Neil Fairbrother

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Neil Fairbrother
England
Personal information
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling style	Left-arm medium
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	10	75
Runs scored	219	2092
Batting average	15.64	39.47
100s/50s	-/1	1/16
Top score	83	113
Balls bowled	12	6
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	4/-	33/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: [1]

Neil Harvey Fairbrother (born 9 September 1963 in Warrington, then Lancashire) is a former English cricket player, named by his mother after her favourite player, legendary Australian cricketer Neil Harvey. He was educated at Lymm High School. He played for Lancashire County Cricket Club, Transvaal and England.

Fairbrother made his international debut on April 2, 1987, in a One Day International against India. Following a match-winning century against a West Indies side including Malcolm Marshall, Curtley Ambrose and Courtney Walsh at Lord's in 1991 he established himself as a regular in middle-order of the one-day side for several years. Test success, however, proved elusive. Bowled for a duck on his debut, he made just ten Test appearances for England, with only one half-century from 15 innings.

In 1990, Fairbrother scored 366 for Lancashire against Surrey at The Oval. 311 of his runs came in a single day, and his feat is unique in that he scored at least 100 runs in each of the three sessions that day. Another first came in 1998, when he became the first man to play in ten Lord's finals. He retired in 2002 and became Director of Cricket at International Sports Management, a sports agency that represents several leading English test cricketers.

v • d • e England squad - 1992 Cricket World Cup (runners-up) 1 Gooch (c) • 2 Botham • 3 DeFreitas • 4 Fairbrother • 5 Hick • 6 Illingworth • 7 Lamb • 8 Lewis • 9 Pringle • 10 Reeve • 11 Small • 12 Smith • 13 Stewart (wk) • 14 Tufnell

v • d • e England squad - 1996 Cricket World Cup 1 Atherton (c) • 2 Cork • 3 DeFreitas • 4 Fairbrother • 5 Gough • 6 Hick • 7 Martin • 8 Illingworth • 9 Russell (wk) • 10 NMK Smith • 11 RA Smith • 12 Stewart • 13 Thorpe • 14 White

v • d • e England squad - 1999 Cricket World Cup 1 Stewart (c/wk) • 2 Austin • 3 Croft • 4 Ealham • 5 Fairbrother • 6 Flintoff • 7 Fraser • 8 Gough • 9 Hick • 10 Hollioake • 11 Hussain • 12 Knight • 13 Mullally • 14 Thorpe • 15 Wells • Coach: Lloyd