Cricket-Trott’s ‘con’ disrespectful of real illness – Vaughan

Jonathan Trott’s assertion that mental and physical fatigue had forced him home from England’s Ashes tour of Australia rather than depression felt like a “con” and would only convince his team mates he had abandoned them, according to former England captain Michael Vaughan. Team officials cited a long-standing “stress-related illness” as the cause. “I feel a little bit conned we were told Jonathan Trott’s problems in Australia were a stress-related illness he had suffered for years,” Vaughan wrote in his column in Monday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. “He was obviously not in a great place but he was struggling for cricketing reasons and not mental, and there is a massive difference.” Vaughan added that depression was a debilitating illness and for Trott to use terms like “crazy” or “nutcase” in his interview only disrespected those who suffered from it.