPL teams. Gulf Giants, led by James Vince, won the first edition when they beat Desert Vipers in the final.

‘He is the absolute personification of what a professional sportsman should aspire to be’ – Somerset director of cricket

ECB Reporters Network27-Jun-2019Marcus Trescothick is to retire from professional cricket in September after 27 seasons as a Somerset player.The 43-year-old former England opener has announced his decision following a disappointing start to the current County Championship campaign, which saw him left out of the team after scoring 88 runs in eight innings. But Trescothick remains available for selection and would like nothing more than to crown his illustrious career by helping leaders Somerset to a maiden Championship title.”It has been an incredible 27 years and I’ve loved every minute of it,” Trescothick said. “However, everything has to come to an end eventually.”I’ve been discussing my future with the club and my family for a while and we felt that now was the appropriate time to make this announcement in order for the club and I to put plans in place.”There’s still a lot of the season left and I’ll be doing everything I can to put in performances for the second XI in order to force my way back into contention for the first team.”Marcus Trescothick bats as another season draws to a close•Getty Images

Since making his debut in 1993, Keynsham-born Trescothick has proved himself one of the best players the county has ever produced, breaking numerous records and playing in 76 Test matches and 123 one-day internationals for England.Those numbers would be even greater, but for the stress-related illness that led to him returning home from an Ashes tour in 2006 and announcing his retirement from international cricket in March 2008.A legend with Somerset supporters and, with a stand named after him at his beloved County Ground in Taunton, Trescothick can leave the stage assured of a place in the club’s history books alongside the great Harold Gimblett.While Gimblett will retain his record as having scored the most first-class runs for Somerset, Trescothick boasts the most first-class centuries, with 52, and the most List A runs, with 7,374.In first-class cricket, he has scored 19,654 runs for the county, at an average of 41.11, and holds the record for the number of catches with 445.
His international career began with a one-day international against Zimbabwe in 2000 and he went on to score 5,825 Test runs at an average of 43.79, along with 4,335 one-day runs for England at 37.37.As a member of the 2005 Ashes-winning team, he was awarded the MBE. He played in the 2003 World Cup and established himself as one of the most feared opening batsmen in the game.Named Somerset captain in 2010, having helped the club win the 2001 C&G Trophy and the 2005 Twenty20 Cup, Trescothick led the team for the next six seasons.Announcing his forthcoming retirement, he said: “The club, the members and the supporters mean so much to me. There are so many memories that I will cherish forever and Somerset will always hold a truly special place in my heart.”Twenty seven years is a long time, but it’s gone incredibly quickly. I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to do something that I love for that length of time and I’m extremely grateful for all the support that I’ve received throughout this remarkable journey.”Somerset director of cricket, Andy Hurry said: “Marcus Trescothick is one of the finest players that this country has ever produced and his record on the field of play speaks for itself.”His passion and enthusiasm for the game of cricket is infectious, and his work ethic is phenomenal. He is the absolute personification of what a professional sportsman should aspire to be.”Whilst his playing record is there for all to see, what you can’t measure is the positive influence that he has behind the scenes. He leads by example in everything that he does, and the way that he goes about his business is second to none.”Trescothick plans a future in coaching and media work. He is a Mental Health Ambassador for the Professional Cricketers Association and has taken a leading role in helping fellow players fight the sort of illness which cut short his international career.