Dual Internationals...

[morgieb]

Do people who played cricket a junior level count (but a different sport professionally) as well?

 

[Demon43]

i heard somewhere that Jacob Oram represented the NZ soccer side as a goal keeper

 

[Jamee999]

Alastair Hignall played 14 Union Tests for England at full-back during the amateur era, and played 170 FC and 138 OD games for Gloucestershire and Cambridge University.

He's admittedly not a dual-international, as he only averaged 30 in FC as an opening bat, but an impressive record, none-the-less. He also commentates on Union for FiveLive.

 

[zaremba]

Alastair Hignall played 14 Union Tests for England at full-back during the amateur era, and played 170 FC and 138 OD games for Gloucestershire and Cambridge University.

He's admittedly not a dual-international, as he only averaged 30 in FC as an opening bat, but an impressive record, none-the-less. He also commentates on Union for FiveLive.

The wikipedia article suggests that he's no longer commentating on rugby for 5Live. Not sure if this is related to his multiple sclerosis.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Local boy too. Went to our (very minor) public school.

Rob Andrew played FC cricket as well, but has a rather modest record.

 

[GIMH]

Obviously Botham played a bit of pro-footy for S****horpe (well done filter)

 

[BoyBrumby]

Obviously Botham played a bit of pro-footy for S****horpe (well done filter)

Played as an amatuer I believe.

Most recent guy to play both football and cricket professionally must be Joe "Son of Steve, Nephew of Mike" Gatting. Current FC average of 152.

 

[GIMH]

Bloody pedant, you know what I meant

 

[Chemosit]

Aasif Karim captained Kenya at both ODI level and Davis Cup tennis.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Botham had already been mentioned nearly 6 years ago by Neil Pickup, not only as a footballer but a badminton champion.

 

[GIMH]

Just clicked 'first unread' tbh

 

[NZ Guy]

AB De Velliers was an awesome golf, tennis and rugby player Ive heard.

Ross Taylor was a good hockey player

 

[Jamee999]

Samit Patel was an Olympic gymnast.

 

[Agent TBY]

Samit Patel was an Olympic gymnast.

 

[Dydl]

Couple of women to add to the list:

Ellyse Perry currently plays soccer as well as cricket for Australia, at the age of 18, and Suzie Bates of New Zealand also represented her country in basketball at Beijing last year.