Cricketing siblings and their performances

[BoyBrumby]

List of Test or One-day International cricket families - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They've missed out the Smiths for England: Robin & elder bro Chris.

Wiki being wrong, who'da thunk it?!

 

[fredfertang]

...........also missing are the Studds and the Richardsons - still at least I learnt that Michael Vaughan was related to the Tyldesleys

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Geoff and Hedley Howarth both had successful international careers for NZ while the Pollock brothers were both great for South Africa in the 1960's

 

[The Sean]

For Australia, the Harveys are an example of a talented family for whom one brother far and way outshone the others. All six brothers played for Fitzroy cricket club in Melbourne, four of them (Neil, Merv, Nick and Ray) played for Victoria, and Neil and Merv both played for Australia. Merv played just the one Test, Neil played 79 and remains one of Australia's all time great batsmen.

Two interesting (and seemingly little known) side facts are that five of the six brothers also played baseball for Victoria, and that champion Australian Rules footballer Robert Harvey is Merv's grandson.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

The Marshalls - Both Hamish and James were good fielders at international level.

Bryan and Paul Strangs for Zimbabwe.

Guy and Andy Whittals again for Zimbabwe.

I remember at one stage all, or maybe 5/6, of the Strangs, Whittals, and Flowers played in the same ODI together.

 

[Precambrian]

I remember at one stage all, or maybe 5/6, of the Strangs, Whittals, and Flowers played in the same ODI together.

6 matches where all the six brothers played.

Team		Result	Margin		BR	Toss	Bat	Opposition	Ground		Start Date	
Pakistan	won	9 wickets	128	lost	2nd	v Zimbabwe	Lahore		1 Nov 1996	
N Zealand	won	83 runs			won	1st	v Zimbabwe	Harare		5 Oct 1997	
Kenya		lost	6 wickets	3	won	1st	v Zimbabwe	Nairobi(Gym)	12 Oct 1997	
Kenya		lost	7 wickets	52	lost	1st	v Zimbabwe	Nairobi(Aga)	16 Oct 1997	
Kenya		lost	83 runs			lost	2nd	v Zimbabwe	Nairobi(Gym)	18 Oct 1997	
Kenya		lost	82 runs			lost	2nd	v Zimbabwe	Nairobi(Gym)	19 Oct 1997

 

[Matt79]

Brett and Shane Lee.

Shane played guitar which is a much cooler instrument than the bass Brett played, however Brett had a bit more luck cracking into the Indian pop scene while Shane's career faded...

Best first post ever IMO.

 

[Matt79]

For Australia, the Harveys are an example of a talented family for whom one brother far and way outshone the others. All six brothers played for Fitzroy cricket club in Melbourne, four of them (Neil, Merv, Nick and Ray) played for Victoria, and Neil and Merv both played for Australia. Merv played just the one Test, Neil played 79 and remains one of Australia's all time great batsmen.

Two interesting (and seemingly little known) side facts are that five of the six brothers also played baseball for Victoria, and that champion Australian Rules footballer Robert Harvey is Merv's grandson.

And Ian Harvey is also related to them in some manner - through one of the brothers not to play a test?

 

[Matt79]

No-one's mentioned the Hussey boys yet I think?

The Hollioakes looked like they could be in this category til events sadly took their course.

Steve and Mark Waugh also had their "Trevor" in Dean.

 

[Chubb]

I remember at one stage all, or maybe 5/6, of the Strangs, Whittals, and Flowers played in the same ODI together.

I'm pretty certain it was test. Zim fielded a team with both sets of Flowers, Strangs and the brothers Gavin and John Rennie. Guy Whittall was playing in the same match and his cousin Andy was 12th man. So 3 sets of brothers and one of cousins.

Incidentally, the reason why Zimbabwe have so many families is because cricket is a dynastic sport in every country and in a small one like Zim that is going to be magnified. Even the black cricket population is the same- there are several sets of brothers and close relations.

 

[Chemosit]

At one stage half the Kenyan team consisted of Brothers.

Currently those that have played for Kenya (not all who covered themselves with glory, but still):

Alfred Luseno + Josephat Ababu

Lameck Onyango + Nehemiah Odhiambo (to be followed by at least one of Shem Ngoche or James Ngoche, the latter played recently for the A side v Uganda). Also 2 sisters in the national team - Margaret Banja and Mary Bele.

Collins Obuya, Kennedy Otieno, David Obuya.

Martin + Tony Suji (brother Daniel MacDonald also played briefly and sits on the board of selectors...)

Edward Tito + Maurice Odumbe (latter was far more successful though)

There are also actually 3 Tikolo brothers who played for Kenya:
Steve (stand out), David and Tom (now CEO of Cricket Kenya and a player who had he got the chance could have matched Steve with the bat)

Ashish and Sagar Karia have also both featured briefly for Kenya in First Class games.