'Gnome' with the wind?

Test career

Matches: 77
Runs: 5109
Average: 41.87
Highest score: 200* v NZ in Christchurch 2001/02

With good temperament and strokes to match, Thorpe was tailor-made for Test cricket. But that didn't mean he couldn't wallop the bowling around the park if and when the need arose.

Against New Zealand in 2001-02, he scored 200 in 330 minutes from 231 balls, with 28 fours and four sixes. The fourth fastest double century of all-time.