Phil Neville was one of the famed Class of ‘92, and has been involved in football in playing and managerial capacities for almost 25 years, but fortune might well have taken him to represent his nation in the other sport England gave the world – cricket.
The younger Neville was a precocious batting talent at the U-15 level, breaking records set by Michael Atherton and being the captain of England’s U-15 cricket team. Neville was the youngest cricketer to be selected in the Lanchashire reserve team, this record still stands testament to the kind of future this prodigy might have had.
Neville played alongside Andrew Flintoff for the Lanchashire U-19 side and in the words of a contemporary fast bowler from Somerset, Steve Kirby,”He was brilliant. I know it's a big statement, but he was better than Flintoff at the time.”
Alex Ferguson might have done a huge injustice to the English cricket team by handpicking this ward of his
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