Cricket Players & Nicknames

Cricket Teams, Officials, Players & some Nicknames used to identify them.

Teams

Australia’s 1948 tour of England — The Invincibles

Australian national cricket team — Baggy Greens

Bangladeshi national cricket team — The Tigers

Canadian national cricket team — One Man Band

New Zealand national cricket team — The Black Caps, The Kiwis

South African national cricket team — The Proteas

West Indian national cricket team — The Windies, The Calypsos

Indian national cricket team — The Men in Blue

Pakistani national cricket team— The Stars

Officials, umpires and commentators

Harold Bird — Dickie Bird

Henry Blofeld — Blowers

Brent Bowden — Billy

Steve Bucknor — Slow Death

Bill Ferguson — Fergie

Bill Frindall — The Bearded Wonder

Brian Johnston — Johnners

Christopher Martin-Jenkins — CMJ

Don Mosey — The Alderman

David Shepherd — Shep

Bryan Waddle — Wads

Players

A

Bobby Abel — The Guv’nor

Jimmy Adams — Padams

Paul Adams — Gogga (“insect” in Afrikaans), A frog in a blender (for his unusual bowling action)

Ajit Agarkar — Bombay Duck (for his horror streak of ducks against Australia)

Jonathan Agnew — Aggers

Shoaib Akhtar — Rawalpindi Express

Wasim Akram — Prince of Pakistan, Was, Sultan of Swing

Terry Alderman — Clem (after Clem Jones, mayor of Brisbane, curator of Gabba and an alderman)

Mark Alleyne — BooBoo

Mohinder Amarnath — Jimmy, Amarnought

Surinder Amarnath — Tommy

Warwick Armstrong — the Big Ship

Jason Arnberger — Cheesy

Geoff Arnold — Horse

Shahid Afridi — The Boom

Michael Atherton — Athers

B

Trevor Bailey — The Boil, Barnacle

Omari Banks — Bankie, Cowheb

Richie Benaud — Diamonds

Tino Best — The Best, Ntini

Michael Bevan — Bevvo

Andrew Bichel — Bic

Jack Blackham — Black Jack

David Boon — Boonie, Keg on Legs, Stumpy

Allan Border — A.B., Captain Grumpy

Ian Botham — Beefy,The Both,Guy

Mark Boucher — Guinness, Billy

Nicky Boje — Bodge

Nathan Bracken — Bracks

Don Bradman — The Don

Ian Bell — Belly, the team baby

C

Andy Caddick — Caddyshack

Chris Cairns — B.A. (Bad Attitude)

Shivnarine Chanderpaul — Tiger

Ian Chappell — Chapelli

Ewen Chatfield — Chats, Farmer (Mer) or The Naenae Express

Stuart Clark — Sarfraz, Stu

Michael Clarke — Pup

Paul Collingwood — Nice Ginger, Colly

Herbie Collins — Horseshoe

Corey Collymore — Screw

Jeremy Coney — Mantis

Colin Cowdrey — Kipper

Jeff Crowe — Chopper

Martin Crowe — Hogan

D

Adam Dale — Chipper

Joe Darling — Paddy

Phillip DeFreitas — Half-Chocolate, Daffy

Aravinda de Silva — Mad Max

Fanie de Villiers — Vinnige Fanie (“Fast Fanie” in Afrikaans)

Kapil Dev — The Haryana Express

Mahendra Singh Dhoni — Mahi

Graham Dilley — Pica

Boeta Dippenaar — Dipps

Allan Donald — White Lightning

Brett Dorey — Hunky, John

J.W.H.T. Douglas — Johnny Won’t Hit Today

Rahul Dravid — Jammy, The Wall

E

Bruce Edgar — Bootsy

F

Damien Fleming — Flemo

Stephen Fleming — Flange

Duncan Fletcher — Fletch

Keith Fletcher — The Gnome of Essex

Andrew Flintoff — Freddy, Twiggy, Fred, family man

James Foster — The Child

Graeme Fowler — Foxy

C. B. Fry — Lord Oxford, Charles III, Almighty

G

Saurav Ganguly — Maharaj, Prince of Calcutta, Dada, Bengal Tiger

Joel Garner — Big Bird

Sunil Gavaskar — Sunny, The Little Master

Chris Gayle — Cramps, Crampy

Herschelle Gibbs — Scooter, The Sack Man

Adam Gilchrist — Churchy, Gilly, The Demolition Man

Ashley Giles — Ash, the King of Spain

Jason Gillespie — Dizzy

Darren Gough — Rhino, Goughy, the Dazzler, Dancing Darren

E. M. Grace — The Coroner

W.G. Grace — The Doctor

Mark Greatbatch — Paddy

Clarrie Grimmett — The Old Fox, Grum

Subhash Gupte — Fergie

H

Brad Haddin — BJ, Harry, Guildo

Richard Hadlee — Paddles

Andrew Hall — Brosh, Merv, Hally

Stephen Harmison — Harmy (or Harmi), Tinker, GBH  (Grievous Bodily Harmison)

Chris Harris — Harry, Lugs

Ian Harvey — Freak

Nathan Hauritz — Horry

Matthew Hayden — Haydos, Unit

Nantie Hayward — Wayward Hayward

George Headley — Black Bradman

Ian Healy — Heals

Hunter Hendry — Stork

Paul Hitchcock — Alfred

Jack Hobbs — The Master

Brad Hogg— George, Hoggy, The Postman

Matthew Hoggard — Hoggy, Shrek

Michael Holding — Whispering Death

Bob Holland — Dutchy

Albert Hornby — Monkey

James Hopes — Hopesy, Jimbo, Catfish

Merv Hughes — Fruitfly, Swerve, Swerv’n Merv’n

Simon Hughes — Yozzer

Nasser Hussain — Nass  (by the commentators)

Michael Hussey — The Huss, Mr Cricket

I

Inzamam ul Haq — Aloo (potato), Inzy

Bert Ironmonger — Dainty

J

Ridley Jacobs — Ras Bell, Riddler

Sanath Jayasuriya — The Matara Mauler

Gilbert Jessop — The Croucher

Dean Jones — Deano, Legend (nickname he gave to himself).

Sylvester Joseph — Bouncing

K

Mohammed Kaif — Kaifu

Jacques Kallis — Kalahari, Jackes

Danish Kaneria — Nani Dani

Michael Kasprowicz — Kasper

Simon Katich — Stiffler, Kat

Justin Kemp — Daryll (Shane Warne’s sledging)

Imran Khan — The Lion of Lahore, The King of Swing

Michael Klinger — Maxy

Lance Klusener — Zulu

Anil Kumble — Jumbo

L

Justin Langer — BNG, Brown Nose Gnome, Alf

Charl Langeveldt — Langes

Brian Lara — The Prince

Gavin Larsen — The Postman (apparently he always delivered!)

Harold Larwood — Lol

Bill Lawry — Phantom, Phanta, The corpse with pads on (he loved Phantom comics)

Geoff Lawson — Henry

VVS Laxman — Very Very Special

Brett Lee — Bing, Oswald

Warren Lees — Wally

Darren Lehmann — Boof, Shrek

Henry Leveson-Gower — Shrimp

Dennis Lillee — D.K., F.O.T (F*****g Old Tart)

Denis Lindsay — Sporty

Clive Lloyd — Super Cat

David Lloyd — Bumble

Martin Love — Lovey, Pumper

M

Charles Macartney — Governor-General

Stuart MacGill — Stuey, Magilla

Ken Mackay — Slasher

Jimmy Maher — Mahbo

Ashley Mallett — Rowdy

Sanjay Manjrekar — Sanj

Vijay Manjrekar — The Wanderer

Charles Marriott — Father Marriott

Geoff Marsh — Swampy

Rod Marsh — Iron Gloves, Bacchus

Xavier Marshall — X, Mad Max

Frederick Martin — Nutty

Damien Martyn — Marto

Lloyd Mash — Monster, Bangers (in the UK)

Greg Matthews — Mo

Glenn McGrath — Pigeon

Graham McKenzie — Garth

Craig McMillan — Macca

Colin Miller — Funky

Keith Miller — Nugget

Tom Moody — Long

Dave Mohammed — Tadpole

Danny Morrison — Deke

John Morrison — Mystery

Runako Morton — Ronnie

Muttiah Muralitharan — The Smiling Assassin, Murali, MuMu, Master technician

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

Shoaib Malik — Terminator

N

Andre Nel — Nella

Mfuneko Ngam — Chewey (Chewey’N gam)

Monty Noble — Mary Ann

Makhaya Ntini — Macky

O

Chris Old — Chilly (from C.Old)

Bill O’Reilly — Tiger

Kerry O’Keeffe — Skull

P

Milford Page — Curly

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi — Tiger

Parthiv Patel — Bachcha (child in Hindi)

Kevin Pietersen — K.P.

Graeme Pollock — The Little Dog

Peter Pollock — The Big Dog

Shaun Pollock — Polly, Ginger, The Nibbler

Ricky Ponting — Punter

Ashwell Prince — Ashy P

Q

Abdul Qadir — Qadu

R

Carl Rackemann — Mocca

Venkatapathy Raju — Muscles

Denesh Ramdin — Shoppy

Ravi Rampaul — Frisco Kid

Mark Ramprakash — Bloodaxe

Ranjitsinhji — Black Prince of Cricketers, Ranji, Smith

Derek Randall — Arkle

Yalaka Venugopal Rao — Venu

Abdul Razzaq — Razzler

Bruce Reid — Chook

Paul Reiffel — Pistol

Dave Renneburg — Big Shine

Harold Rhodes — Dusty Rhodes

Vivian Richards — Master Blaster, the Master

Mark Richardson — Rigor, Rig

Greg Ritchie — Fat Cat

Steve Rixon — Stumper

Jacques Rudolph — Jackie

Ken Rutherford — Ruds or Rudder

S

Mohammed Sami — Salami, The Karachi Express

Virender Sehwag — Veeru, New Tendulkar

Paul Sheahan — Timbers

Bob Simpson — Simmo

Navjot Singh Sidhu — Sherry, Jonty Singh, Sixer Sidhu

Matthew Sinclair — Skippy

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

Yuvraj Singh — Yuvi

Michael Slater — Slats

Peter Sleep — Sounda

Sir Aubrey Smith — Round the Corner

Ian Smith — Stockley

Graeme Smith — Biff

Jim Smith — Big Jim

Martin Snedden — Sneds

Fred Spofforth — Demon

Javagal Srinath — Babu

Keith Stackpole — Stacky

Brian Statham — George

Edward Stevens — Lumpy

Alec Stewart — Wizenedone, Gaffer

Andrew Strauss — Straussy

Pieter Strydom — Striker

Scott Styris — Pig

Andrew Symonds — Symo, Roy, Golden Bollocks

T

Mark Taylor — Tubby

Sachin Tendulkar — Tendiya, Little Master, The Master Blaster, Slashin Sachin

Alan Thomson — Froggie

Jeff Thomson — Two-up

Graham Thorpe — The Shagger

Ernie Toshack — The Dark Prince

Marcus Trescothick — Banger, Tresco

Fred Trueman — Fiery Fred

Hugh Trumble — Little Eva

Daryl Tuffey — Hightower

Phil Tufnell — The Cat, Tuffers

Charlie Turner — Terror

Frank Tyson — Typhoon

U

Shaun Udal — Shaggy

Derek Underwood — Deadly

V

Michael Vaughan — Virgil, Vaughny

Dilip Vengsarkar — Colonel

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan — Venkat

Daniel Vettori — Lucas, Danny

Lou Vincent — Flusher

Maharajkumar of Vizianagram — Vizzy

W

Max Walker — Tangles

Doug Walters — Freddie, Bikki

Shane Warne — Warney, Hollywood, The Sheikh of Tweak

Shane Watson — Watto

Steve Waugh — Tugga, Iceman

Mark Waugh — Junior, Afghanistan (The forgotten waugh)

Cameron White — Carn

Craig White — Chalky

Jeff Wilson — Goldie

Paul Wilson — Blocker

Matthew Windows — Steamy

Paul Wiseman — Whizz

Bill Woodfull — The Rock

John Wright — Shake

Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis — The Two W’s, The Sultans of Reverse Swing

Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell — The Three W’s

XYZ

Jai Yadav — J.P.

Yousuf Youhana — Yo-Yo

Waqar Younis — Wicki, The Buruwela Bomber