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Great Brother Combinations.....

hourn

U19 Cricketer
One thing I noticed looking at the Waugh Twins records today, they have nearly notched up 50 000 FC runs between them.

And it got me thinking, would this be the record for the most FC runs by brothers?

To be exact, between the three Waugh brothers (Dean being the other one, who only contributed 22 runs) they have scored 49 593 (at the time Steve was on 77 and Mark on 2 in the PC game).

The Chappell brothers notched up 48 264 runs so they just fall short.

Even more amazing is the fact Hobbs scored 60 000 on his own (but he did play over 800 FC matches to get there :p )
 

Langeveldt

Soutie
Well M and S waugh are the best of the modern era... A and G Flower come close, but not that close.... I never knew Hobbs was quite that phenomenal!

Other ones recently...

Paul and Bryan Strang
Andy and Guy Whittall
John and Gavin Rennie
Andy and Grant Flower

Thats all I can think of for the moment... they all happen to be from Zim!
 

Mr. P

International Vice-Captain
More bros...

Adam and Ben Hollioake
Mike and Dave Hussey
Shane and Brett Lee
 

Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
Steve and Ben Harmison (maybe.. ;))

*Finds Wisden*

ENGLAND
EM, GF & WG Grace (1 Test) - 1880
CT & GB Studd (4) - 1882-83
A & GG Hearne (1) - 1891-92 (also F Hearne for SA in same Test)
DW & PE Richardson (1) - 1957
AJ & BC Hollioake (1) - 1997

AUSTRALIA
EJ & DW Gregory (1) - 1876-77
C & AC Bannerman (1) - 1878-79
G & WE Giffen (2) - 1891-92
GHS & AE Trott (3) - 1894-95
IM & GS Chappell (43) - 1970-80
SR & ME Waugh (96*) - 1990-2001 (up to date to end of Ashes 01)

SOUTH AFRICA
SJ & SD Snooke (1) - 1907
D & HW Taylor (2) - 1913-14
RHM & PAM Hands (1) - 1913-14
EAB & AMB Rower (9) - 1948-51
PM & RG Pollock (23) - 1963-70
AJ & DB Pithey (5) - 1963-64
PN & G Kirsten (7) - 1993-94 (half-brothers)

WEST INDIES
GC & RS Grant (4) - 1934-35
JB & VH Stollmeyer (1) - 1939
DstE and EstE Atkinson (1) - 1957-58

NEW ZEALAND
DR & RJ Hadlee (10) - 1973-78
HJ & GP Howarth (4) - 1974-77
JM & NM Parker (3) - 1976-77
BP & JG Bracewell (1) - 1980-81
JJ & MD Crowe (34) - 1983-90

INDIA
S Wazir Ali & S Nazir Ali (2) - 1932-34
L Ramji & Amar Singh (1) - 1933-34
CK & CS Nayudu (4) 1933-36
AG Kripal Singh & AG Milkha Singh (1) - 1961-62
S & M Amarnath (8) - 1975-79

PAKISTAN
Wazir & Hanif Mohammad (18) - 1952-60
Wazir & Mushtaq Mohammad (1) - 1958-59
Hanif & Mushtaq Mohammad (19) - 1960-70
Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad (1) - 1969-70
Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad (26) - 1969-79
Wasim & Ramiz Raja (2) - 1983-84
Moin & Nadeem Khan (1) - 1998-99
Humayun & Imran Farhat (1) - 2000-01

SRI LANKA
MD & S Wettimuny (2) - 1982-83
A & D Ranatunga (2) - 1989-90
A & S Ranatunga (8) - 1994-97

ZIMBABWE
A & GW Flower (50*) - 1992-2001
JA & GJ Rennie (1) - 1997-98
PA & BC Strang (14) - 1994-2001
 
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Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
Runs for the Mohammad Brothers:

Wazir 4930
Hanif 17059
Sadiq 24160
Mushtaq 31091

Makes a grand total of... 77240

55251 between Sadiq and Mushtaq alone.

If that's not the record then I don't know what is.

Sorry to blow that bit of Aussie supremacy out the water ;)
 

Magrat Garlick

Global Moderator
Neil Pickup said:
PAKISTAN
Wazir & Hanif Mohammad (18) - 1952-60
Wazir & Mushtaq Mohammad (1) - 1958-59
Hanif & Mushtaq Mohammad (19) - 1960-70
Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad (1) - 1969-70
Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad (26) - 1969-79
Four brothers who all played Test cricket?? :O That father must have been pretty into the sport...(or possibly president of the PCB)

Anyway, for me the Waughs are still the best. They were two, while there were four Mohammads.
 

Mr. P

International Vice-Captain
Samuel_Vimes said:
Four brothers who all played Test cricket?? :O That father must have been pretty into the sport...(or possibly president of the PCB)

Anyway, for me the Waughs are still the best. They were two, while there were four Mohammads.
I say congrats to their mother for producing the goods 4 times, perhaps when she gave birth she was holding a cricket bat in her hands or something?:P
 

Neil Pickup

Cricket Web Moderator
age_master said:
there was more than one Ranatunga:O :O :O :O
Aye, four to be precise. Nishantha played 2 ODIs as well.

Nishantha - 3,078 runs
Arjuna - 11,641
Dammika - 3,559
Sanjeeva - 6,586

Total - 24,864
 

Tapioca

State Vice-Captain
55251 between Sadiq and Mushtaq alone.
Try these combinations :

WG Grace 54211
EM Grace 10025 = 64236
http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/41/41.html

John Langridge 34378
James Langridge 31716 = 66094
http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/8/8411/8411.html

James played 8 tests, John played none !


JT Tyldesley 37897
Earnest Tyldesley 38874 = 76771

http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/397/397.html

Btw, Michael Vaughan is the grandson of Tyldesleys' sister.
 

Tapioca

State Vice-Captain
I say congrats to their mother for producing the goods 4 times, perhaps when she gave birth she was holding a cricket bat in her hands or something?
Correct to some extent :D

Amir Bee, the mother of the Mohammads, was almost entirely responsible for making her children the cricketers that they became. She was also the national badmintion (or squash) champion of the undivided India in 1944.
 

Rik

Cricketer Of The Year
Richard said:
Andy and Guy Whittall are actually cousins.
True.

2 English players who have not had much luck with England selections (one of them was one of the unluckiest batsmen never to get selected by England), Darren (Batsman) and Martin (Bowling All-Rounder) Bicknell.
 

PY

International Coach
Anyone got any idea which set of brothers has scored the most runs without playing for their countries?
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Rik said:
True.

2 English players who have not had much luck with England selections (one of them was one of the unluckiest batsmen never to get selected by England), Darren (Batsman) and Martin (Bowling All-Rounder) Bicknell.
Spot on.
Martin Bicknell is just impossibly hard-done by, I don't think anyone doubts that, but Darren is someone who just doesn't ever seem to have come into consideration. Graham Gooch and Atherton got in his way for some time, but it was palpably clear that Nick Knight wasn't a Test standard batsman after his first couple of series'. Instead of going for Bickers, they plumped for recalling Jack Russell and wasting Stewart as an opener.
 

Rik

Cricketer Of The Year
Richard said:
Spot on.
Martin Bicknell is just impossibly hard-done by, I don't think anyone doubts that, but Darren is someone who just doesn't ever seem to have come into consideration. Graham Gooch and Atherton got in his way for some time, but it was palpably clear that Nick Knight wasn't a Test standard batsman after his first couple of series'. Instead of going for Bickers, they plumped for recalling Jack Russell and wasting Stewart as an opener.
Hmmm I wouldn't think Stewart was wasted as an opener, he enjoyed opening a lot more because he got to face pace bowling which he thrived on.

That said, he was growing into the keeper-batsman role at that time, Knight was obviously not good enough yet kept on getting back in every so often. But if Kim Barnett and Steve James could get chances, why couldn't Darren Bicknell?
 

Tapioca

State Vice-Captain
Anyone got any idea which set of brothers has scored the most runs without playing for their countries?
I don't know but they must be Englishmen, played most of their cricket between 1900 (about the time when the wickets began to get better) and 1969 (when the number of county matches were drastically reduced)

For a start :

Alan Jones 36049
Eifion Jones 8341 = 44390

http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4474/4474.html


Jones' aggregate is the highest by someone who never played test cricket. Yet he was a test cricketer for some years !

He represented England in the 'tests' against the Rest of the world in 1970. These matches were given test status at the time, but it was withdrawn after a decade or so. So Jones settled down to snatch the record from John Langridge (mentioned in an earlier post).
 

Andre

International Regular
You wouldn't call them great, but Everton and Darlington Matambanadzo from Zimbabwe.
 

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