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Full name Neil Harvey Fairbrother
Born September 9, 1963, Warrington, Lancashire
Current age 44 years 319 days
Major teams England,Lancashire,Transvaal
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
10
15
1
219
83
15.64
599
36.56
0
1
22
2
4
0
ODIs
75
71
18
2092
113
39.47
2903
72.06
1
16
140
20
33
0
First-class
366
580
80
20612
366
41.22
47
104
290
0
List A
505
472
118
14761
145
41.69
9
107
185
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
10
1
12
9
0
-
-
-
4.50
-
0
0
0
ODIs
75
1
6
9
0
-
-
-
9.00
-
0
0
0
First-class
366
795
500
7
2/91
71.42
3.77
113.5
0
0
List A
505
174
193
3
1/17
1/17
64.33
6.65
58.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v Pakistan at Manchester, Jun 4-9, 1987 scorecard
Last Test
Sri Lanka v England at Colombo (SSC), Mar 13-18, 1993 scorecard
England v India at Birmingham, May 29-30, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1982 - 2002
List A span
1982 - 2002
Profile
Small, tenacious and with a good eye for the sharp single, Fairbrother derived his two Christian names from another durable left-hander - and his mother's favourite cricketer - the former Australian Test batsman Neil Harvey. Fairbrother carved out a career for himself as England's leading one-day batsman in the middle order for much of the 1990s, picking the gaps with scientific precision, dabbing the ball behind square, occasionally hitting over the top on the leg side - and running like hell. He remains a livewire in the covers for Lancashire. But a largely bottom-handed technique and a weakness outside off stump cost him a longer run in the Test side, and the highlights of Fairbrother's international career were his appearances in three World Cups. He has been the architect of several one-day triumphs at Lancashire, where he was captain in 1992, and remained one of their batting linchpins at first-class level until his retirement at the end of 2002. He became a players' agent, and counts Andrew Flintoff among his clients.
Lawrence Booth
