In this quiz, you have to answer questions on cricketers named after non-cricketers.
Former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson became “Henry” after legendary author and poet Henry Lawson. Graham McKenzie, who predated Lawson by a couple of decades, went by the name “Garth” because they thought he resembled the comic book character. Derek Randall, a livewire on the field, got the nickname Arkle after the Irish thoroughbred racehorse.
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But perhaps the most famous name of these was Brett Lee’s (if the usually circulated story is true, that is). If we are to believe it, Steve Waugh noticed Lee on the batting order after (Shane) Lee and Ian (Harvey), and promptly gave Brett Lee the nickname “Oswald”, after John F Kennedy’s assassin.
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How well do you know the cricketers whose nicknames were derived from characters who never played cricket? Take our quiz and find out.
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