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Reading about Scotland vs Canada (who do you support there Angus?),

I noticed that former West Indian player Anderson Cummins is now playing for Canada and to give his full name...

Anderson Cleophas Cummins

it reminded me that there have been some fanstastic middle names (especially in the West Indian team) like Sylvester Theopholis Clarke and Nixon Alexei McNamara McLean for example.

Anyone want to add to the list?

 



-- Edited by El Presidente at 19:06, 2007-01-23

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I always thought Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose was a pretty good set of names.

Sri Lankans and Windies are gonna top this chart I imagine.

 

Though LjCC does have at least one stalwart with the traditional cricketer three-initials...

 Mr DEM R of course



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Golcar CC wrote:

Though LjCC does have at least one stalwart with the traditional cricketer three-initials...

 Mr DEM R of course

Why do you say that, Morris?



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El Treasurorio wrote:
Golcar CC wrote:

Though LjCC does have at least one stalwart with the traditional cricketer three-initials...

Mr DEM R of course

Why do you say that, Morris?


 I like the Morris. I always regretted having just the one middle name, when it came to cricket - I think it would've helped. 



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Don't forget it is also SGD Fish.

My favourite in our team is Harry. Normal 1st name, strange middle one.



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Golcar CC wrote:

 I like the Morris. I always regretted having just the one middle name, when it came to cricket - I think it would've helped. 

Being named after a rubbish car? Oh well, maybe it's not as bad as somebody at school I knew who was called: Tristram David Lynton Irving-Flynn. Quite a mouthful....

 



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There was a lass at our primary school Gaynor ... Smith-Milne who had 17 middle names. Wouldn't go down well at the Slovenian registry office.     

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Obviously the best one in our own fine club is

Kalawila Withanage Don Tyronne Lalantha Karunatilake

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I have always liked Clive Hubert Lloyd as a fine middle name and there was also this guy running around for the Windies in the mid to late 80s...

Eldine Ashworth Elderfield Baptiste



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Heath Davis (New Zealand test bowler of the mid 90's) had the full name Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangi Davis. Not so much a name, more a mouth muscle exercise.
Also remember Chris Lewis, patchy England and Notts pace bowler? He was Christopher Clairmonte Lewis.
And let's at least give honourable mention to Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas - enough names in there for almost a whole team. And judging by his single-handed humiliation of England last summer with bat and ball, enough talent too...

-- Edited by Muppet at 14:04, 2007-01-25

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Excellent find Muppet. (I love calling people Muppet by the way)

 On a similar tip how about Murphy Logo Su'a - another New Zealand 90's pace bowler.

Or while we're still in New Zealand

Chris Zinzan Harris, brother of Ben Zinzan Harris

- both sons of  Parke Gerald Zinzan Harris



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I wonder if they suffered much from Zin zan zoolie zoolie zoolie zoolie watcha jokes at school?
Zinzanzoo, zinzanzoo...

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Not a middle name as such, but I just came across this guy

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/india/content/player/34005.html

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Lalantha must now eat his heart out.

Always troubled the scorers

-- Edited by paichukka at 10:06, 2007-05-14

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paichukka wrote:

Lalantha must now eat his heart out.

Always troubled the scorers

-- Edited by paichukka at 10:06, 2007-05-14



 Gotta love the short version (in the also known as)



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Just came across this on Cricinfo - a Fijian player called:

Bloody hell, it won't let me paste! El Presidente, how can I fix this? Anyway, if you search for I L Bula on Cricinfo, you'll find a guy with a 49-letter surname.

Scotland wins every time.

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Angus wrote:

Just came across this on Cricinfo - a Fijian player called:

Bloody hell, it won't let me paste! El Presidente, how can I fix this? Anyway, if you search for I L Bula on Cricinfo, you'll find a guy with a 49-letter surname.

Scotland wins every time.


Too slow mate. A couple of posts above you Signor Paichukka already has him (see "always troubled the scorers")

As for for problem with the paste, I'm not sure how I can help. I tried it and it worked no problem. (Maybe you forgot to press copy first?) (Try your Ctrl C / Ctrl V shortcuts?)

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On the other hand, plenty of cricketers have been rather proud of their middle names, choosing to be known to the world only by them.
The list includes Gordon Greenidge, Neil Harvey, Graeme Pollock, Lindsay Hassett, Jeff Dujon, Colin Cowdrey, Doug Walters, Brad Hogg, Godfrey Evans, Aravinda de Silva, Mike Brearley, Lance Cairns, Brian Close and, of course, Viv Richards, who quickly figured out that being called Isaac Richards would have restricted him solely to a career as an overweight soul ballad singer rather than the man who took on Lillee and Thomson wearing his wrist watch.

I seem to remember that Chris Kuggeleijn's middle name was, oddly enough, 'Mary'. weirdface

-- Edited by Club Dogsbody at 13:51, 2007-05-18

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