Cricketing Families

[Richard]

It's quite clearly "other" - either the Fosters or the Hearnes.

 

[Richard]

The Sidebottoms: Arnie & son Ryan (uniquely dad & junior are both one cap wonders!).

And both ineffective ones at that.

 

[Richard]

How about Hadlee and Crowe

New Zealand are always overlooked.
The Hadlees, of course, was a father\two-son thing, too.

 

[Smudge]

How about Hadlee and Crowe

Ahhh the Hadlees - transcending all levels of the game:

- father walter - captain of the 1949 team, head of NZ Cricket during the 1970s, bred five sons
- son Richard - ummmm, handy first-change bowler, selector, knight
- son Dayle - 71 wickets in 26 tests
- son Barry - just missed out on playing a test with Dayle and Richard.
Richard’s wife, Karen - one ODI in 1978.

 

[roseboy64]

I'm picking the Pollocks.

 

[Goughy]

There are a lot of talented people and dynasties mentioned here, but unless I missed something noone has mentioned the Grace Family.

To copy from Cricinfo's profile of WG Grace his relatives in cricket are:

Brother - EM Grace, Brother - GF Grace, Cousin - WG Rees, Cousin - GHB Gilbert, Cousin - WL Rees, Cousin - WJ Pocock, Cousin - WR Gilbert, Son - WG Grace Jnr, Son - CB Grace, Nephew - H Grace, Nephew - NV Grace

Not a bad list with the big dog at the top of the tree.

Thinking about it I would change my vote to them.

 

[PY]

I'd go Pollocks for reasons people have mentioned before.

Don't reckon there's many families have 3 contenders for teams of the decade, all-time teams for their country and possibly all-time teams fullstop depending on who's picking the team.

Oh, and watch out for the Harmisons......

 

[archie mac]

Cricket does seem to be something of a dynastic sport, makes me wonder about the whole nature/nurture arguement.

English cricketing families seem a bit under-represented, so to redress the balance:

The Graveneys: Tom, brother Ken (Gloucestshire captain) & nephew David (also ex-Glous skip & current chairman of our selectors).

The Huttons: Sir Len, son Richard (also English test player), grandson Ben (Middlesex)

The Stewarts: Micky & son Alec

The Butchers: Alan, brother Ian (Gloucestershire), sons Mark & Gary (ex-Glamorgan & Surrey)

The Cowdreys: Colin & sons Chris (also England test captain) & Graham (Kent)

The Comptons: Denis, brother Leslie (Middlesex & Arsenal ) & grandson Nick (Middlesex)

The Sidebottoms: Arnie & son Ryan (uniquely dad & junior are both one cap wonders!).

You could also add the Graces, The Hardstaffs and the Tates.

 

[Pothas]

i happened to be coached very briefly but Andy and Grant Flowers dad. Well coached as in there was about 25 of us

 

[Chubb]

i happened to be coached very briefly but Andy and Grant Flowers dad. Well coached as in there was about 25 of us

What was Bill like? You know, he didn't just help his sons, he also discovered Waddy Mwayenga and loads of other Zimbok players.

 

[Pothas]

What was Bill like?

He was very good from what i rememeber. I remember him going on about how good Heath Streak was and how he should be Hampshires overseas player again. This is about 6 years ago.

 

[Neil Pickup]

I think the Mortensons deserve a shout.

 

[SJS]

Just for academic interest.

Does anyone know of another four siblings who played test matches and scored centuries in them - other than Wazir Mohammad, Hanif Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad and Sadiq Mohammad?

 

[Fusion]

SJS convinced me to pick the Mohammad family

 

[oz_fan]

Just some interesting notes:
Hanif and Shoaib Mohammed are the only father and son to score test double hundreds.
Lala and Surinder Armanath are the only father and son to score test centuries on debut.
Three sets of brothers (Flower, Rennie, Strang) played in the one match for Zimbabwe against NZ in 97.
At least one Mohammed brother played in 100 of Pakistans first 101 test matches.

 

[JASON]

I voted the Chappells, in which I have included the Grandfather Vic Richardson

That gives them four Test players and three Aussie captains, 14,000+ Test runs and 200+ catches. Throw in a few wickets and that is not to bad an effort.

I would have voted for Chappell, but for the fact that Greg is permanently tarnished by his unsportsmanly gesture of the Under Arm incident .

Winning and losing is part of cricket . If you can stoop that low to save a loss you can be the greatest cricketing brain in the World , but you cannot get into the Gentleman's Club IMO.

 

[JASON]

New Zealand are always overlooked.
The Hadlees, of course, was a father\two-son thing, too.

3 sons to be precise - 3rd brother (Barry IIRC) played a couple of ODIs for NZ in the 70s .

 

[JASON]

Ranatunga's have not been mentioned so far and as far as Sri Lankan Cricket goes there is only one man who has made the single biggest contriibution to Sri Lanka's position as a cricketing nation today - and that Man is Arjuna Ranatunga .

Controversial, aggressive and confrontational , he might be , But he is a Legend as far as SL Cricket history is concerned . And its impossible to ignore him or his leadership style and Team building characteristics that built SL team to a semblance of what it is today.

His contribution to SL' s winning of the World Cup is absolutely phenomenal. For without his brilliant leadership and tactical astuteness, the 66-1 outsider could not have got anywhere near to winning the World Cup they did .

His brothers Dhammika and Sanjeeva played Test cricket (with only few appearances between them) and Nishantha Ranatunga (another brother) played 2 ODIs.

If you assess contribution of individual's in terms of the success of the teams to which they contributed ( as in Ranatunga's leadership and contribution in winning the World Cup in1996) and the contribution to their country's development as a cricketing nation (as Ranatunga's to Sri Lankan Cricket), then this man has made the single biggest contribution all told over any of the others mentioned !!

 

[SJS]

If we have to choose only by the stature of the family members who played cricket and not stature PLUS numbers then maybe the Bradman name should also figure here !

 

[JASON]

If we have to choose only by the stature of the family members who played cricket and not stature PLUS numbers then maybe the Bradman name should also figure here !

Were there more than one Bradman ? I am aware only of the much revered one .(Sir Don )