Bob Willis' nickname ?

Sudhi

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Aug 17, 1993, 4:45:25 PM8/17/93

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Does anybody know the nickname of Bob Willis ? (like
Joel Garner used to be called "Big Bird", for instance).
I remember that Willis had a nickname, but I am not
able to recollect it. Anybody willing to help ?

Please post and/or email your reply. Thanks.

Bye.

Regards,

--Sudhi.

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Guy L Debelle

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Aug 18, 1993, 5:07:29 PM8/18/93

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I think it was Goose due to his bowling action.

Guy
Cambridge MA

Sudhi

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Aug 22, 1993, 12:58:33 PM8/22/93

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In article <24u5mh$5...@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gdeb...@athena.mit.edu (Guy L Debelle) writes:
>I think it was Goose due to his bowling action.
>

Thanks. It was I who asked the question. I received a response to my
mailbox too and I am posting it because the person requested me to
post it on RSC (Apparently, he can't post from his a/c). He says that
the nickname is "Mad" Bob Willis.

While on the subject of nicknames, can we build a list of the nicknames
of all players, past and present. Here is a list of some of the
cricketers whose nick names that I know.

Name Nickname
---- --------

Vishwanath "Little Master"
Kapil Dev "Haryana Hurricane"
Vengsarkar "Colonel"
Clive Lloyd "Big Cat"
Vivian Richards "Master Blaster", "Run Machine"
Joel Garner "Big Bird"
...

Anybody care to add to this list ?

>Guy
>Cambridge MA

P. Armorer

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Aug 22, 1993, 1:13:37 PM8/22/93

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In article <1993Aug22.1...@usl.edu> sgs...@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhi) writes:
>In article <24u5mh$5...@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> gdeb...@athena.mit.edu (Guy L Debelle) writes:
>>I think it was Goose due to his bowling action.
>>
>
>Thanks. It was I who asked the question. I received a response to my
>mailbox too and I am posting it because the person requested me to
>post it on RSC (Apparently, he can't post from his a/c). He says that
>the nickname is "Mad" Bob Willis.
>
>While on the subject of nicknames, can we build a list of the nicknames
>of all players, past and present. Here is a list of some of the
>cricketers whose nick names that I know.
>
>Name Nickname
>---- --------
>
>Vishwanath "Little Master"
>Kapil Dev "Haryana Hurricane"
>Vengsarkar "Colonel"
>Clive Lloyd "Big Cat"
>Vivian Richards "Master Blaster", "Run Machine"
>Joel Garner "Big Bird"
>...
>
>Anybody care to add to this list ?
>
>>Guy
>>Cambridge MA
>
>Regards,
>
>--Sudhi.

Patrick Patterson "Rambo"
Michael Holding "The Gazelle" (not much of a nickname)
Roberts, Holding @ Daniel "The Terrible Trio"
Ramahdin & Valentine "The Spin Twins" (not sure)
Jeff Thomson "Thommo The Terrible/Terror" (not sure)

Any corrections are welcome. Until next time ...

Chris Stride

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Aug 22, 1993, 6:08:19 PM8/22/93

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Michael Holding was not nicknamed "The Gazelle" (well, he might have been, but it
wasn't THAT commonly used).
His nickname was "Whispering Death", because when he ran up to the wicket, his
action was so fluent and smooth, the umpires couldn't hear him until he bowled
the ball.
I don't think I need to explain the "death" part! :)

Chris
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Mani Vembar

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Aug 23, 1993, 1:36:33 PM8/23/93

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In <1993Aug22.1...@usl.edu> sgs...@ucs.usl.edu writes:

> Thanks. It was I who asked the question. I received a response to my
> mailbox too and I am posting it because the person requested me to
> post it on RSC (Apparently, he can't post from his a/c). He says that
> the nickname is "Mad" Bob Willis.
>
> While on the subject of nicknames, can we build a list of the nicknames
> of all players, past and present. Here is a list of some of the
> cricketers whose nick names that I know.
>
> Name Nickname
> ---- --------
>
> Vishwanath "Little Master"
> Kapil Dev "Haryana Hurricane"
> Vengsarkar "Colonel"
> Clive Lloyd "Big Cat"
> Vivian Richards "Master Blaster", "Run Machine"
> Joel Garner "Big Bird"
> ...
>
> Anybody care to add to this list ?
>

I could add a few more-

Roy Fredericks - "Cement" (Got hit on the head by a Thommo bouncer and
took off running for a bye!)
Max Walker - "Tangles"
Raju - "Muscles"

>
> Regards,
>
> --Sudhi.
>
> --
-Mani

mu

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Aug 23, 1993, 6:37:47 PM8/23/93

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VEM...@engvax.picker.com (Mani Vembar) writes:
>Roy Fredericks - "Cement"
> (Got hit on the head by a Thommo bouncer
> and took off running for a bye!)

What a bat! Another one for Fredericks is, "The Happy Hooker". :-)

Anyone know what he's up to these days? Last I heard he was a Minister
for Sport in Guyana, sometime in the '80s.

Murari Venkataraman
ven...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

Chris Stride

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Aug 23, 1993, 7:55:08 PM8/23/93

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Some Aussie nicknames:
----------------------

Peter Sleep "Sounda"
Steve Waugh "Tugga" ("what is he good for")

Some NZ nicknames:
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Mark Greatbatch "Paddy" (he'll never die of anorexia! :) )
Andrew Jones "Jed" (for god sake don't ask me why, but it is..)
Martin Crowe "Hogan" (I'd say "Poser")
Lord Hadlee "Paddles" (his big feet)

Can't remember any more off-hand, might post some more later.

Chris
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Chris Stride

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Aug 23, 1993, 8:08:17 PM8/23/93

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Ok....so I remember some more from NZ:

Ewen Chatfield "Charlie" or "Mer" (short for "Farmer")
Tony Blain "Chill"
Jeremy Coney "Mantis"
Jeff Crowe "Chopper" (maybe he has big teeth???? :) )
Ken Rutherford "Rudders" (one Henry Bloefelds "originals")
Ian Smith "Stockey" (relates to his middle name - "Stockley")
John Wright "Wrighty" (gee, that's a toughie!)

Chris

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Gautham N

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Aug 23, 1993, 8:06:41 PM8/23/93

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In article <1993Aug23.1...@picker.com> VEM...@engvax.picker.com (Mani Vembar) writes:
>
>Max Walker - "Tangles"
>Raju - "Muscles"

And...

Brian McMillan - Bucket (For his catches at slip)

(Infact he was the one who named Raju as muscles...)

Waqar - Burewala Bomber

cpa...@dingo.rtp.dg.com

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Aug 24, 1993, 10:00:18 AM8/24/93

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In article <1993Aug22.1...@usl.edu> sgs...@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhi) writes:

>Anybody care to add to this list ?

Name Nickname
---- --------
Dennis Lillee "F O T"

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Gautham N

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Aug 24, 1993, 4:47:24 PM8/24/93

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In article <1993Aug24.1...@webo.dg.com> cpa...@dingo.rtp.dg.com () writes:
>In article <1993Aug22.1...@usl.edu> sgs...@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhi) writes:
>>Anybody care to add to this list ?
>
>Name Nickname
>---- --------
>Dennis Lillee "F O T"
>

Manoj Prabhakar Hunter
Azharuddin Azza
Kapil Dev Tauji (Sachin named him so due to age difference)
Kiran More Joker (I'm not sure about this)

- gautham -

Neeran M. Karnik

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Aug 24, 1993, 6:50:02 PM8/24/93

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cpa...@dingo.rtp.dg.com () writes:

>In article <1993Aug22.1...@usl.edu> sgs...@ucs.usl.edu (Sudhi) writes:
>>Anybody care to add to this list ?

>Name Nickname
>---- --------
>Dennis Lillee "F O T"

That's "Flippin' Old Tart" :-) Apparently, it's now changed to
"W O T", i.e. World's Oldest Teenager :-)

>Chris Palmer "Ashes to ashes,

Anand Chakravarty

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Aug 24, 1993, 11:09:34 PM8/24/93

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In article <1993Aug24.1...@webo.dg.com> cpa...@dingo.rtp.dg.com () writes:

>Name Nickname
>---- --------
>Dennis Lillee "F O T"

Bill Lawry Phantom

The story behind this, as per an old article from `Sportstar',
is that during his first series, Bill Lawry was travelling with his
team by train from one Test venue to another. The gentlemen were boarded
and ready to begin the journey, when someone noticed that they didn't
have anything to read during the long trip. The captain (forget his name)
asked the rookie Lawry to get down and buy some books. Bill gets down
and goes over to the book shop; and notices that time is running out,
the train might leave anytime now, and he does not know his team-mates'
reading habits. So he hastily flings some cash to the 'keeper and grabs
a handful of things which he first lays hands on.
Back on the train, he hands over the books to his captain, probably
expecting a vote of thanks. :-) The captain takes a look at the books and
says : `Great Bill, we all can have a good time now. A bunch of bloody
Phantom comics.'
Or is this just another Old Man Mozz tale ?

'Bye
ANAND

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Jonathan Naylor

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Aug 24, 1993, 4:21:40 PM8/24/93

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And of course in the Ashes series:

Merv Hughes --- Sumo

Every time he appeared, bowled, walked to the boundary or breathed, someone
would start chanting Sumo in the ground. This was presumably because his
physique is not what you'd expect from a fast bowler.

Jonathan

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premcons

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Aug 27, 1993, 7:59:35 PM8/27/93

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Anand Chakravarty (acha...@tick.occ.uc.edu) wrote:

: In article <1993Aug24.1...@webo.dg.com> cpa...@dingo.rtp.dg.com () writes:
: >Name Nickname

: >Dennis Lillee "F O T"

: Bill Lawry Phantom

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A couple, Australian Shield players;

Craig McDermott: "Billy the Kid"
Len Pascoe: "Lightning" ('For his mind!')
"Glue Head" (Reasons unknown)
John Invarerity "Forever" (or, "In-foreverity")
Greg Mathews "Wierd" (Well, that's what the GABBA crowd know
him as.)
Andrew Ried "Sheep" -

The Andrew Ried story deserves a mention. He never amounted to much as
as player, but this story is told everywhere Country Cricketers gather
and drink.

Ried was a batsman, a half decent openner in the Boycott mould. It was
said he could 'hold down his end', which usually involved five hours
of a slight shuffle forward, and either pulling the bat out of the way
or swaying his body to one side. This so exasperated a fast bowler
from the opposition that, during lunch on the second day when AR had
amassed 60 odd without being troubled, be carted a handfull of
sheep droppings onto the pitch and positioned them just short of
a length in line.

From the first ball after lunch the bowler probed for the spot, and
got the length right on the third ball. Andrew - who had probed
forward - was sprayed by a blinding storm of sheep pellets and had
his off-stump ripped from the ground. He protested with the umpired
but sheep were commonly used to keep the wicket area grass in trim,
and they had little option - short of accusing the fielding team
of cheating - but to dismiss him.

It ruined Andrew. Every time he took up guard thereafter, the fielding
captain sent a man in to short-forward-square to make 'Baa!'
noises. His nickname, and reputation as being 'vulnerable to
any old shit he was dished up' stuck with him for the rest of
career.

K.R.
P.B.
(premcons - who I am, not what I do)

Flashman

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Aug 30, 1993, 8:13:12 PM8/30/93

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>And of course in the Ashes series:

>Merv Hughes --- Sumo

>Every time he appeared, bowled, walked to the boundary or breathed, someone
>would start chanting Sumo in the ground. This was presumably because his
>physique is not what you'd expect from a fast bowler.

A quote from the Inside Sport about Merv was from the English crowds

"Suuummmmoo, Suuummmoo, stop eating all our pies you bastard!!!"

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