kingkallis
International Coach
You could have gone with Tim May as your spinner...
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Same Numbers of Letters In Surname Teams
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Flyonthewall
U19 Captain
I'm not even sure you can. I've looked through, and I can only see eight decent test players (Actually a couple probably even that) with 12-letter surnames. Maybe if you did 12 letters or more.So... can anyone make up a team that Muralitharan can go in?
Anyway, the 11-letter side
Marcus TRESCOTHICK
Stan WORTHINGTON
Mahela JAYAWARDENE
Paul COLLINGWOOD
Shivnarine CHANDERPAUL
Thilan SAMARAWEERA
Prasanna JAYAWARDENE (wicket-keeper)
Learie CONSTANTINE
Raymond ILLINGWORTH
Richard ILLINGWORTH
...Ach, I give up. There's a few other batsmen, but as far as I can find no decent bowlers.
P.S. Neil, I think Duleepsinjhi and Inzamam-ul-HQ are missing from your list?
stumpski
International Captain
A lot more to choose from than I first thought, I really ought to have remembered PBH. Pretty handy pace attack there actually.
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
Wikipedia's fault and not mine! I didn't fact-check the output too closely...
I'm still not convinced that "Inzamam-ul-Haq" is a surname, mind.
Flyonthewall
U19 Captain
Haha fair enough. I thought as a discerning teacher you'd know not to trust Wikipedia...
Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
I couldn't find any other lists of Test cricketers and couldn't be bothered to look for more than one minute.Haha fair enough. I thought as a discerning teacher you'd know not to trust Wikipedia...
Flyonthewall
U19 Captain
Nah...it was a better option than fruitlessly searching Cricinfo for about 3/4 of an hour for sure..
Athlai
Not Terrible
Spin is overrated
Since I seem to have arrived late to the party and all the sensible numbers of letters have already been done, thought I do something different.
Each player has one letter less in their surname than the guy batting above them or vice-versa for the second team:
Hathurusingha
Paranavitana
Jayawardene*
Sangakkara+
Tendulkar
Richards
Boucher+
Hadlee
Warne
Bond
Gul
Das
Boon
Grace
Kallis
Pollock
Flintoff
Gilchrist+
Kasprowicz
Constantine
Muralitharan
Chandrasekhar
Each player has one letter less in their surname than the guy batting above them or vice-versa for the second team:
Hathurusingha
Paranavitana
Jayawardene*
Sangakkara+
Tendulkar
Richards
Boucher+
Hadlee
Warne
Bond
Gul
Das
Boon
Grace
Kallis
Pollock
Flintoff
Gilchrist+
Kasprowicz
Constantine
Muralitharan
Chandrasekhar
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Haha, love it pskov.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Super !!
Spudsy2061
U19 Cricketer
This is probably the best side mentioned.
I was thinking my 7 letter team would be:
Graeme Pollock - Vice Captain
George Headley
Sir Donald Bradman
Ricky Ponting - Captain
Alec Stewart - Wicket-Keeper
Malcolm Marshall
Tim Bresnan (My Favorite Player, So I'm Sticking Him In There)
Shakib al-Hasan
Curtly Ambrose
Shaun Pollock
Fred Trueman
Yeah just some food for thought. S. Pollock, Ambrose, and Trueman are actually really under-rated, but have been some of the best 400+ wicket-takers. Stewart has averaged around 35 over 100+ test and has dismissed more than a bucket full of wickets as a keeper.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
You are right of course. But one tends to use the way the names are listed on the stats sides for this. Not ideal way I agree and bound to lead to confusion.
Kapil Dev, for example is listed under 'K' and some may use him for the five alphabet side. Others may want to use Dev. His real surname, of course, is Nikhanj which he doesn't use normally.
Sikhs (all 25 million of them), like Harbhajan and yours truly, have a common given name of Singh and many use it as their surname as was intended by the tenth guru of the Sikhs. Of course most continue with their original. pre Sikhism surname like Bedi for Bishen Singh. Others like myself (Issar) do not use it and Singh has become the surname by default.
It is confusing I agree :-)
There is a big confusion with Muslim names. People keep arguing but to the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a Muslim surname thus a father's name could be completely different from the son's but in most families people try to have the second name same as the father's which has been taken by many as a 'surname'.
I suspect Harbhajan has a surname too (as does our prime minister (Manmohan Singh). some research might yield it :-)
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Thanks mate.
I am well though not in a great frame of mind. My mother is very critically ill and it looks like this time she may not be able to fight her cancer. Part of the reason of my posting maybe to take my mind off it . . .
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Very sorry to hear that, SJS. Puts a very sad tinge on the happiness in seeing you back posting.
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah Jack. . . that's life I suppose . . .
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Thanks .
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I thought I might as well attempt a team with no letters.
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