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Post by Admin on Aug 13, 2024 10:02:59 GMT
Very sad end to his life RIP
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Post by alanw on Aug 13, 2024 10:25:41 GMT
Yes very sad RIP.
Puts winging about losing players to the hundred etc into perspective.
There seems to be a higher level of depression in cricketers than in other sportsmen and life in general.
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Post by Admin on Aug 13, 2024 10:29:45 GMT
Yes very sad RIP. Puts winging about losing players to the hundred etc into perspective. There seems to be a higher level of depression in cricketers than in other sportsmen and life in general. Very true I think I read that cricket has a very high percentage of people making the final decision themselves. |
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Post by man in the stand on Aug 13, 2024 10:59:44 GMT
I think this issue can arise when you retire and suddenly it hits home that you are no longer needed....Alex Hartley describes this effect in an interview when she was dropped from the England team..
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Post by MickeyG on Aug 13, 2024 11:06:15 GMT
I think the NFL has a few too which they put down to CTE which has should have no effect in cricket. If head trauma does have an influence, then heading the ball should cause it too. Lots of older footballs get dementia.
Horrible way for Thorpe to go. Not nice for the train driver either.
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Post by lancsdes on Aug 13, 2024 11:21:24 GMT
As a long time sufferer with depression who has certainly often wished not to be on this earth , I am pretty sensitive to these matters . I am very open about it myself and the Thorpe family are right in exposing this although I hope they also conferred with the children from his first marriage . You get a sixth sense of other vulnerable people ; I had guessed Thorpe before it ever got in the paper and I also suspected Michael Slater was a very tortured individual which he did turn out to be. I didn’t guess Trescothick, however
I think there can be more to it than just the being out of the limelight after retirement. Bats are particularly vulnerable I believe and I suspect it is because it is so individual a performance but you let a team down and have little chance to put it right for some time. I suspect that scars a bat during his/her career and these things can be cumulative. I sometimes struggle to reconcile how I can love a sport so much that is so difficult mentally.
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Post by Rob on Aug 13, 2024 14:57:20 GMT
A quite brilliant player. I remember seeing his knock of 94 against the Windies in 1995, match with Cork's hattrick.
RIP.
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