‘Gone far too younger…’: Graham Thorpe remembered by previous and current cricketers | Cricket Information

NEW DELHI: Cricketers from the previous and current, together with Ben Stokes and Michael Vaughan, paid their respects to former England participant and coach Graham Thorpe, who handed away on the age of 55.
“RIP Thorpey .. Thanks for all the recommendation all through my profession,you have been a terrific participant and an excellent crew mate.You’ve gone far too younger however you permit as an England cricket legend … Ideas with all who knew Thorpey and to all of the household xxx,” wrote Vaughan, the previous England captain, on ‘X’.

Present England Check captain Ben Stokes posted an image of him sporting a jersey with “Thorpe 564”, the latter’s Check cap quantity, written on the again with a sequence of 5 pink coronary heart emojis.

Between 1993 and 2005, Thorpe performed 100 Check matches for England, scoring 6,744 runs at a mean of 44.66, together with 16 lots of. Aside from representing Surrey within the home circuit from 1988 to 2005, he additionally performed 82 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) for England, amassing 2,380 runs at a mean of 37.18, together with 21 half-centuries, as per IANS.
“Heartbreaking to see Thorpey has handed away. He was one in every of my heroes rising up and I used to be lucky to work with him. My ideas exit to all of his family and friends throughout this robust time,” wrote Duckett, the present England opener, on ‘X’.

“Unhappy to listen to about Graham Thorpe. He was a gritty and a implausible batter who was all the time prepared for a battle on the pitch. Heartfelt condolences to his family and friends,” wrote former India leg-spinner Anil Kumble on ‘X’.

“Such tragic information about Graham Thorpe, performed with and in opposition to the little legend because the age of 10, nice participant and human being, so younger, ideas along with his household and pals x,” wrote former England spinner Shaun Udal on ‘X’.

Earlier than spending two years again at Surrey as their batting coach, Thorpe began his teaching profession in Australia with the New South Wales crew, the place he labored with gamers like David Warner and Steve Smith.
Later, he turned a nationwide lead batting coach for the ECB, the place he labored with youthful improvement squads in addition to the England Lions. Thorpe was appointed batting coach in 2013 for the senior England males’s white-ball squad, which went on to win the 2019 ODI World Cup in their very own nation.
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Thorpe assisted Chris Silverwood as an assistant coach and even stuffed in as short-term head coach for England’s Twenty20 worldwide sequence in opposition to Pakistan. Thrope was fired from his place after England misplaced the Ashes 0-4. In March 2022, he was named Afghanistan’s new head coach, however he turned gravely in poor health and was unable to just accept the place.