PERHAPS JOE SHOULD TAKE LEAF OUT OF THORPE’S CONVERSION…

The England captain needs to join his batting contemporaries by going big after he passes fifty, says Derek Pringle

Root of the problem: England’s captain is not making the centuries like Virat Kohli or Kane Williamson

Up and down: But once Graham Thorpe worked out his conversion rate, he enjoyed a stellar England career

The game in general may honour those who make half-centuries, but in Test cricket it is the full blown thing, the hundred, which tends to win both favour and matches.
Converting one into the other is a challenge though one some batsmen find more difficult tha...

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