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Longest name in cricket
I was browsing Cricinfo today, and came across the name Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanka Welegedara, and thought they can't get much longer than this. Do they?
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Is Mal Loye the shortest name?
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It's about as close as Ian Bell.
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Depends if we count middle names or not. Brett Lee at 8 is quite short.
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Never realised Fiji played First-Class games, he was a handy player too by the looks of it.
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