Families in Test cricket, Part Three

Australian cricketer Ian Chappell. Courtesy of the National Archive of Australia.

In Part One, I covered families with three generations of cricketers. In Part Two, we looked at fathers and sons in cricket. Now, in part three, the brothers who played Tests together in the same Test team.

Australia’s Waugh twins, Steve and Mark, have played the most number of Tests together, 108; followed by brothers Andy and Grant Flower of Zimbabwe, 61; Ian and Greg Chappell of Australia, 43; Jeff and Martin Crowe of New Zealand, 36; Pakistanis Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad, 28; and South Africa’s Peter and Graeme Pollock, 23.

The thrilling Dunedin Test of November 2009 against New Zealand is remembered for Pakistan’s teenager Umar Akmal scoring 129 and 75 in his Test debut. In the first innings he added 176 runs for the sixth wicket, with elder brother Kamran Akmal playing his 44th Test.

Here is the complete list of brothers playing together.

Australia

• EJ and DW Gregory (1 Test, 1876).
• C and AC Bannerman (1 Test, 1878).
• G and WF Giffen (2 Tests, 1891).
• GHS and AE Trott (3 Tests, 1894).
• IM and GS Chappell (43 Tests, 1970-79).  TM Chappell also played Test cricket, but not with brother IM or with GS.
• SR and ME Waugh, (108 Tests, 1990-2003). Twins.

England

• EM, WG and GF Grace (1 Test, 1880).
• CT and GB Studd (4 Tests, 1882).
• A and GG Hearne (1 Test, 1891). Their third brother, F Hearne ,played in this Test for South Africa.
• DW and PE Richardson (1 Test, 1957).
• AJ and BC Hollioke (1 Test, 1997).

South Africa

• SJ and SD Snooke (1 Test, 1907).
• D and HW Taylor (2 Tests, 1913).
• RHM and PAM Hands (1 Test, 1913).
• EAB and AMB Rowan (9 Tests, 1948-51).
• PM and RG Pollock (23 Tests, 1963-69).
• AJ and DB Pithey (5 Tests, 1963).
• PN and G Kirsten (7 Tests, 1993-94). Half brothers.

West Indies

• GC and RC Grant (4 Tests, 1934).
• JB and VH Stollmeyer (1 Test, 1939).
• D St E and E St E Atkinson (1 Test, 1957).
• PT Collins and FH Edwards (6 Tests, 2003-04). Half brothers.

New Zealand

• DR and RJ Hadlee (10 Tests, 1973-77).
• HJ and GP Howarth (4 Tests, 1974-76).
• JM and NM Parker (3 Tests, 1976).
• BP and JG Bracewell (1 Test, 1980).
• JJ and MD Crowe (36 Tests, 1983-89).
• JAH and HJH Marshall (5 Tests, 2005-06). Twins.

India

• S Wazir Ali and S Nazir Ali (2 Tests, 1932-33).
• L Ramji and Amar Singh (1 Test, 1933).
• CK and CS Nayudu (4 Tests, 1933-36).
• AG Kripal Singh and AG Milkha Singh (1 Test, 1961).
• S and M Amarnath (8 Tests, 1975-78).

Pakistan

• Wazir and Hanif Mohammad (18 tests, 1952-59).
• Wazir and Mushtaq Mohammad (1 Test, 1958).
• Hanif and Mushtaq Mohammad (19 Tests, 1960-69).
• Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad (1 Test, 1969).
• Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad (28 Tests, 1969-78) (Wazir, Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad are brothers).
• Wasim and Ramiz Raja (2 Tests, 1983).
• Moin and Nadeem Khan (8 Tests, 1998).
• Humayun Farhat and Imran Farhat (1 Test, 2000).
• Kamran and Umar Akmal (1 Test, as at 2 December 2009). Third brother Adnan has also played first-class matches in Pakistan. All three have kept wickets when needed but Kamran is the regular Test wicket-keeper. (Umar scored a century and a fifty in his Test debut this November).

Sri Lanka

• S and MD Wettimuny (2 Tests, 1982).
• A and D Ranatunga (2 Tests, 1989).
• A and S Ranatunga (8 Tests, 1994-96). A, D and S Ranatunga are brothers.

Zimbabwe

• A and GW Flower (61 Tests, 1992-2002).
• JA and GJ Rennie (1 Test, 1997).
• PA and BC Strang (12 Tests, 1994-97). Three pairs, Flowers, Rennies and Strangs, played together v. New Zealand, Harare, in 1997.

Sources: Famous Cricketing Families by KM-H, Simon & Schuster, Aust., 2000; Almanac, Perivale, Aust., 2006; several Wisden publications UK.

Look out for Part Four, the finale of the cricketing family series.