Sport 17-11-2000 Cricket: Thorpe Scores Remarkable Record who: England cricket team what: Declare 480-8 after Thorpe century where: Pakistan when: Today snippet: On the third day of the First Test in Lahore, England have returned to form, declaring their first innings on 480-8 at lunch today. Yesterday Graham Thorpe and Craig White "rewrote the record books," says Derek Pringle in The Independent. With England already on 225 despite conceding four wickets on the afternoon of the first day, White joined Thorpe to score 166 runs - the most ever in a Test between England and Pakistan. "Like the right-left combination of Michael Atherton and Marcus Trescothick on day one," he reports, "the pair complemented each other, with Thorpe`s century of hard graft a perfect foil for White`s bold, clean striking at the other end". Thorpe`s inning of 118 was remarkable for its slow progress (he was eventually caught out after seven hours). "Never has any batsman toiled as he did," notes Michael Henderson in The Telegraph. "His hundred was the first in Test history - all 123 years of it - that featured only one boundary hit". That`s 1,513 Test matches, The Sun`s John Etheridge tells dedicated sporting trivia fans. And if you must know, "Thorpe`s seventh century for England included 51 ones, 12 twos, seven threes and that one boundary." [... more]

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