'I'm retired. Anything else is hypothetical'

Retired England batsman Marcus Trescothick says he could have considered returning to play a one-off Ashes Test if he had been given the option by the authorities.

"I'm retired, I'm done. No one has spoken to me or said anything to me on the issue. If I was asked, I don't know. If they threw questions at me, I would listen. But until they do, I can't answer," Trescothick said.

"I am just carrying on what I am doing at Somerset, carrying on playing. Anything else is hypothetical. It's always nice to be thought of but people are talking about it more than I am thinking about it," he was quoted as saying by 'The Sun'.

Trescothick had rejected an approach from Andrew Strauss earlier this summer because it would have meant him playing several Tests but sources close to the player say he is sufficiently relaxed to consider the possibility of a comeback for a single match.

England and Wales Cricket Board has already made it clear that Trescothick did not figure in their scheme of things after the 33-year-old, currently playing for Somerset, quit international cricket last year due to stress-related illness.

Trescothick is the leading scorer in first-class cricket this summer with 1,330 runs at 78.23 including six centuries for his county.