These two men averaged 60.73 & 58.45 in Test cricket.
One aspired to captaincy - blasphemy for a professional.
The other became an amateur and thus became an England captain.
Neither was knighted.
In fact, this snobbery was encapsulated in the complaints of teh eternal snob - Neville Cardus - who took exception to Sutcliffe's speaking 'not with the accents of Yorkshire but of Teddington'. He saw the advent of the likes of Sutcliffe and Hammond with their Saville Row suits as the signs of the imminent collapse of the old feudal system. 'The county cricketer has in certain intances become a man of bourgeois profession', he wrote.
Some England batsmen who have been knighted have averaged 40, 44, 45, 47.
Even discounting the likes of Plum Warner etc.