The First Family

[archie mac]

Who would be the first family of each of the Test nations, and which would then be considered the first family of cricket?

I have made a few suggestions for some of the countries

Aust= The Chappells (including Vic Richardson)?

England= The Graces?

New Zealand= The Hadlees?

Sth Afr= Pollocks?

India=?

Pakistan?

Sri Lanka=?

West Indies=?

1st Family of Cricket=?

 

[pasag]

West Indies=?

Simmons

 

[PhoenixFire]

The Mohammed brothers for Pakistan?

 

[Perm]

The Mohammed's for Pakistan, wasn't there 5 brothers that represented them?

 

[archie mac]

The Mohammed brothers for Pakistan?

Yes they would be very hard to toss

 

[Perm]

Yes they would be very hard to toss

 

[chaminda_00]

The Obuya brothers for Kenya. Joyce brothers and sister for Ireland. The Burger guys for Namibia.

Im pretty sure Ajuna Rantunga had two bothers that played for Sri Lanka.

 

[archie mac]

No awards for you this week

 

[archie mac]

The Obuya brothers for Kenya. Joyce brothers and sister for Ireland. The Burger guys for Namibia.

Im pretty sure Ajuna Rantunga had two bothers that played for Sri Lanka.

The brothers Rantunga would be hard to beat, was not sure with some of the Sri Lankan boys with the same last name, as to them being related?

 

[Trigger_Tiger]

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The Khan Family from Bangladesh:

Akram Khan
Nafees Iqbal Khan
Tamim Iqbal Khan

 

[chaminda_00]

The brothers Rantunga would be hard to beat, was not sure with some of the Sri Lankan boys with the same last name, as to them being related?

Actually all four brother played for Sri Lanka, no one from Sri Lanka could beat that. Most the guys with the same last name are just like all the Smiths' that played England and Australia.

 

[Sanz]

India - It would be Ranji Family with Ranjit Sinji, Duleep Sinji, Hanumant Singh and even Ajay Jadeja (a distant relative of Duleep Sinji)

Pakistan - Mohammads(Hanif, Mushtaq, Sadiq, Shoaib)

 

[Trigger_Tiger]

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India - It would be Ranji Family with Ranjit Sinji, Duleep Sinji, Hanumant Singh and even Ajay Jadeja (a distant relative of Duleep Sinji)

Pakistan - Mohammads(Hanif, Mushtaq, Sadiq, Shoaib)

Isn't Ajay Jadeja's full name Ajay Sinji Daulat Sinji Jadeja?

 

[Sanz]

Yes, something like that.

 

[silentstriker]

Yes, I can't really think of many other Indians. Gavaskar and his son, but the son never made it permnantly into the national side.

 

[Chubb]

Zimbabwe have so many cricketing families, the Flowers, Rennies, Grippers, Ervines, Whittalls... Flowers are certainly statistically top of the pile.

 

[Sanz]

Yes, I can't really think of many other Indians. Gavaskar and his son, but the son never made it permnantly into the national side.

Actually there are some others, Now I that gave some though to it :-

Amarnath Family - Lala, Surinder, Rajinder and Mohinder Amarnath

Manjrekar Family - Vijay and Sanjay Manjrekar

Pataudis - Iftikhar and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.

 

[Sanz]

Also in Pakistan

Khan Family :- Jahangir Khan, Javed Burki, Imran Khan, Majid Khan and now Bazid Khan.

 

[Sanz]

Yes, I can't really think of many other Indians. Gavaskar and his son, but the son never made it permnantly into the national side.

Madhav Mantri, Gavaskar's Uncle (His mom's brother I guess) played for India, Gundappa Vishwanath is his brother-in-law and then there is this prodigy Rohan gavaskar.

 

[Goughy]

For England another one could be Butcher (Stewart) family.

Mark Butcher (England player) had a father that player for England (Alan Butcher), 2 uncles (Martin and Ian) that played FC cricket and a brother Gary that also played FC cricket.

Butcher WAS married to Judy Stewart (the sister of Alec Stewart). Alec played many times for England and his father ( Micky Stewart) also repesented England and was England cricket coach.

With Mark marrying Judy it brought together 4 England players and 3 other FC players into the same family.