Shaun Tait quits cricket indefinitely

[AusRule]

shocked and stunned totally and a little sad :crying but the way that he's been looking a little lately quite drained and never looking over that elbow injury except for that week in early December with the Pura Cup match against Queensland and the Twenty20 against New Zealand and also the way he's been treated lately by Cricket Australia so its really all built up on him i suppose.

Hopefully he can sort out his issue's and be back on the scene in the not to distant future and be back playing for Australia or going over to England getting his passport and playing for England with the ECB giving him full support unlike Cricket Australia has done .

Good luck in the future Sloon .

 

[punterpupnroy]

I can not believe that. AMAZING. Well he did not perform in the WACA test maybe for the reasons he listed. He wasn't fit that test. He wasn't accurate in the later stages of that match when he bowled. Crazy.

 

[KingCJ]

I think his performance in Perth has let him down, and Punter was too busy making sure his boyfriend Johnson got a bowl for poor Tait to get a chance.

 

[irottev]

The thread title is EXTREMELY misleading.

Quite a surprise really.

 

[Hooper]

The thread title is EXTREMELY misleading.

Quite a surprise really.

Yeha, he hasn't quit. He will be back once he gets his life/body/cricket back together. No need to worry I think. I don't think a young lad like him would throw away the game when he was a strike ODI bowler and a soon-to-be Test star.

 

[AusRule]

I think his performance in Perth has let him down, and Punter was too busy making sure his boyfriend Johnson got a bowl for poor Tait to get a chance.

great comment CJ couldn't agree with you more

 

[superhussey]

:crying :crying

That sucks.

Hopefully he can sort out all his problems, and be ready start of next summer

Feeling pretty bad about supporting the redbacks at the moment

 

[0601731]

shocking news,more so because just a few months ago he was talking bout rattling the indian batsmen with his pace and how pumped up he was against the kiwis.

 

[KBC]

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!

First To Go was Martyn, Warne, McGrath, Langer, Gilchrist, And Now Tait. Man, I loved watching him.

Shame!.:. Come on mate, There are good and toughs' in the game of cricket. You can't be so emotional at this stage.

Sadly, He'll be the youngest Australian player to retire..

 

[ZexyZahid]

He might come back later on, because it says it's indefinitely.

 

[SciD]

He would have not lost the love of the game had Punter given him few more overs in WACA test match. I think that match has hurt his pride and thats why he has taken time off to sort out mental side of his cricket.

I hope he makes a comeback. I dont wanna see him turning into another Marcos Trescothick who is a brilliant player but cannot focus on game due to his health related problems.

 

[Sureshot]

How can you lose a love for the game at 24?

I'll edit the title.

 

[mattfb]

Lame.

He played crap in Perth, our bowlers are going good and Noffke is probably next in line. But that doesn't mean he should quit.

 

[angryangy]

Looking at that article, he's also suffering from back strain as well.

I found this quite interesting. Considering his woes in the wake of elbow surgery, the last thing he needs is to overuse his back.

In 2000, playing his 7th Test, Brett Lee suffered stress fractures in his back, aged 24. It ended a frightful run of fast bowling, 42 wickets averaging 16.

In 2001, 20 year old Bulls recruit, Mitchell Johnson underwent scans to reveal a stress fracture in his back and subsequently was plagued for 3 years by the injury.

Early in 2003, scans revealed a number of stress fractures for 22 year old Shane Watson, on the eve of a World Cup debut. However this was a familiar trouble for Watson who had dealt with the injury a further three times in his teens.

Not long after in 2003, Ashley Noffke suffered a lumbar stress fracture, which recurred in the form of a 'hotspot' that saw him rested in 2005.

Pakistan's Umar Gul met with 3 stress fractures in 2004, as he was fast becoming a pace sensation. Still only 23, his struggles with injury have not helped his reputation among pundits.

Before Umar Gul, 23 year old firebrand Waqar Younis missed the 1992 World Cup with stress fractures, while Imran Khan before him had lumbar stress fractures at age 31. It doubtlessly took considerable shine off a career at its peak. He struggled for nearly two years to recover and it took an experimental treatment to bring him back into the game.

Shane Bond's injury history is probably worthy of its own library, but his mentor Richard Hadlee too suffered from that ailment, leading him to study the mechanics of bowling and how to tune the bowling action to avoid injury, which then led into a career beyond his playing years.

Perhaps the most famous of all was Dennis Lillee's back injury in 72/73, the 23 year old tearaway at first not realising the severity of the injury, before finally being forced out of cricket and diagnosed with a stress fracture. He waited more than 21 months between his 11th and 12th Tests and many felt his career had been ended.

The bottom line; look after your back. For every professional cricketer who comes back from an injury, there are ten couldabeens who quit sport because of the risk.

 

[aussie1st]

He just needs time off, I believe he will be back in the near future. It's a shame though as I was looking forward to seeing more of him in the ODI.