{"id":41841,"date":"2025-08-03T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/41841\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:15:11","slug":"test-match-breakfast-david-warners-cheeky-dig-at-joe-root-the-dangers-of-covering-cricket-and-why-the-graham-thorpe-tribute-fundraiser-could-become-annual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/41841\/","title":{"rendered":"TEST MATCH BREAKFAST: David Warner’s cheeky dig at Joe Root, the dangers of covering cricket, and why the\u00a0Graham Thorpe tribute fundraiser could become ANNUAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Test Match Breakfast takes a look at some of the biggest issues around cricket during England’s huge fifth Test against India<\/a> at The Oval.<\/p>\n

Here, RICHARD GIBSON discusses David Warner<\/a>‘s dig at Joe Root<\/a>, the dangers of covering cricket, and the charity success of the Graham Thorpe tributes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Warner’s jab at Joe Root\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Warner’s\u00a0pre-Ashes sledge on Saturday was met by a swift retort from his old nemesis Stuart Broad<\/a> in a reminder that England\u2019s next Test after this takes place in Perth<\/a> in 121 days\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

In an interview with BBC<\/a> Sport promoting his participation in the Hundred, former Australia<\/a> opener Warner had a pop at England\u2019s – and according to official rankings, the world\u2019s – best batsman Joe Root.<\/p>\n

Discussing England\u2019s prospects, Warner said: \u2018The big anchor there is Rooty, who is yet to score a hundred in Australia.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hinting that the Yorkshireman gets out leg before wicket a lot, he added: \u2018Josh Hazlewood tends to have his number quite a lot. He will have to take the surfboard off his front leg.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, Broad countered: \u2018Just for clarity. Hazelwood has got Rooty LBW in Test Cricket three times. Three.\u2019<\/p>\n

And the former England international certainly knows about bowlers having holds on batsmen – having dismissed Warner 17 times in Tests before retiring on this ground two years ago.<\/p>\n

\"David \"David <\/p>\n

David Warner (left) hit out at Joe Root (right) for not yet scoring a hundred in Australia<\/p>\n

The perils of covering cricket\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reporting on cricket carries its dangers. Believe me, being clocked on the head with a ball unawares hurts.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, after the throbbing from the blow I took on the boundary edge in Barbados from a sky-scraping Jos Buttler strike subsided, the hit to the professional pride kicked in.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the looking like a chump that you don\u2019t live down. Media colleagues creating their own memes ensures that.<\/p>\n

So, Neil Manthorp, who had a bit of a \u2018Del Boy\u2019 moment summarising the second day\u2019s play with his talkSPORT colleague Jon Norman, can expect similar treatment over the coming days after starring on X.<\/p>\n

Perching on a gate on the boundary edge, he was there one moment, gone the next, crashing to the turf seconds after the camera was set rolling.<\/p>\n

He couldn\u2019t say he wasn\u2019t warned. Norman had begun the post-play filming by securing the gate, with the words: \u2018We don\u2019t want an Only Fools and Horses.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Covering <\/p>\n

Covering cricket is all fun and games until you get hit on the head by an unexpected ball!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who Kumar Dharmasena reminds me of<\/p>\n

Kumar Dharmasena evoked memories of legendary West Indies umpire Steve Bucknor with his glacial raising of the finger when Ravindra Jadeja was pinged on the boot by a full bunger in late afternoon.<\/p>\n

It took what seemed an eternity for Sri Lankan official Dharmasena to answer Josh Tongue\u2019s appeal in the affirmative, emulating Bucknor – nicknamed Slow Death for his trademark style.<\/p>\n

The extra time for deliberation was justified by Jadeja\u2019s review, however, replays showing that the contact between the swinging delivery and the Indian left-hander\u2019s foot took place outside off-stump.<\/p>\n

Thorpey’s day could be annual\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than \u00a3150,000 was raised for mental health in the name of Graham Thorpe following Friday\u2019s \u2018A Day For Thorpey.\u2019<\/p>\n

In addition to the sale of 20,000-plus headbands, straight donations to Mind exceeded \u00a335,000.<\/p>\n

Surrey and Mind will now discus the prospect of making the day an annual event.<\/p>\n

\"Headbands <\/p>\n

Headbands and donations in memory of Graham Thorpe have raised so much for Mind that they are considering making the tribute day annual<\/p>\n

\"Thorpe, <\/p>\n

Thorpe, who played in 100 test matches for England and scored 6,744 runs, died last year<\/p>\n

A pantomime feel\u00a0<\/p>\n

The evening session took on a pantomime feel when Jadeja got distracted by a man wearing a red shirt at the pavilion end, directly behind the bowling arm of Jamie Overton.<\/p>\n

Cue, Surrey officials racing round a club replica shirt to cover it.<\/p>\n

To add to the farce, a boy then appeared two rows away in an another red shirt. Presumably, in hope of getting his own freebie.<\/p>\n

As they don\u2019t say in these parts: Shy bairns get nowt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Test Match Breakfast takes a look at some of the biggest issues around cricket during England’s huge fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,97,1722,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-41841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-dailymail","tag-england-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}