Phil Walker pays tribute to the life and profession of the good Surrey and England left-hander, an everyman hero touched by magic
Cricket’s household grasps the barrier, steadies itself, reels once more. The nice left-hander Graham Thorpe has died. He was 55.
A veteran of 100 Exams – considered one of simply 17 English gamers to realize the feat – and maker of 16 Take a look at lots of between 1993 and 2005, Thorpe was essentially the most full English batter of the age, equally adept on the crackling minefields of Kandy and Colombo as in opposition to the ultra-quicks on sun-baked slabs of Australian tarmac. …
