5 footballers who were good cricket players

2. Gary Neville

Gary Neville and Matthew Hayden

Neville might have missed a century of caps with the England, but he did score one to guide his club to guide Greenmount to a place in the Bolton League’s Hamer Cup final. Neville batted on that day, with someone who went on to make a slight name for himself in the cricketing world, Matthew Hayden. While Hayden was playing with the club with the aim of getting the Baggy Green, Neville was also an apprentice footballer at Manchester United when he played for Greenmount. He decided to carry on with the Red Devils, and who knows? English cricket’s loss maybe?