Neil Fairbrother

Neil Fairbrother
Personal information
Full name
Neil Harvey Fairbrother
Born (1963-09-09) 9 September 1963
Warrington, Lancashire
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingLeft-arm medium
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 525)4 June 1987 v Pakistan
Last Test13 March 1993 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 94)2 April 1987 v India
Last ODI29 May 1999 v India
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 10 75 366 505
Runs scored 219 2,092 20,612 14,761
Batting average 15.64 39.47 41.22 41.69
100s/50s 0/1 1/16 47/104 9/107
Top score 83 113 366 145
Balls bowled 12 6 795 174
Wickets 0 0 7 3
Bowling average 71.42 64.33
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 2/91 1/17
Catches/stumpings 4/– 33/– 290/– 185/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  England
ICC Cricket World Cup
Runner-up1992 Australia and New Zealand
Source: Cricinfo, 23 April 2011

Neil Fairbrother (born Neil Harvey Fairbrother; 9 September 1963) is an English former cricketer who played 75 One Day International matches and 10 Test matches as a batsman for England. Fairbrother, named by his mother after her favourite player, the Australian cricketer Neil Harvey, was educated at Lymm Grammar School and played his county cricket for Lancashire. Although primarily a one day player at international level, he had strong success in the County Championship and had a first class high score of 366. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

Fairbrother retired from all cricket in 2002, and became Director of Cricket at International Sports Management. He was also a player manager for a time, managing among others Andrew Flintoff. In February 2018, Fairbrother set up Phoenix Management.