Quiz! Match the cricketing ‘-man’ to their achievement

Abhishek Mukherjee

Dec 09, 2025 1 minute read Quizzes

In this quiz, you have to match cricketers whose names end with “-man” to their achievements.

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During England’s 1948/49 tour of South Africa, visiting captain George Mann fell to left-arm spinner “Tufty” Mann. Behind the microphone, the legendary John Arlott summed up the dismissal by tweaking Robert Burns’ immortal line, “a case of Mann’s inhumanity to Mann”.

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Arlott’s line has been immortalised over the many retellings, but there have been cricketers at all levels for whom he would not have needed to remove the “n” in the end.

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This quiz is about cricketers whose names end with the letters “man”. Every question includes hints about a cricketer from the given list: all you have to do is click on the correct name on the list.

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