Trott played again in the 5th Test at Melbourne, which England won to win the Ashes, chasing down a target of 297 runs in the second innings with only four wickets down.

Albert's brother, Harry Trott, was named captain of the Australian team which toured England in 1896.

In England, Trott joined the ground staff at Lord's with a view to qualifying by residence to play for Middlesex.

Despite missing a month due to an injured hand, he took 102 wickets in his first season, forming a formidable bowling partnership with J. T. Hearne.

Between December 1898 and April 1899, Trott took part in a tour of South Africa organised by Lord Hawke.

[6] The ball hit a chimney and fell into the garden outside the house of Philip Need, the Lord's dressing room attendant.

[8] Only two months earlier, playing for Middlesex against Sussex, Trott had hit a lofted drive from Fred Tate into the ironwork at the top of one of the pavilion towers.

A true student of the game, Trott's bowling relied less on pace than it did on guile and spin; his variations ensured that a batsman rarely faced the same ball twice in an over.

His weight increased rapidly and he lost mobility, so he could not bowl the very fast ball that was so deadly in his early years.

By 1905, he was extremely expensive and ineffective (taking only 62 wickets), and only in the very dry summer of 1906 did his batting reach the levels of his early years with Middlesex.

Shortly afterwards, one day before the 15th anniversary of his famous strike over the pavilion at Lord's, he shot himself in Willesden Green, Middlesex.