This quiz will test your knowledge on namesakes in cricket.
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It is more or less well-known that there are two Ollie Robinsons in English domestic cricket at this point (one of them has played Test cricket). While unusual, they are not unique in this. In the mid-2010s, Mitchell Santner joked to his New Zealand teammate that the Worcestershire captain was the best Daryl Mitchell in cricket.
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Pakistan captain Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani shared his first and last names with a contemporary Indian wicketkeeper, but he preferred to use his middle names, Zaheer Abbas.
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Take our quiz to test your knowledge on the myriad namesakes in cricket. Do note that these are exact matches of names – in other words, Mehidy and Mahedi Hasan, Claire and Clare Taylor, Abdul Razzaq and Abdur Razzak, Mohammad Sami and Mohammed Shami do not qualify.
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