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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.RIP to a great batsman. Such a shame. According to David Gower on Radio 4 this morning, it was not a surprise to those close to him. A cryptic press release on May 10 2022 said:
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Graham Thorpe has recently fallen seriously ill and is currently in hospital receiving treatment. His prognosis is unclear at this stage and we ask for privacy for him and his family at this time. Our thoughts are with Graham and his family.
RIP to a great man and cricketer.
I got to play alongside him in Shanghai - we organised the first match between Shanghai and Hong Kong since 1959 - we were on a hiding to nothing as the HK team was stuffed full of county-equivalent players. My next-door neighbour who ran Barings at the time, knew Roopie and out he came as a ringer - we lost but honourably! He came across as being very nice indeed.
The trophy by the way was the old plaque off the Royal Shanghai CC - when you ask an expat what they would take with them in an emergency evacuation after clothing and important papers, most folk would reply 'photos'....not this bachelor who went down to the cricket club and unscrewed the plaque off the wall to carry it out of China with him!
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