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Post by newby on Oct 27, 2023 8:09:55 GMT
The splendidly named Zach Lion-Cachet has been awarded a rookie contract by Sussex. Well done to him and the more prosaically named Henry Rogers who joins him.
He's still no match for my own favourite, Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable, who played for Yorkshire and the MCC when his military duties allowed.
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Post by davemorton on Oct 27, 2023 12:04:08 GMT
I like Gregor MacGregor, who may have been just a tad Scottish! He kept wicket for Middlesex and England, and played rugby (full-back or centre) for Cambridge University, London Scottish and Scotland, for whom he won 13 caps between 1890 and 1896. He also played in the first ever Barbarians team.
I suspect his accent may have been more Duke of Edinburgh than Rab C Nesbitt.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Oct 30, 2023 11:40:07 GMT
Current favourite is Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton who plays for Namibia!
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Post by newby on Oct 30, 2023 18:08:46 GMT
I looked up Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton using the AI powered ChatGPT.
Namibian cricket came up, tick not a very lofty 5ft 9 inches tall, tick It refers to him as her and she, untick.
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Post by newby on Nov 16, 2023 21:26:28 GMT
New favourite Jake Fraser-McGurk.
Plays for South Australia, sounds like a hardman from somewhere deep in the outback. 21 years old looks like a schoolboy.
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Post by karma on Nov 16, 2023 22:30:43 GMT
All these are lovely names but my favourite or rather favourites are the names Ryan Sidebottom and Ryan Sidebottom.
Side bottom conjures up all sorts of images and maybe we'd better not delve too deeply into that. But Yorkshire's Sidebottom was a championship winner par excellence a superb bowler and competitive athlete.
When the second Ryan Sidebottom came along, I thought he'd done a 'Jason Gillespie' ie pretended to retire only to emerge with a different team.Traitor!
Obviously it was a different Ryan Sidebottom and with a different team but was the 2nd one's name just pure coincidence or was the Christian name chosen out of a supporter showing appreciation for an excellent career , like I suppose, calling your child Elvis?
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Post by newby on Nov 18, 2023 18:07:20 GMT
We had several Sidebottoms and a Rowbottom at our school. A name liable to a fair amount of mockery at schoolboy level I seem to remember.
The names seem to derive from Cheshire/Lancashire with the 'bottom or botham appearing to indicate someone from a wide valley. Perhaps the Bothams stayed in the area and the Bottoms came over to Yorkshire.
I think I'd personally do a Bouquet/Bucket and change mine to Sidebotham if that was the name I had been given.
I apologise if we have any but if it had been Shufflebottom it would have been a full deed poll job to Smith.
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Post by karma on Nov 18, 2023 18:20:18 GMT
We had two called 'Watt' at school in York. Usual joke, ' "What's your name?" "that's right" ' etc etc and one Shuttleworth.
I think I might have said this before but I always had a hankering to be a carpet fitter purely so I could have in golden letters on the side of a green van the made-up name
'Walter Wall Carpets'
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Post by tykemania on Nov 20, 2023 16:32:50 GMT
When Matty Wood was opening the batting for us he was one of three MJ Wood's in the county game.
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Post by newby on Nov 20, 2023 22:33:17 GMT
I remember the one from Somerset, also an opener who scored some serious runs against us on one occasion. He moved on to Notts later.
I thought the other one was Hampshire but I can't find him so I must be wrong about that.
There's a few Taylor's, Smith's and Patel's around but surprisingly little duplication of Surnames around English cricket. Curran's, Root's, Parkinson's and a few other relational ones aside.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Nov 21, 2023 8:24:12 GMT
sadly the opportunity to see Stuart Broad batting with Finlay Bean has gone now Stuart has retired.
The scoreboard would probably have had to show Broad Bean.
Any other combinations that would make you chuckle?
Joe Root and Will Beer perhaps?
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Post by karma on Nov 21, 2023 9:30:46 GMT
How about the two Phill's, Salt and Mustard ?
Or stretching a point Allan Lamb and Beefy ( Sir Ian Botham)
Or South African Clive Rice and Graham Onions
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Post by slowleftarmer on Nov 21, 2023 12:11:07 GMT
actually you may have seen Mustard and Onions on the Durham scoreboard a few times.
But I doubt you would see Salt and Pepper (Phil and Cec) as they were a few generations apart.
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Post by newby on Nov 21, 2023 13:26:54 GMT
Contemporaneous makes it tricky, at least at first glance. Maxwell House (Glenn Maxwell/Will House) or Young and Old (Will Young/Chris Old) we won't see but perhaps there was another Young about playing cricket at the same time as Chris!
Hammond Organ (Miles and Felix) or Vince Hill (James and George). Must be a quiz in there somewhere.
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Post by slowleftarmer on Nov 21, 2023 16:01:53 GMT
In the 70s there was Vic Marks at Somerset and John Spencer at Sussex of course.
Sadly not sure they played together, and neither did Essex's Stephen Peters and Australia's Brett Lee.....
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