After four Tests on flat pitches that took bowlers from both teams to the brink and counted among its casualties – Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Jasprit Bumrah – The Oval which has been profoundly seam ...

It feels like yesterday. When Rob Key called, telling me he had some sad news, I instinctively knew what it was and yet, like everyone who knew Graham Thorpe, I was in shock.