Best Player Nickname?

[Dydl]

Where did you get your theory from.

 

[Mr Casson]

Just get a sense of humour, Dydl. I hear they're going cheaply on the blackmarket.

 

[Linda]

actually they call him pidgeon because for being so tall, he is very light.

Hold up... whats that got to do with a pidgeon??

 

[KennyD]

coz hes as light as a pidgeon!

 

[Linda]

coz hes as light as a pidgeon!

So is a feather, a mouse, a ping pong ball...

 

[Mr Casson]

Has anyone seen that "Full Frontal" skit where they're having a go at Sports Tonight, and Tim Webster is coming up with all these theories on the cricketers nicknames?

Mark "Tubby" Taylor is so named because he likes taking baths.

Paul "Pistol" Reiffel likes shooting or something.

And Ian "Heals" Healy: "Dunno what that is... Must be something to do with his feet."

 

[marc71178]

Just get a sense of humour, Dydl. I hear they're going cheaply on the blackmarket.

Here we go again.

Didn't take him long to revert to type...

 

[Smudge]

Jeremy "Mantis" Coney was pretty clever, but I do like Mark Waugh's one.

 

[Mr Casson]

Here we go again.

Didn't take him long to revert to type...

You wish.

 

[Smudge]

The man in my avatar, Ewen Chatfield had a couple, including the Naenae Express (the suburb that he lived in), and "Mer", as his team mates thought he looked like a farmer.

 

[BoyBrumby]

The man in my avatar, Ewen Chatfield had a couple, including the Naenae Express (the suburb that he lived in), and "Mer", as his team mates thought he looked like a farmer.

Wasn't he the guy who got v badly brained by Peter Lever?

There's pretty famous pic of Lever in tears cos he thought he'd killed him.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Thought I'd resurrect this thread 'cos I just heard Warren Hegg call Andrew Symonds "Ronald" (I think) during the Hants-Lancs game on Sky. Anyone know why he's called that?

What with Symonds's mad hair & seemingly permanent zinc block on his lips I wonder if it's a ref to the MacDonald's clown of the same name.....?

 

[Shane Warne]

Brett Lee has the two best.

Binga becase of a shop called Bing Lee Electricals.

And Oswald because of when the batting order was...

His brother Shane Lee
Ian Harvey
Brett Lee (Oswald)

 

[Shane Warne]

Mark "Tubby" Taylor is so named because he likes taking baths

Surely it was because he was fat.

 

[superkingdave]

Thought I'd resurrect this thread 'cos I just heard Warren Hegg call Andrew Symonds "Ronald" (I think) during the Hants-Lancs game on Sky. Anyone know why he's called that?

What with Symonds's mad hair & seemingly permanent zinc block on his lips I wonder if it's a ref to the MacDonald's clown of the same name.....?

nah its Roy actually, but i don't know why

 

[archie mac]

Fred Trueman aka Typhoon

Frank Tyson was known as Typhoo

I always liked 'horse'
For Geoffrey Graham Arnold

Souda for Peter Sleep

Fot for Dennis Lillee

Fitter 'n' for Alan Turner

CHO for John Gleeson

 

[twctopcat]

Andrew "Frankie Frederick Mcflintoff". One of my own there.

Gummy for Harmison is quite amusing.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

I've always thought "Pigeon" for McGrath was cool, cos it seems so unlikely. Anyone know why he's called that?

Because he's a rat with wings.

 

[twctopcat]

And has the skinniest legs imaginable.

 

[Shane Warne]

I also like his other nickname - Shrek.

Hoggard's called that too.