Meet the Pattinsons

Darren and James Pattinson are more than ten years apart but this week they became the first brothers to play together for Victoria in more than 20 years. Darren has already played Test cricket for England; James is touted as a future Australian player. Michael Horan tells their story in the Herald Sun.

More than a quarter of a century ago John Pattinson, a roof tiler just like his Dad, reluctantly acceded to his wife's wish to pack up their things and move, with their four-year-old son Darren, to Australia. Doveton, Victoria to be precise.

Being hauled off the roof was one thing, but carted Down Under was simply not on the radar for the pleasantly spoken, very English chap from Grimsby, Lincolnshire. If his profession was a family tradition, then so too was the unexpected, as he would discover with pride in his unique position of being the father of two Aussie-grown boys, born more than 10 years apart, who tread such different paths to attain their cricket dreams.