Honoured during the lunch interval of Somerset's last county championship match of the season which also happens to be his last professional game, former England opener Marcus Trescothick said he dreaded the end of his playing career for a long time but also knows "it's time" to move on in life. 

"I guess I've been quite scared about it [retirement] for a long period of time, but once we made the choice it was going to happen this year I could start to plan and move on," Trescothick told ESPNcricinfo. 

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"I'm well and truly over playing. I've had enough of going out there and working out how to try to bat. It's hard work. I've made that switch into coaching and that's really helped me."

"There may be hard times along the way when I'm really trying to get to grips with it, but the time is definitely right. I feel I've almost made that switch already."

Trescothick said he knew the end is near and was in discussions with the coaching staff last winter about it before finally confirming he'll retire after a 27-season-long career for Somerset at the end of this summer. 

"We [Trescothick and the coaching team] were communicating all winter and at the start of the summer, knowing when it was going to be. I knew it was there." 

"I knew it was done [during a game in Guildford and after five Championship matches had brought a highest score of 23] at that point and then the coach Jason Kerr - who is a good mate - came to me and said, 'Right, we're going to give you a rest.' Which was the right thing to do," he added. 

"It wasn't ever going to be tricky because I knew. They knew. We'd been communicating and looking after it for a long period of time. I knew it was going to be happening soon."

"The last thing you want to do is be in the way of someone who is going to have their moment," he said. "If I'd been scoring runs left right and centre, doing what was needed, then fair enough, it might have been different. But the game and the club have given me great times and I thank them for that. It's time."

(Inputs from ESPNcricinfo)