The bespectacled left-hander who helped Abahani Krira Chakra win the Premier league along with his former England team-mate Richard Illingworth way back in 1994-95 season is the only player in the 14-man England team who has the experience of playing local cricket in Dhaka.
Talking to The Daily Star at the hotel lobby immediately after the England team's arrival at Sonargaon, he said that although the English season was over he wants to spend more time with his two kids during the winter.
``I don't need money nowadays because sponsors have solved that problem for me,'' said a smiling Fairbrother, whose swashbuckling 94 against Mohammedan Sporting Club four years back is still one of the best individual innings that the Dhaka crowd has seen.