Former and current English players pay tribute to late Tom Maynard – Cricket News Update
Tributes for late Surrey batsman Tom Maynard, who died on Monday after purportedly hit by a tube train, have flooded in from former and current English players as well as from leading sports figures around the world.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Peter-Maynard-c75259, calling him a fearless cricketer who had a bright future in one-day as well as Test cricket.
“His one-day cricket was dynamic…an aggressive player prepared to take more risks than others and an excellent fielder,” wrote Trescothick in his column on Thursday.
Former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 captains Andrew Flintoff and Michael Vaughan used the microblogging website, Twitter, to pay their tributes.
“Someone with so much talent and so much to look forward to. Why is life so cruel sometimes?” http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Michael-Paul-Vaughan-c76145, the former England captain, wrote on Twitter.
"Tragic news that a great lad, Tom Maynard, is no longer with us. All my thoughts are with his family at this awful time," http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Flintoff-c44360, the former England all-rounder best known for startling performances in Ashes series, wrote on his feed.
Chairman of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 County Cricket Club, Richard Thompson, also expressed sheer grief over the untimely death of the emerging batsman, saying that there was a “profound sense of loss” in the club at the “utterly senseless tragedy”.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thompson-c93900 said that the departed soul was a prodigiously talented batsman, who had made a startling start to his first-class career and could have gone a long way had life allowed him.
“The impact Tom made in such a short period of time for Surrey CCC spoke for itself," concluded the Surrey CCC chairman of cricket.
England and Wales Cricket Board also expressed grief over the promising young Surrey talent.
"Tom was a player of enormous potential who had already represented England http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Charles-Giles-Clarke-c49957, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board in an official statement.
Maynard, who started his first-class career with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kent-c802 at Beckenham.
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