Cricketers with professional degrees

[omorst7]

Musfiqur Rahim completed Master’s degree! Now doing PHD!!

 

[MenInG]

Having a degree and an international career is a big deal - what GPA/marks they got etc are irrelevant.

 

[kamz]

I didn’t know he did PPE. That’s a serious course. No mucking about, got to hammer the books from day one. Prime Ministers and Chancellors do that.

Not really Robert. Saying from first hand experience.

You really dont master a single subject. The PPE course isn't designed like the others. Mostly students that would take up PPE are the ones either who are not entirely sure what they want to study, so PPE is a safe option or the ones who wish to pursue a career in politics or journalism as a PPE degree certainly acts a springboard to that career, purely due to its reputation.

The way the course is designed is that in its first year it covers all the three subjects at a high level. From year 2 onwards, you are required to drop one and pursue with 2 subjects only. Therefore, if you are not good at one, you can drop it and still get a PPE degree. (basically getting a year to muck around in making up your mind)

Secondly, in first year, the reading for PPE is much lighter compared to the rest of the courses (minus the science ones, where those poor chaps have to be in a lab in addition to their readings) and also their essay submission in a term is 1 or 2 counts lower than the average.

You would find majority of student unions in oxford would be made of students who are reading PPE. Simply because they have more time than the rest, plus also as mentioned it is a springboard to a career in politics / journalism.

In my humble opinion, a student who picks up lets say for this case, e.g. Mike Brearley as someone above pointed out that he read classics. He would have to dive in significantly deeper in his subject, master it further to submit his essays. In PPE you don't have to dig deep in your subjects, but cover your essential readings.

One interesting fact though, majority of PPE students, you may come across would be single minded, stubborn with no room or appetite to accept a different view from theirs. (one can argue, a useful trait in a leadership role)

 

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Educated Cricketers from England

Michael Atherton
Nasser Hussain
Andrew Strauss
David Gower
Mike Brearley
Ed Smith
Zafar Ansari
Derek Pringle
Mike Selvey
Chris Tavare

Other Countries

Mushfiqur Rahim
Kumble
Dravid
Ganguly
Ed Cowan
Samuel Badree
Sangakkara
Jayawardene
Michael Holding
Ian Bishop

Educated Pakistani Cricketers XI

Saeed Anwar
Shan Masood
Ramiz Raja
Majid Khan
Misbah ul Haq (VC)
Wasim Raja
Sohaib Maqsood
Asif Iqbal
Imran Khan (C)
Mohammad Salman (WK)
Umaid Asif (the Peshawar Zalmi bowler)