Cricknames - Cricket Nicknames

Cricknames - Cricket Nicknames

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Australian Cricketer's NicknamesAussie Cricket Skills - Sports Nicknames

Mark Waugh was known as Afghanistan since he was often the forgotten Waugh; also he was known as Audi after he got 4 ducks in a row which were recorded in the scorebook as 0000.

Steve Waugh, on the other hand was known as Tugga or Drobe.

Dizzy (Jason) Gillespie (After the Jazz artist)

Allan Donald = White Lightning (Extremely fast bowler)

Glen McGrath = pigeon ??????????????

Don Bradman = The Don

Ritchie Benaud = Diamonds

Ricky Ponting = Punter

Shane Warne = Warney, Hollywood, The Sheikh of Tweak

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English Cricketer's Nicknames

Marcus Trescothick = Banger (Loves eating sausages apparently)

Michael Vaughan = Vaughny!!!!! and Virgil (Thunderbirds)

Andrew Flintoff = Freddie (After Freddie Flintstone the cartoon character)

Derek Randall = Arkle (Reflects his speed when fielding)

Ashley Giles = King of Spain ( Ashley ordered several coffee mugs to be made to sell to raise money in his testimonial year. Apparently they were to have read ' The King of Spin' . They didn't and the rest is history as they say)

Robert Russell = Jack (Excellent wicketkeeper/ batsman for Gloucestershire and England. Also an excellent painter)

Phil Tufnell = The Cat (Phil liked taking naps)

W.G. Grace — the Doctor

Ian Botham = Beefy

Paul Collingwood = Nice Ginger

Kevin Pietersen = K.P.

Keith Fletcher = The Gnome of Essex

Derek Underwood — Deadly

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True story from 1976: BBC announcer - ' Its over to Brian Johnson and the latest Cricket from the Oval' .

Brian Johnston : 'The bowler's Holding; the batsmen's Willey' .

(Peter Willey was England's number 6 and he did not last long.)


Indian Cricketer's Nicknames

Sachin Tendulkar = Little Master

Saurav Ganguly = Maharaj, Prince of Calcutta, Dada, Bengali Tiger

Harbhajan Singh =The Turbanator, Bhajji (by team-mates)

Anil Kumble = Jumbo

Rahul Dravid = The Wall (Difficult to bowl at or get out)

Pakistan Cricketer's Nicknames

Wasim Akram = Prince of Pakistan, Sultan of Swing

Inzamam ul Haq = Aloo (potato)

Saqlain Mushtaq = Saqi, Professor (wears glasses and outsmarts the batsman)

Shoaib Akhtar = Rawalpindi Express (Fastest bowler in the world born in Rawalpindi)

South African Cricketer's Nicknames

Lance Klusener = Zulu

Graeme Pollock — The Little Dog

Peter Pollock — The Big Dog

Shaun Pollock — Polly

Sri Lankan Cricketer's Nicknames

Muttiah Muralitharan — The Smiling Assassin, Murali

West Indian Cricketer's Nicknames

Joel Garner — Big Bird

Brian Lara — The Prince

Clive Lloyd — Super Cat

Whispering death Michael Holding

Cricket Commentators' Nicknames

Henry Blofeld — Blowers

Bill Frindall — The Bearded Wonder

Brian Johnston — Johnners

Christopher Martin-Jenkins — CMJ

Cricket Umpires' Nicknames

Harold Bird = Dickie Bird

Brent Bowden — Billy

Steve Bucknor — Slow Death


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