Michael Andrew Atherton, OBE (born March 23, 1968, in Newton Heath, Manchester, England) is a broadcaster, journalist and retired cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman for Lancashire and England, he captained England in a record 54 Test matches.
The young Mike Atherton captained the Manchester Grammar School cricket team where he scored nearly 3,500 runs and took 170 wickets. His performances led to selection for the England under-19 team, wh...
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Michael Andrew Atherton, OBE (born March 23, 1968, in Newton Heath, Manchester, England) is a broadcaster, journalist and retired cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman for Lancashire and England, he captained England in a record 54 Test matches.
The young Mike Atherton captained the Manchester Grammar School cricket team where he scored nearly 3,500 runs and took 170 wickets. His performances led to selection for the England under-19 team, which he captained aged 16. He also represented Lancashire Schools from 1982-86. In 1983 he won the Jack Hobbs Memorial Award as the Outstanding Schoolboy Cricketer at under-15 level. In a (non-first-class) match against the MCC in 1984 he took 6-27
Entering Downing College, Cambridge to read history, he was selected at 18 to play for Cambridge University Cricket Club and awarded a blue. A year later he made 73 on his county debut for Lancashire County Cricket Club, scoring his maiden first-class hundred against Derbyshire a fortnight later....
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