Jonathan Trott Career Status and His 1st Ashes Centuries  Honors-

Jonathan Trott

Personal information
Full name	Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott
Born	22 April 1981 (age 29)(1981-04-22) Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Nickname	Trotters, Booger, Leon
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Role	Middle-order batsman
Relations	Kenny Jackson (half-brother), Tom Dollery (grandfather-in-law)
International information
National side	England
Test debut (cap 645)	20 August 2009 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 211)	27 August 2009 v Ireland
ODI shirt no.	4
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2000–2001	Boland
2001–2002	Western Province
2002–	Warwickshire (squad no. 9)
2005–2006	Otago
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	17	9	152	165
Runs scored	1600	569	9,999	5,614
Batting average	64.00	70.40	44.44	45.64
100s/50s	5/5	1/4	22/51	11/37
Top score	226	110	226	125*
Balls bowled	114	48	4,358	1,405
Wickets	1	0	56	52
Bowling average	86.00	–	44.12	25.25
5 wickets in innings	0	0	1	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	1/16		7/39	4/55
Catches/stumpings	7/–	2/–	146/–	55/–
Source: Cric Info, 4 December 2010

Personal life-

Cricket-

Jonathan Trott batting for Warwickshire against Cambridge UCCE, at Fenner's cricket ground in Cambridge, 15 April 2006.

Warwickshire-

International-

Twenty20 International debut:

Trott's maiden Test century

2009 Ashes:

England in South Africa, 2009/10:

Bangladesh home and away 2010:

One Day International centuries-

Jonathan Trott's One Day International centuries
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	110	6	Bangladesh	Birmingham, England	Edgbaston	2010

Pakistan 2010:

2010–11 Ashes:

Achievements and honours-

• Scored a century (168*) in the 2010 Ashes at The MCG, Melbourne
• Scored a century in the 2010 Ashes at The Gabba, Brisbane
• 18th English cricket player to make a century at his Test debut (5th Ashes Test, 2009)
• Ashes winner: 2009
• World Record 8th wicket partnership in Test Cricket of 332 (with Stuart Broad v Pakistan at Lord's, 2010)

Man of the series awards-

Date	Format	Opponent	Result
2010	Test cricket	Pakistan	England win the series 3–1

Test Cricket centuries-

Jonathan Trott's Test Cricket International centuries
	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year
[1]	119	1	Australia	London, England	The Oval	2009
[2]	226	7	Bangladesh	London, England	Lord's Cricket Ground	2010
[3]	184	13	Pakistan	London, England	Lord's Cricket Ground	2010
[4]	135*	14	Australia	Brisbane, Australia	The Gabba	2010
[5]	168*	17	Australia	Melbourne, Australia	Melbourne Cricket Ground	2010

On a day when Ricky Ponting lost his cool with the umpires, Jonathan Trott was a picture of composure as his second century of the series kept England on target to retain the Ashes. Led by an aggressive Peter Siddle in front of his home crowd, the Australian fast men tried to drag their team back into the contest but after their first-innings 98, the hosts needed a miraculous day, not a solid one. 

Trott was the anchor for England, with support from Kevin Pietersen and Matt Prior, and by the close of play their advantage had grown to 346 runs, already an ample lead that will grow on day three. Trott went to stumps on 141 and Prior had 75, and Australia's inability to break through in the final session sapped any energy they might have drawn from Siddle's early strikes. 

Three days of rain might be feasible in Brisbane, given the recent weather in the north, but it won't happen in Melbourne, and Australia's batsmen must find remarkable resolve in the second innings if England are to be denied victory and the urn is to remain up for grabs at the SCG. And judging by Ponting's outburst, levelheadedness is not widespread in the team right now.

The Ashes 2010: Jonathan Trott's third century just the ticket for England-

By -Dean Wilson  

Jonathan Trott marched past 150 on day three to etch his name into the history books at the MCG with his third Ashes ton.


 Australia are losing it after Jonathan Trott century keeps England on top and on track for fourth Test win after day two at the MCG

The 29-year-old paid no attention to the furore surrounding Ricky Ponting's outburst to continue rubbing salt into the wounds of Australian cricket under blue skies.
Ponting, though, moved on from the token fine for his outburst the day day before to help his side make an early breakthrough in the morning by catching Matt Prior to end an England 6th wicket record partnership of 173 at the ground.


Prior was crestfallen at failing to reach a maiden Ashes ton, but his 85 was yet another vital contribution to the England cause before he chipped five-star paceman Peter Siddle to mid-on.
Siddle has been the only bright spark for Australia throughout this match and he again carried the attack to England in front of his home town fans to get rid of Tim Bresnan soon after.


A regulation edge through to the keeper gave Siddle his fourth Test five-wicket haul, but he was the only seamer smiling after Ryan Harris limped off mid-over with what appeared to be a serious ankle injury.

Trott, though, kept adding to his second ton of the series which has turned him into an Ashes hero of the Chris Broad, Michael Vaughan and Kevin Pietersen mould, and he did it despite taking a painful blow to the knee from an inside edge.

A year ago, Jonathan Trott's crucial fourth Test run out of Phil Hughes wouldn't have been possible, says England coach Andy Flower.


While opening partner Shane Watson set up the MCG dismissal by calling for a quick single that wasn't really there, Flower used the incident to highlight work done developing England's players.

Australia had made an encouraging start in their second innings at 0-54 on day three when Trott pounced on Watson's push into the covers and ran out Hughes with a well-executed throw.

Trott is not known for his fielding and was also coming off his lengthy stay at the crease for 168no.

"A guy like Jonathan Trott ... a year ago, would never have got that run out," Flower said.

"Number one, he would have been too tired physically from the exertions with the bat, because he wasn't in as good condition - our physical trainer is brilliant.


"He's one of the best in the business, Hugh Bevan, a Welsh guy, ex-rugby.
"Working on his movement, the efficiency of his movement to the ball and then the quick release from that position - for Jonathan Trott, he's not known for his fielding.


"For him to get that run out and certainly stop the momentum that the openers had given Australia, was a good example of some of the work that goes on behind the scenes, that people don't see."
Flower said the English cricket system had worked with Major League baseball teams to develop fielding skills.


Australia pioneered this approach, using well-known baseball coach Mike Young as a fielding consultant.

"Guys like Gordon Lord, who runs our coach education program in England and does a superb job for us, they are constantly seeking to educate our coaches and we're updating ourselves all the time," Flower said.

"We ask the players to improve all the time and we have an obligation to do the same as coaches.


"Certainly baseball is the most obvious one, we've had baseball coaches working with our fielding coach about different throwing styles, release speeds, how quickly you need to release the ball, from what position do you release the ball."

Jonathan Trott: England refreshed and ready for the grandest occasion in fourth Ashes Test-

It is a fantastic opportunity to play in front of a massive crowd at the MCG on Boxing Day.

We have to make sure the memories we take away from Melbourne are good ones.

Trott's hunger hurts Australia-

After the bowlers did their job yesterday, England's No.3 ensured there was no let-up with another impressive display-

source-Andrew Miller at the MCG

Some batsmen specialise in the counterattack, others major in attrition. Jonathan Trott, however, nestles into another comfortable and entirely enclosed genre, that of the specialist bloodletter. Like a medieval physician faced with a case of apoplexy, Trott draws his scalpel across the artery, and drains all tension from the situation until the patient is totally becalmed. 

And so it was, on one of the most volatile days of the summer, with Ricky Ponting inviting ICC censure for his run-in with Aleem Dar and Peter Siddle pounding in on a still-lively track to give Australia the outside chance of a sub-200 deficit, Trott bedded in, zoned out, and finished the day on 141 not out. It was his third hundred in his first five Tests against Australia, the first England batsman since Michael Vaughan in 2002-03 to achieve such a feat, and for the second time in as many games, it moved England into a position from which an Ashes-sealing victory appears little more than a formality. 

"I don't think it's anything about batting against Australia in particular," said Trott. "I've played five games against Mike Hussey and he's also scored three hundreds, so you might also have to ask him why he likes batting against England. It's just one of those things. I'm very fortunate. I work really hard on my game, along with everyone else in the team, and I'm just happy to be able to contribute to getting us into a good position." 

A total of 67,149 spectators turned up to the second day at the MCG - some 20,000 fewer than attended on the first, but still the largest crowd that he had ever before encountered. Trott, however, anesthetised the lot of them as he treated the occasion with his habitual equanimity. "Each hundred you get is in different circumstances," he said. "This is definitely an important Test match and one I'll definitely savour. They're all pretty special but Boxing Day, [with] the hype around it and the support from the English fans, it would definitely be right up there." 

Like South Africa's Jacques Kallis, a fellow Capetonian, Trott is not exactly a man to set the pulses racing, but it's hard not to admire the unfussy manner with which he goes about his work. All of the fuss, in fact, is fast-tracked into his ritual between balls, which involves constant guard-taking and crease-scratching, and enables him to expend any excess nervous energy and leave the business of seeing and hitting cricket balls to a combination of a sound instinct and a water-tight technique. 

"Any batter that's out there in the middle, in the zone, is tough to bowl to - especially him," said Siddle, whose adrenalin-fuelled method has been thwarted by Trott in each of those three centuries. "It is tough work. The wicket is not offering a lot of bounce, which keeps it in his favour a little bit - knowing it's going to be pretty much up there for him on the front foot." 

Trott's current average against Australia is a Bradman-esque 96.33, while his career average - at his overnight score - of 62.92 puts him second behind the Don in the all-time averages for batsmen who have made more than 1500 Test runs - a figure he ghosted past during the afternoon accumulation with Matt Prior. 

As with the best of Trott's performances, notably his 184 in partnership with Stuart Broad at Lord's last summer, the latter stages were fuelled by an absolute certainty of outcome. The morning drizzle and early life had made survival tough for all the batsmen, and both overnight incumbents, Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss, fell without significant addition. 

But as the evening drew in and the crowds dissipated in droves for the second day in a row, Trott's love of crease occupation and eye for the loose delivery allowed him to ease to within nine runs of his third 150-plus score in seven months. To put that in context, Pietersen (on six occasions) is the only English batsman to manage more so-called "daddies" in the whole of the past five years. 

"I think it's important I don't over-rev when I'm batting and try and over-hit the ball," said Trott. "Sometimes I find I'm a bit tense, it's too much. I try and be nice and patient and play my natural game, which is to accumulate here and there and let the other guys hit boundaries and sixes." 

In fact, Trott was so under-revved, he claimed he did not notice or take an interest in any of the controversy that took place early in the second session, when Kevin Pietersen survived a caught-behind appeal off Ryan Harris that led Ricky Ponting into an angry discussion with umpire Aleem Dar. The only moment he was truly unsettled came when he inside-edged Ben Hilfenhaus onto the side of his kneecap. 

"It was one of the most painful things I've felt in my life," said Trott, who required lengthy treatment after falling to the crease in a heap. "I asked for the runner to put the pads on and see how it went. I gave it 20 minutes to see if it stiffened up. It did a little bit ... but that'll teach for me inside-edging it." 

That incident aside, Trott's resolve was scarcely tested, as he re-entered the zone that he and Alastair Cook had occupied on the final day at Brisbane, when England served notice of their series intentions with that formidable second-innings scoreline of 1 for 517. "Obviously the cloud cover was there and a bit of drizzle early on," he said, "but fortunately the sun came out this afternoon and the wind sort of dried the pitch out."

But despite the looming prospect of a very handsome victory, Trott was not ready to take anything for granted just yet, the very same trait that has served his batting so well throughout a memorable 2010. "We all know that the Australian team - like we saw in the last Test match - has got some good players," he said. "We're going to have to be at the top of our game to make sure we keep the pressure on them the whole time. 

"I wouldn't say that they were demoralised," he added. "I thought they bowled pretty well today ... [but] things went our way. It was a good day for us but it's important to remember they'll come at us tomorrow morning and try and get themselves right back and get as many wickets as soon as possible. It's important I'm on my game from the start tomorrow. There's plenty of work for us left to be done in this Test match." 

Andrew Miller is UK editor of Cricinfo.

 

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