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 | |  Friday, 22 March, 2002, 08:09 GMT Trescothick stays positive  Trescothick: No intention of abandoning his instincts England opener Marcus Trescothick has no intention of abandoning his aggressive approach despite a disappointing dismissal in the second Test at Wellington. The Somerset left-hander had made 37 when he top edged an attempted sweep to mid-wicket, but afterwards vowed to continue going for his shots. "I played the shot the ball before and hit it well. The ball I got out to was in the same area and I'm not dwelling on it because mentally I was quite happy with what I was doing. "It's happened all my career. I occasionally play a big shot and get myself caught at deep point or deep square leg, but that's the way I tend to play the game and nine times out of 10 it works well," he said. Trescothick has been a big success since his debut against West Indies two years ago, but has only two centuries from 39 Test innings and admitted to feeling tired earlier this month after having to keep wicket as well during the one-day series. He is, however, confident that his approach is the right one for him. "That's the way I've played cricket all my life and there's no reason to change now just because I've not scored that many in this series.
"I will still tinker with a few technical things here and there, but the general plan won't change too much." Groundstaff spent most of the day trying to dry out the bowler's run ups and parts of the square, so only 30 overs of play was possible. But it was the home side who suffered the most as they need to level the series, having lost by 98 runs in Christchurch. ""It was a frustrating day sitting around waiting to start and if the surrounds of the wicket were better, we'd have started much earlier," said New Zealand coach Dennis Aberhart. "It's disappointing because it's not the first time it's happened here, but I understand the groundsman is doing all he can possibly do." | |
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