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How game’s best banded together for Thorpe tribute

August 02, 2025

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Daily Express

WHITE headbands were once the province of Bjorn Borg or John McEnroe in a golden age of tennis at Wimbledon.

- By Mike Walters

But on the day English cricket remembered tragic Graham Thorpe, it was the must-have fashion accessory among cricket fans paying tribute to the finest player never to win the Ashes.

On what would have been his 56th birthday, Surrey’s poignant Day for Thorpe was a reminder that some things are more important than runs, wickets and catches.

It was a year ago, almost to the day, that the awful news broke that Thorpe — one of only 17 men to win 100 Test caps for England — succumbed to a prolonged battle with depression and anxiety.

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