David Gower pays tribute to Graham Thorpe
Former England cricket captain David Gower has paid tribute to Former England and Surrey batter Graham Thorpe after his death at age 55. Mr Gower described Mr Thorpe as "one of England's best batsmen."
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00:00Well Graham took over in a sense took over from me if I can put it that way
00:05because his first Test match was 1993 the Ashes series of 1993 as space came
00:11up in the side I don't quite liked it to be honest but I was injured and so he
00:16got to play the Test match at Trent Bridge third of the series and made a
00:19hundred so that's what's known as taking your chance with both hands and he
00:23played played beautifully and for the next 12 13 years he was one of England's
00:28best batsmen he made runs against the pace bowlers and there was still some
00:32very good pace bowlers in the West Indies Ambrose and Walsh McGrath from
00:35Australia and he played them with skill and bravery and he also made runs
00:40against two of the greatest spinners of all time in Shane Warn and Mattia
00:45Muraliturin and making runs in Colombo against Murali took a lot of skill he
00:50was one of the few England batsmen actually to work it out and work a
00:53method that was successful against Murali and then he was able to pass that
00:57on to the others alongside him