Prior development rooted in pain
England wicketkeeper Matt Prior describes the difficult period in 2007 when he was dropped from the Test side and what drove him to become one of his country's most reliable performers
ESPNcricinfo staff
11-May-2013
Talking to Paul Hayward in the Telegraph, England wicketkeeper Matt Prior describes the difficult period in 2007 when he was dropped from the Test side and what drove him to become one of his country's most reliable performers:
"After that first couple of weeks when I wanted to give up cricket, move to America, try baseball - all those ridiculous things that fly around your head - I started plotting. I just remember thinking: right, well, I'm going to have to perform to a level where they have no choice but to select me again. Pretty much everyone in the press said I was never going to play for England again, that was it.
"You ask yourself some of the toughest questions. Only you can answer them. You can use your sports psychologist, your family, your mentors, whoever it might be. But ultimately it's only you who can decide how you're going to react. If you make the decisions yourself it's far more powerful."