Clean break invigorates Tremlett

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Surrey’s new fast bowler Chris Tremlett hopes to buy into the cultural shift in progress at the Brit Oval, and use it to force his way back into England contention.

The 28-year-old from Southampton has left Hampshire after almost a decade with his home county, following a season beset by injury.

He was limited to just seven matches in the LV= County Championship, and found his place under threat in the second part of the season.

“I’m looking forward to joining in with the culture here,” Tremlett told Surrey TV on the day of his signing.

“I’ve been slightly involved with a similar thing at Hampshire. It was known as a ‘happy larry’ club, and we changed that around.

“Chris Adams is trying to do a similar thing, and get the club back to where it was when they were very successful.

“He wants to take the club in the right way, and there’s a strong back-up coaching staff with (batting coach) Graham Thorpe and (fast bowling coach) Martin Bicknell.”

Tremlett is blessed with a height most fast bowlers dream of; at close to 6ft 8in he is able to extract lift in the way the great quick men like Curtly Ambrose used to.

Blessed with extreme height, Chris Tremlett has left the stable of Hampshire for a new challenge at Surrey from this season

He hopes the Brit Oval surface, so useful to Steve Harmison in England’s victory against South Africa in 2008, can be replicated in 2010.

The statisticians would reckon he has his work cut out - not one Surrey bowler took more than Jade Dernbach’s 37 wickets in 2009, and the county failed to win in the championship at home.

But Tremlett is sufficiently encouraged: “The times I’ve played here it has gone through. You’d hope with my attributes being 6ft 8in, to get a bit of bounce.

“In the last couple of years the Rose Bowl has got a bit flatter. It will be nice to bowl on wickets that help me. Hopefully I can take lots of wickets."

Tremlett has not given up on England. Having played three Test matches, all versus India in 2007, he believes there is still a potential place for him.

“If I’m honest, it’s good to have a new challenge. I still have England aspirations.

“I just want to get over my injury problems, and a change of scenery could do me good.”