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Interesting info on 2015 with Joe Root. 191 days spent in hotels this year. One home cooked meal from mum. Not easy and not conducive to family life.

Another interesting point, Root went through 20 bats this year. Blimey, they don't last do they.

No doubt golfers will have similar stats. It looks a dream job but there is a tough side to it as well.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35154874

Interesting info on 2015 with Joe Root. 191 days spent in hotels this year. One home cooked meal from mum. Not easy and not conducive to family life.

Another interesting point, Root went through 20 bats this year. Blimey, they don't last do they.

No doubt golfers will have similar stats. It looks a dream job but there is a tough side to it as well.
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TBH, it's a job and it's one he's really well paid for. I've had years where I've spent more time in hotels (spent almost a year in one particular hotel) than that. It's tedious, but at least his surroundings were changing. Also, 191 days in hotels. I'm assuming that he's been home for the rest, yet he's only been for one meal at his mum's?
 
When you are away that much does it start to become a drudge though? After a while one hotel room starts to look like another. He has not put this together and is not looking for sympathy. I thought it was an interesting look at the realities of life as a top cricketer. A few years at the top doing that is okay but 10yrs plus must be hard going on family life. Perhaps Cook has been lucky in that now he misses the one day stuff and so will not spend as long away. Root and some others play every form.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
When you are away that much does it start to become a drudge though? After a while one hotel room starts to look like another. He has not put this together and is not looking for sympathy. I thought it was an interesting look at the realities of life as a top cricketer. A few years at the top doing that is okay but 10yrs plus must be hard going on family life. Perhaps Cook has been lucky in that now he misses the one day stuff and so will not spend as long away. Root and some others play every form.
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Indeed. I think it can be a dangerous game writing these articles as people instantly jump on the bandwagon of getting paid for something they love in nice places etc. However, we only see one side of it. We don't see all the bits and pieces that go on behind the scenes. I cant imagine that Joe and his teammates are sat on a beach every day when they are not playing.

And at what point does a something you love become just a job once the novelty wears off? Don't get me wrong, it seems a great life but perhaps not quite as great as some people think.

(Queue the old school brigade pontificating about how in their day they played for 12 hours a day, 370 days a year, didn't see their kids from the time they were born until they left home and when tours lasted 18 months!)
 
Lord Tyrion said:
When you are away that much does it start to become a drudge though? After a while one hotel room starts to look like another. He has not put this together and is not looking for sympathy. I thought it was an interesting look at the realities of life as a top cricketer. A few years at the top doing that is okay but 10yrs plus must be hard going on family life. Perhaps Cook has been lucky in that now he misses the one day stuff and so will not spend as long away. Root and some others play every form.
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Yes it does. Living out of a suitcase is a right pain. I've been invited out on a hotels Christmas do as I'd been there longer than half the staff! It just irritates when people write these articles to try to show how hard done to they are, when there are lots of people in the same or worse boat. My old job sounded great (I did the IT support for a large travel firm, which also included resort support) but once you get settled in, it's just a job. I know quite a few of my mates who might get 2 or 3 weekends at home a month and that's it. But it's what they have to do to put a roof over their heads. Kids need socks and shoes and all that.
 
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Duckster said:
Yes it does. Living out of a suitcase is a right pain. I've been invited out on a hotels Christmas do as I'd been there longer than half the staff! It just irritates when people write these articles to try to show how hard done to they are, when there are lots of people in the same or worse boat. My old job sounded great (I did the IT support for a large travel firm, which also included resort support) but once you get settled in, it's just a job. I know quite a few of my mates who might get 2 or 3 weekends at home a month and that's it. But it's what they have to do to put a roof over their heads. Kids need socks and shoes and all that.
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Did you stay at the Linton Travel Tavern and dress up like a zombie ???
 
Lord Tyrion said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35154874

Interesting info on 2015 with Joe Root. 191 days spent in hotels this year. One home cooked meal from mum. Not easy and not conducive to family life.

Another interesting point, Root went through 20 bats this year. Blimey, they don't last do they.

No doubt golfers will have similar stats. It looks a dream job but there is a tough side to it as well.
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As apposed to being homeless and living on the streets[yes really tough][sarcasm].
 
Sorry but they are earning millions each year , playing a sport they love and have a nice life.
 
All the money in the world and first class travel doesn't guarantee a healthy mind though does it, not every top class sportsmen/women cope with the lifestyle, but it's all they know and all they're are any good at.
Don't like to judge any top sportsmen or women, we have no real idea what pressures they are coping with and I'm sure there are people in this world born into these lifestyles doing a whole lot less and paying less taxes etc.
Sportsmen and women can be very easy targets.
 
Lifestyles of golfers and cricketers > lifestyles of MMA fighters, professional wrestlers and boxers. Combat sports come with the most brutal of lifestyles. Having to live in a plush hotel a hundred days a year while getting to play Cricket for a living is nothing.
 
Dan2501 said:
Lifestyles of golfers and cricketers > lifestyles of MMA fighters, professional wrestlers and boxers. Combat sports come with the most brutal of lifestyles. Having to live in a plush hotel a hundred days a year while getting to play Cricket for a living is nothing.
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Risk and choices with all sports Dan, that's the problem with how we perceive it.
 
What about all those up and down the country spending far longer in Travel Inn's etc just to put a crust on the table? If he's looking for sympathy...
 
Dan2501 said:
Lifestyles of golfers and cricketers > lifestyles of MMA fighters, professional wrestlers and boxers. Combat sports come with the most brutal of lifestyles. Having to live in a plush hotel a hundred days a year while getting to play Cricket for a living is nothing.
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You ever been hit by a hardened lump of leather travelling at over 80mph? It bloody hurts!
 
Hobbit said:
What about all those up and down the country spending far longer in Travel Inn's etc just to put a crust on the table? If he's looking for sympathy...
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He's not done the article Bri, it's simply his life this year in numbers by the BBC, I very much doubt he's had anything to do with it or even knew about it, hence my comment about judging the sportsmen/women.
 
pauldj42 said:
He's not done the article Bri, it's simply his life this year in numbers by the BBC, I very much doubt he's had anything to do with it or even knew about it, hence my comment about judging the sportsmen/women.
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Would have helped if I'd read the article first. I was going to say that I'm not far behind him in hotel stays, and 3 different countries last week don't make for a great home life. Mind you, for x millions a year I might just man up and give it a go.
 
Hobbit said:
Would have helped if I'd read the article first. I was going to say that I'm not far behind him in hotel stays, and 3 different countries last week don't make for a great home life. Mind you, for x millions a year I might just man up and give it a go.
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Me too, I wouldn't giving it a 2 year try for that money😃
 
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