Tait relates to Symonds stress

Shaun Tait went fishing to recover from his mental and physical exhaustion and he tells Malcolm Conn in the Australian he expects Andrew Symonds to do the same. Symonds is deciding what to do with his future after being sent home from Australia’s series with Bangladesh for wetting a line instead of attending a team meeting.

While their circumstances are different, Tait can relate to the pressure and stresses of international cricket which forced him to walk away from the game in January physically and mentally exhausted. "Symo has played a hell of a lot of cricket over the last few years and he's often played with injuries," Tait said.

"He's got a massive profile in Australia, which obviously puts him under a fair bit of pressure and last summer he copped a fair bit of flak, so it's probably put him off a bit. I'm sure he'll be right. Maybe a couple of months off will be exactly what he needs.

"If you're in that bad a place mentally and with your cricket, there's nothing wrong with having a bit of a break if you're seriously not with it. I'm sure there are enough players around to fill spots.”