Chris Tremlett departs for English Academy in Australia

Hampshire seamer Chris Tremlett sets off for the England Academy in Adelaide, Austraila on Sunday, with the main brief to retain his fitness after missing much of the latter part of the season with a stress fracture of the metatarsal bone in his left foot.

Tremlett (21) is still a month away from serious fitness training, but it will give the tall cricketer a chance to work on his batting. A clean hitter of the ball he is hoping that an improvement in that department will turn him into an all-rounder.

He will not be able to bowl till after the Christmas break.

Tremlett speaking to the Daily Echo reporter said: "I know I've got the talent to be an all-rounder, it's just a question of working on certain aspects of my game."

Rod March, the Academy director visited the Rose Bowl in August to discuss his fitness programme with Hampshire's director of Cricket Tim Tremlett (his father) and physio Pat Farhart. Farhart will also be looking in on the Academy to check his progress.

Tremlett will not be fit enough to tour Sri Lanka with the rest of the Academy boys in February.

Tremlett will return home for Christmas, and will return to Adelaide for the last year there, it will be based at the art centre of excellence at Loughborough University next year.