Cricket
See also: List of nicknames used in cricket- "Afghanistan"/"The Forgotten Waugh" = Mark Waugh, Australia batsman
- "Appam Chutiya" = Sreesanth, India fast bowler
- "Bear" = Cameron White, Australia batsman
- "Beefy" = Ian Botham, England all-rounder
- "Bhaji" = Harbhajan Singh, India off spinner
- "Big Bird" = Joel Garner, Barbados and West Indies fast bowler
- "Big Joel" = Joel Garner, Barbados and West Indies fast bowler
- "Bing" = Brett Lee, Australia bowler
- "'Butch"= David White, England fast bowler
- "Captain Cool" = M. S. Dhoni, India wicket-keeper/batsman
- "Chappelli" = Ian Chappell, Australia batsman
- "Church" = Adam Gilchrist, Australia wicket-keeper/batsman
- "Dada" = Sourav Ganguly, India batsman
- "Dizzy" = Jason Gillespie, Australia fast bowler
- "The Don" = Donald Bradman, Australia batsman
- "Fab Four" = Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and V. V. S. Laxman; India
- "Fred Flintstone"/"Freddie"/"Fast Freddie" = Andrew Flintoff, England all-rounder
- "Gangles" = Sourav Ganguly, India batsman
- "Gauti" = Gautam Gambhir, India batsman
- "Gazza" = Gary Kirsten, South Africa batsman
- "Hansie" = Wessel Cronje, South Africa batsman
- "The Haryana Hurricane" = Kapil Dev, India all-rounder
- "The Iceman" = Steve Waugh, Australia batsman
- "Jammy" = Rahul Dravid, India batsman
- "Jimmy" = Mohinder Amarnath, India batsman
- "Junior" = Mark Waugh, Australia batsman
- "King of Spain" = Ashley Giles, England left-arm spinner
- "The Little Master" =
- Sachin Tendulkar, India batsman
- Sunil Gavaskar, India batsman
- "Maestro" = Sachin Tendulkar, India batsman
- "Mahi" = M. S. Dhoni, India wicket-keeper/batsman
- "Marauder from Matara" = Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka batsman
- "Bogstar" = Shamilal Mendis, Sri Lanka batsman
- "Little Kalu" = Romesh Kaluwitharana, Sri Lanka batsman
- "Master Blaster" =
- Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka batsman
- Viv Richards, West Indies batsman
- Sachin Tendulkar, India batsman
- "Mr. Cricket" = Michael Hussey, Australia batsman
- "Monty" = Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, England left-arm spinner
- "Murali" = Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lanka off spinner
- "Nawab of Najafgarh" = Virendar Sehwag, India all-rounder
- "Oswald" = Brett Lee, Australia fast bowler
- "Pigeon" = Glen McGrath, Australia fast bowler
- "The Prince" = Brian Lara, Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies batsman
- "Punter" = Ricky Ponting, Australia all-rounder
- "The Silver Prince" = Sourav Ganguly, India batsman
- "Sheikh of Tweak" = Shane Warne, Australia bowler
- "Slinga" or "Slinger" = Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka fast bowler (from his roundarm bowling action, unique in modern cricket)
- "Smokey" = Viv Richards, West Indies batsman
- "Sultan of Swing" = Wasim Akram, Pakistani fast bowler
- "Sunny" = Sunil Gavaskar, India batsman
- "Tendlya" = Sachin Tendulkar, India batsman
- "Tiger" =
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, India batsman
- Bill O'Reilly, Australia leg spinner
- "Tugga" = Steve Waugh, Australia batsman
- "The Turbanator" = Harbhajan Singh, India off spinner
- "Very Very Special" = Vangipurappu Laxman; batsman
- "Viru" = Virender Sehwag, India batsman
- "The Wall" = Rahul Dravid, India batsman
- "Whispering Death" = Michael Holding, West Indies fast bowler
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Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)