Dernbach opens up on Maynard loss
Jade Dernbach has opened up about the death of his Surrey team-mate Tom Maynard
ESPNcricinfo staff
28-Apr-2013
Speaking to Sam Peters in the Daily Mail, Jade Dernbach has opened up about the death of his Surrey team-mate Tom Maynard. Dernbach says the inquest into Maynard's death has helped him "draw a line in the sand" and backs plans for greater testing for recreational drugs among cricketers. Maynard was found to have taken cocaine and ecstasy before his death but Dernbach says it was not something those close to him knew about:
I ask myself if I should have spotted something. Should I have seen the signs that Tommy was taking drugs? But in a professional environment you just don't think that sort of thing happens. Just because someone is a different character, do you have to say, "You're a bit extrovert, do you take drugs?" Where do you draw the line?
'People say, "Why didn't you know?" I understand that but hundreds of people came in contact with Tommy over his life and nobody knew. I don't know enough about drugs to understand what the signs are. If nobody else had an idea, why should I have done? I'd stood next to Tom and seen him do a drug test. It never entered my mind that he was taking anything.