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[Cricket] Your Test Team from the last 20 years
- Thread starter Pogue Mahone
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Thorpe retired immediately before the 2005 Ashes, after Pietersen was preferred in the squad for Lords.
With hindsight, we should have picked Thorpe over Bell (notwithstanding his fielding at short leg), but Bell averaged 297 in tests going into that series so it was probably a fair call.
Anyway, Thorpe was great. In fact, of players to have played a significant number of innings in the last 20 years, he has the 2nd highest average after Harry Brook:
Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
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Wow, I genuinely thought he stopped playing for England earlier than that.Thorpe retired immediately before the 2005 Ashes, after Pietersen was preferred in the squad for Lords.
With hindsight, we should have picked Thorpe over Bell (notwithstanding his fielding at short leg), but Bell averaged 297 in tests going into that series so it was probably a fair call.
Anyway, Thorpe was great. In fact, of players to have played a significant number of innings in the last 20 years, he has the 2nd highest average after Harry Brook:
Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
He was a quality player wasn’t he?! I love the story that he was right handed but learnt to bat left handed to make it harder for his brother to bowl at him. I remember trying to do the same when I heard about that without the same level of success!
Do you know how he is health wise now?
Ben Stokes and sixes!Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
No, there doesn't seem to have been a public update since he went to hospital last year.
That Broad is 4th on the 6s list suggests it's not a great measure of quality.
