text: Steve Peters, the sports psychiatrist called on by a number of top stars, will play a key role in keeping troubled England batsman Jonathan Trott focused in the Caribbean. Trott has made a nightmare return to the Test side 18 months since situational anxieties saw him quit the Ashes tour — falling cheaply in both innings in the first Test in Antigua and finding his ‘on the move’ batting technique under strong scrutiny. It is understood that Trott is having regular Skype sessions with Peters from the team hotel, and he credits the psychiatrist with helping him overcome his mental health issues to win his Test place back. Jonathan Trott has endured a nightmare return to Test cricket with some poor performances in the first Test . But the double failure will be a big challenge for Trott, with Peters’s assistance, to continue ‘to keep a proper prospective on life and cricket’ which he said he was doing before the Test, rather than having ‘unrealistic expectations about his batting,’ which he had in Australia. Peters, whose other clients include the England football team, Liverpool, British Cycling and snooker’s Ronnie O’Sullivan, will no doubt be telling Trott to manage his inner chimp — the part of the brain that runs on emotions and gut instincts in contrast to the rational, evidence-based part. Despite his success with multi-Olympic champions Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton, Peters didn’t do anything to improve England during their dismal 2014 football World Cup but is still involved on an ad hoc basis. Steve Peters (right) worked with the England football team during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . The England team under Peter Moores have a more relaxed attitude towards the players’ use of social media than previous regimes. All-rounder Ben Stokes took to Twitter, after taking a wicket with a no-ball in the West Indies first innings, to comment: ‘Tweets about the no-ball flooding in, so tomorrow I won’t try, bowl four feet behind the line and bowl 70 mph... then you’re all happy’. Despite the provocative tweet, for which he later apologised, the England camp had no complaint. Instead they were pleased that one of the players had showed some character. England batsman Ben Stokes plays a sweeping shot during day four of the first Test in Antigua . Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove’s biggest ambition in cricket is to see an Ashes Test match at his beloved Ageas Bowl ground, which he was mainly responsible for building and funding. However, it will be 2023 at the earliest before Bransgrove has a chance of fulfilling his dream. And ironically ECB representative Bransgrove has been watching the first Test in Antigua alongside former ECB chairman David Morgan, highly influential in Hampshire rivals Glamorgan hosting Ashes games in 2009 and 2015. And since Bransgrove was one of Giles Clarke’s major opponents during his autocratic ECB reign, that didn’t help Hampshire’s chances either. Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove (left) wants to see an Ashes Test match at the Ageas Bowl ground . Peter Salmon, director of BBC England, made a surprise appearance in the Test Match Special booth at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium. However, Salmon had not flown out to the Caribbean at licence fee payers’ expense, just to check whether Joe Wilson’s hard-working BBC sports team were giving value for money. He happened to be on holiday in Antigua. SIR VIV: THIS IS SURREAL . Coming across Sir Vivian Richards, King of Antigua, having a moment alone surveying the Test match scene, Sports Agenda asked him what it was like, watching cricket at a ground named after you and where your statue stands. ‘It’s surreal,’ said Richards. ‘You have to pinch yourself.’ The striking Richards statue, by acclaimed Cuban sculptor Andres Gonzalez, was funded by Fidel Castro’s Cuban government to mark 20 years of diplomatic accord between the two islands. Meanwhile, England’s intense batting coach Mark Ramprakash is taking a surprising interest in Cuban politics. He tweeted: ‘Glad the US has finally taken Cuba off the terror list and relations between the two countries are improving.’ Ex-England Rugby 2015 chief executive Debbie Jevans attended Thursday’s Football League board meeting . Debbie Jevans, the former England Rugby 2015 chief executive whose falling out with the RFU led to her walking out on her job — six months before the World Cup — has made her first public appearance since that Twickenham storm. She attended Thursday’s Football League board meeting in her role as an independent director and played a full part in the discussions.
target: Jonathan Trott has struggled on his Test comeback against West Indies .
  Ben Stokes took to Twitter to voice his frustration with a no-ball call .
  Former England Rugby 2015 chief executive Debbie Jevans has made her first public appearance since that Twickenham storm .