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Former England batter Thorpe dies aged 55
culpepperboy
2024-08-05 08:21:55
Former England and Surrey batter Graham Thorpe has died aged 55, the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced.
Thorpe played 100 Tests for England between 1993 and 2005, as well as 82 one-day internationals.
A stylish left-handed batter, he scored 6,744 Test runs for England, including 16 centuries, at an average of 44.66.
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KTom
2024-08-05 10:11:53
In reply to culpepperboy
He averaged over 50 in his last couple of years in Tests but was unseated for the 2005 Ashes because there was such a clamour to get Pietersen into the Test team. Hussain had stepped aside the previous year for Strauss, but Thorpe was less obliging.
He seemed a private figure, so I'm surprised to discover that he wrote an autobiography of sorts:
Graham Thorpe’s achievements on the cricket field contrasted wildly with his personal problems, where drink and depression combined to send him spiralling off the rails. This is his brutally honest life story, including his dramatic retirement from Test cricket, and updated to include England’s 2005 Ashes win, and his new coaching career.
Graham Thorpe was one of the best batsmen in world cricket for more than a decade. Yet the national press hounded him as 'English cricket's most disturbed player' for pulling out of a series of tours and turning his back on the game more than once.
With painful candour and often unexpected humour, Thorpe dissects his career in cricket and the inner recesses of his private life: the impact of his bitter divorce; the suicidal depression that afflicted him in his darkest hours; the reasons why he needed to 'save himself' by withdrawing from past England tours; the elation of his magnificent century on his comeback Test at the Oval in 2003; and his fresh outlook in life with a new partner after confronting his own failings and past troubles.
Twelve years on from his Test debut against Australia, Thorpe took the decision to retire from international cricket after the disappointment of his controversial non-selection for the Ashes 2005 tour.
StumpCam
2024-08-05 10:46:58
55?? Man, that is young!
May his soul RIP.
InHindsight
2024-08-05 10:51:46
Sad to hear. I remember Thorpe being one of the resolute batter when coming up again a still formidable WI bowling attack. My memories of him as a better stand out more favourably than Arthur ton or Hussain.
As I compose this here I haven't read other article cited by culpeperboy.
I feel sad when people we've 'known' die prematurely.
Chrissy
2024-08-05 11:00:18
In reply to culpepperboy
Damn - what a shock even though he was ill for two years.
Way too young.
FanAttick
2024-08-05 11:41:20
In reply to Chrissy
RIP..he was a tough cookie…had some legendary battles against Walsh and Ambrose
pooranian
2024-08-05 12:10:12
Rip...gentleman cricketer.. technically sound batsman..
WIForever
2024-08-05 13:21:22
Rest in peace. Idolized him quite a bit in the 90s.
Elsie
2024-08-05 13:54:25
I watched Thorpe scored a century at Kensington in 2004 against W.I..
Out of a low England total..
RIP..
CCW
2024-08-05 14:16:50
Classy middle order batsman....will always remember the look on his face when he was bamboozled an seemed to lose a full toss delivery from Amby that bowled him it was when England was bowled for 46.....nevertheless he was one of England's best ...may he r.i.p.
StumpCam
2024-08-05 14:59:09
In reply to CCW
Thought that was Walsh who bowled the slower delivery!
KTom
2024-08-05 15:01:23
In reply to StumpCam
My memory is that it wasn't a slower delivery or a full toss, but kept wickedly low.
KTom
2024-08-05 15:05:45
In reply to culpepperboy
Brief highlights of Thorpe's 1993 debut hundred at Trent Bridge (available to UK users only). Noteworthy are the fact that he took 262 balls to reach it, and that the ground was decidely less than full for an Ashes Test.
imusic
2024-08-05 15:21:44
Sad news. That was a warrior in the cricket field right there.
Always a prize wicket to get whenever we played them.
RIP Graeme Thorpe and condolences to his loved ones
KTom
2024-08-05 15:23:14
In reply to imusic
Graham Gooch and Thorpe. Graeme Fowler and Hick.
Ridge
2024-08-05 15:36:14
Sad indeed. So young. RIP.
CCW
2024-08-05 15:39:44
In reply to StumpCam
nah was definitely Amby!!
Narper
2024-08-05 15:53:16
Another one goes relatively young.
Condolences to the Thorpe's family
RIP Graham Thorpe
StumpCam
2024-08-05 15:54:58
In reply to CCW
nah was definitely Amby!!
Guess you’re right
tops
2024-08-05 16:39:23
In reply to StumpCam
"Thought that was Walsh who bowled the slower delivery!"
I rem Walsh got him about 3 times in success in Eng. 55 is way too young though. Classy batsman.
CCW
2024-08-05 17:46:47
In reply to StumpCam
I remember that also but wasn't what I was referring to.....it was the 46 all out when he was clean bowled by Amby an had a dazed look on his face when walking back...check it out!
goliath
2024-08-05 18:33:11
Sorry to hear. Classy batter. RIP
PalsofMine
2024-08-05 19:24:28
Condolences to his family. Was always a very resolute batsman. Wasnt he also the model??
hubert
2024-08-05 20:09:29
In reply to culpepperboy
Wow..so young...He was a wonderful soldier for England with some stirring duels against
Ambrose and Walsh.
RIP
TanteMerle
2024-08-06 00:05:54
In reply to CCW
Skip forward to 6:47. Not a slower ball
Amby did get Thorpe who look bewildered, but not a slower ball
or a ball that really kept low.
Just bad batting: back instead of forward.
Walcsh actually got Thorpe with slower ball, not once but twice.
One of the links is already posted here.
RIP Thorpe.
My condolences to his family.
Arlo
2024-08-06 00:51:26
RIP Graham Thorpe. Gone too soon
ducks
2024-08-06 01:16:38
In reply to StumpCam
https://youtu.be/EN3dIYpf6bI
Argument done
ducks
2024-08-06 01:19:01
In reply to ducks
This was the second occasion and i trust my memory
TanteMerle
2024-08-06 08:32:34
In reply to ducks
You are spot on.
I said in my earlier post that Walsh bamboozled Thorpe not once but twice with the slower delivery.
positiveg
2024-08-06 18:48:23
Jumpstart
2024-08-06 18:51:18
In reply to TanteMerle
55 is no age to go out at. dude barely lived. i mean i know there are guys who died younger. warne and maco didn't live to 55, but its still a young age to die at
powen001
2024-08-06 20:49:01
In reply to culpepperboy
Read it today- Condolences to his family
