Phil Walker pays tribute to the life and career of Surrey and England’s greatest left-armer, a hero to all who have been touched by magic.
The cricket family is holding onto the wall, stabilizing themselves, and then reeling again. The great left-hander Graham Thorpe has died. He was 55.
A veteran of 100 Test matches and one of only 17 England players to reach the feat, Thorpe scored 16 Test hundreds between 1993 and 2005, making him the most complete English batsman of his time. He was equally adept at bowling fastballs on the sun-baked Australian tarmac as he was in the minefields of Kandy and Colombo. …
