Dougie Brown plays for Scotland these days and played in the last WC. Adam Hollioake plays beach cricket.
His career really did end once his brother died. I know he played on for a bit at FC level, but it wasn't like he still had another 3 or 4 more years in him.
Not really I think he won a couple titles with Surrey and became one of best Twenty20 players in the country. Domestically he still play quite well. I know he was still playing a bit of county cricket last season, maybe just Twenty20 though.
Winning that tournament was the worst thing to happen to England in ODI cricket as it made the selectors think they were right to continually pick bits and pieces County non-rounders.
Maybe, but only in the same sense that quite a few club or county captains are. Michael Brearley could easily have been such a thing had he been judged - rightly - to be past his best at the age of 34 and not debuted in 1976.
Adam Hollioake retired after the 2004 season, having just passed his 33rd birthday. His brother's death happened just before 2002, and it was immediately noticeable when he returned to the side mid-summer that his attitude had changed. He'd always been a strokeplayer, but now he was in the words of one correspondant "like a man possessed". He scored something like 700 Championship runs off 720 balls (that's a rounded-down figure, I don't have the exact one to hand) at an average of close to 70. His comments, too, showed this: "if I don't score, the sun will still rise tomorrow" or something along those lines. The game of cricket noticeably meant less to him after his brother's death, and it was always apparent that he'd be bringing his retirement forward.
In many ways it was - victory with a load of players no-one has ever heard of is always enjoyable. But as mentioned, in some ways it was a handicap - thereafter, these neither-one-thing-nor-the-other bits-and-pieces players players played ODIs for England: Brown, Fleming, Hollioake, Hollioake, Vince Wells, Andrew Flintoff (for the first 3 years of his career), Graeme Swann (at the time he was first selected), Paul Franks, Paul Grayson, Paul Collingwood, Jeremy Snape, Ian Blackwell, Gareth Batty, Rikki Clarke, Anthony McGrath. I wonder whether all of these would have played (admittedly some played just once or twice) had that victory not come.
Both played county cricket for a good while after that (and Brown as mentioned is still playing for Scotland) but neither were ever good enough to be playing ODIs (for ODI-class sides) and it's no surprise they didn't last long in the format.
That. He was a natural leader, though he didnt play to his potential at the top level imho.
exactly, it's ruined them since, good cricketers make good one day cricketers, average cricketers who excel (or over-excel) in one format at a certain level generally don't make the best one day cricketers, there are exceptions of course