Some highlights of Neil Fairbrother's maiden one-day international century against West Indies at Lord's in the 1991 Texaco Trophy. Plus Graeme Hick's first England fifty.
Fairbrother was a fantastic batsman. I first watched him playing in 1992 world cup and still I remember his fabulous innings against South Africa in that world cup where he won the match easily for England because of his special talent. It was a rain effected pool match. I wish he could have been selected more for England. Along side him, England also wasted special talents of Angus Fraser, Robin Smith, Darren Gough, Graeme Hick, Andrew Caddick and Chris Lewis. Their selection policy was really bad in 90's.
The English Hero of World Cup 1992, He played One of The Best Match Winning ODI innings of English Cricket in target chasing (113 vs West Indies, 1991) against great bowlers Marshall, Ambrose, Walsh & Patterson. He was unfulfilled talent which can be a ODI great. In Carlton & United series 1999 he made 320 odd runs at an exceptional average of 64 but World Cup 1999 proved his last appearance. Fairbrother was another example of how in worst way English selectors treated Robin Smith, Graeme Hick.
watching it again in 2020 it still deserves applauds....i suppose it catapulted him for the world cup later that year.....Its a shame, imo, that Hick didnt take that confidence from this game into the test series... was a great year of test cricket to watch. 2-2 in the test series, series win in nz, unfortunately runners up again in the world cup. (great combo of bbc and sky commentary dare i say, lol)
I was at Lords on this day, one of the best days out I have ever had, scratchy start, once he got going, all went v well. Knew he was going to put Simmons into the Grandstand!
Great upload. Fairbrother is one of our most-underrated Odi players: always reliable in a crisis and a great fielder. Says it all about our selection policy in the 90s really that he never got to 100 caps in that format, only 75.
