Yardy flies home with depression

[0RI0N]

3rd Englishman in the last 10yrs iirc?
First Thorpey (divorce
?), then Tresco and now Yardy.
Go well son.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I see Rashid is cleared to replace him.

Well done ICC for acknowledging it as a valid reason to replace someone, you wonder if a few years ago England would have been told to do on when they enquired about replacing him.

 

[_Ed_]

He must not have been on the Ashes squad, right? So it's not as bad for him as it is for Swann, Strauss, Bell, Trott etc..

But he played domestic cricket in NZ during the Ashes.

Going home is absolutely the right thing to do if he's in a bad way. Must make it only worse if you're so far from home and family and friends, and also in a very foreign environment. Hope things get better for him soon.

 

[Howe_zat]

Mistake to call up Rashid. England need Davies to try and fix the top order, I doubt Rashid will play.

 

[Somerset Chops]

Glad that Rashid has been called up as i would of had him in the squad in the first place , i'ld throw him straight in the team for saturday.

 

[TT Boy]

Time Rashid arrives with the squad, England will be packing up their stuff and flying back home. Shame for Yardy, hope he didn't read all our supportive comments about him here!

 

[wpdavid]

Poor guy, hopefully he feels better soon.. What is it with cricketers and depression?

Have you come across Danid Frith's book about cricketers who have taken their own lives?

 

[Manee]

Hope he recovers quickly and thoroughly!

 

[Cevno]

Has to be the first time it has happened in the WC surely?

First Trescothik and now Yardy have both pulled out of tours of SC due to depression.

Btw, how do ICC check for such a thing to ensure it's a actual injury/problem?

 

[Nate]

Hoping he gets the help he needs.

 

[Lostman]

Have you come across Danid Frith's book about cricketers who have taken their own lives?

have read a lot of articles about it, but not the actual book.
An old one.

 

[Jarquis]

I wasn't a member when the Trescothick incident happened but I hope he wasn't subject to the same comments as Yardy here. Say what you want about his playing ability or the fact he wasn't 'even' in the Ashes squad the fact is the bloke's got depression. The finer intricacies are unknown to us but to me they're not important. Yardy's well being is the more important matter so I hope the best for him and that he gets all the support he needs.

 

[TT Boy]

Geoff Boycott sparks controversy with remarks on Mike Yardy depression | Sport | The Guardian

Blunt as ever!

 

[Uppercut]

Have you come across Danid Frith's book about cricketers who have taken their own lives?

Yeah, it looks interesting but I couldn't find a copy anywhere so I haven't read it.

 

[wpdavid]

Geoff Boycott sparks controversy with remarks on Mike Yardy depression | Sport | The Guardian

Blunt as ever!

And rather misguided, where he puts it down to simply not being good enough. Certainly wasn't the case with Trescothick, who had been in great form when it first became an issue late 2005.

tbf it sounds like he tried to backtrack a tad in the second interview.

 

[Bun]

Poor guy, hope everything gets better for him and he can return to the English side soon.

Really don't think it's appropriate to make jokes about this. Akmal's keeping is a funny thing, but depression is very much not.

Agreed.

 

[Howe_zat]

Boycott. Such a self-centred moron.

 

[Jono]

****, I'm really not a fan of seeing Yardy on the cricket field (got nothing against him personally obviously), but this is awful news.

Depression is such a complicated issue. Sad to see him leave a World Cup due to it. Sure he wasn't in the best XI anymore but all it would take is one injury and he'd almost be back in the fold. So for him to walk away from a World Cup it must be serious.

 

[zaremba]

Geoff Boycott sparks controversy with remarks on Mike Yardy depression | Sport | The Guardian

Blunt as ever!

His egocentricity is beyond parody. It's all about G. Boycott and how bloody great G. Boycott was and is. "I knew it, and I called it: Yardy isn't good enough. And now, look at me, I've been proved right. And by the way I was really bloody good at cricket." You couldn't ****ing make it up. What a complete ****.

 

[fredfertang]

Given what I have just read about Boycs in Fred Titmus's 2005 autobiography he ought to bear in mind the old "People in glasshouses...." saying

Or perhaps he thought Fred had taken the story to his grave