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Demons choose random victims | Peter Hayter

Ben Stokes

HOW long after the news of Ben Stokes’ decision to take a break from cricket did it take for the name Marcus Trescothick to ring like a bell in the cricketing consciousness?
Minutes? Seconds, more like and its echo brought just the latest reminder of the size of the debt sport owes to the former Somerset and England all-rounder and now their batting coach for his trailblazing work in making it okay not to be okay.
At the time Trescothick first fell victim to the kind of mental health issues that were eventually to force his premature retirement from international cricket in March 2008, wor...

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