Guess the cricketer from the picture clues

[Immenso]

Sadly, I'm not anywhere that creative, all except one are from nicknames. The actual answer any Kiwi should get.

The plane looks a matte grey colour. So could be Matt Horne. However, it appears to have space for only one pilot, who is visible in the ****pit, so it is also a full hornet. So could be Phil Horne.

 

[Starfighter]

The plane looks a matte grey colour. So could be Matt Horne. However, it appears to have space for only one pilot, who is visible in the ****pit, so it is also a full hornet. So could be Phil Horne.

I never even knew there were Horne brothers. I was thinking of Matt, years ago there was an Ask Steven where someone asked which cricketer was nicknamed 'Hornet'.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

9:

10:

9. Kusal Mendis

10. Brian Statham

 

[Starfighter]

9. Kusal Mendis

10. Brian Statham

Right

1: Fred Spofforth - F3H Demon
2: Bill O'Reilly - F11F Tiger
3: Matt Horne - F/A-18 Hornet
4:
5: Doug Bollinger - F-15 Eagle
6: Allan Donald - E.E. Lightning (couldn't find a pic of one in white. Sorry).
7:
8:
9: Kusal Mendis - F9F Cougar (my favourite post on here of all time)
10: Brian Statham - Avro Lancaster 'G for George'

 

[The Sean]

Are 4 and 7 Shane Warne and Eddo Brandes respectively?

 

[Starfighter]

Are 4 and 7 Shane Warne and Eddo Brandes respectively?

No. Too recent. All three remaining ones are русские though, so I suppose it just depends on if one happens to know who the names fit with.

 

[The Sean]

Ah, then Clarrie Grimmett for number 4 and Jack White for number 7?

 

[Starfighter]

Ah, then Clarrie Grimmett for number 4 and Jack White for number 7?

White is right (can I say that?), Grimmett invented the delivery but it wasn't his nickname.

 

[The Sean]

Ha, I'm an idiot - I was trying to remember who had that nickname and it was a player I grew up watching. Wayne Phillips!

 

[Starfighter]

Ha, I'm an idiot - I was trying to remember who had that nickname and it was a player I grew up watching. Wayne Phillips!

Yeeeeessssss! Do you have an opinion on whether his dismissal in the '85 Ashes was bumped?

Now number 8 and we're done.

 

[The Sean]

I've watched it back a number of times but because it wasn't HD in those days it always looks inconclusive on the footage that I've seen - I really can't tell. Phillips himself swears blind to this day that it hit the ground, while David Gower insists that it didn't.

 

[The Sean]

I'm pretty sure number 8 is a Sukhoi, not a MIG, but I'm trying to remember all my old Warplanes mags and aircraft books for a nickname!

 

[Starfighter]

You see, I just used Wikipedia, I'm long past the stage when I actually thought it was worth memorising these things, and the books I had were a bit more recent. Heck, one had the F-35 - it only took another eleven years to get here!

 

[The Sean]

Yeah, I just google image searched the last one - the "Fitter" - so that's Alan Turner?

 

[Starfighter]

Yeah, I just google image searched the last one - the "Fitter" - so that's Alan Turner?

Yes, well, Turner was Fitteran, but I'm not that fastidious for the purpose of a game.

1: Fred Spofforth - F3H Demon
2: Bill O'Reilly - F11F Tiger
3: Matt Horne - F/A-18 Hornet
4: Wayne Phillips - Ye-152A Flipper
5: Doug Bollinger - F-15 Eagle
6: Allan Donald - E.E. Lightning
7: Jack White - MiG-19 Farmer
8: Alan Turner - Su-17 Fitter
9: Kusal Mendis - F9F Cougar
10: Brian Statham - Avro Lancaster 'G for George'