Animal Names Referenced in Cricket

[SillyCowCorner1]

Cow corner
Spider cam
Bee hive
“Gone for a duck”
“He’s no rabbit with the bat”
“Pujara is Anderson’s bunny”
“Duckworth-Lewis-Stern”
Jamaica Scorpions
“Kangaroo curry for dinner”
“Bangladesh Tigers”
“England Lions”

I’m out of choices now lol

List yours

 

[trundler]

Jack Badcock
Tiger Pataudi

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Is Lyon the goat?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Bat

 

[Daemon]

Sounds like a job for @Howe_zat

 

[Daemon]

Jackson Bird
Kemar Roach

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Cricket

 

[ParwazHaiJunoon]

Pakistan Shaheens

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Winning And Score Predictor

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Pakistan Shaheens

?

anyway horses for courses

 

[Magrat Garlick]

also workhorse bowlers

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

 

[BoyBrumby]

Sticky dogs.

Hawk-eye.

The scoring worm used in limited overs to plot the progress of the chasing team.

Ferrets (the uber rubbish batters who "go in after the rabbits")

A dab down to third man.

Fly slip.

Badgers (mentalist enthusiasts like Paul Nixon)

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The Laughing Kookaburra. He’s just spotted Jimmy Anderson about to have a bowl.

 

[Tom Flint]

Tailender

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Hayden’s mongoose bat

 

[BoyBrumby]

Monkey Hornby

Allan Lamb

Ian "Bunny" Austin

Eddie "The Whale" Hemmings

APE Knott

Glenn "Pigeon" McGrath

Michael "Pup" Clarke

Joel "Big Bird" Garner

Bruce "Roo" Yardley

Geoff "Horse" Arnold

Phil "The Cat" Tufnell

 

[Lillian Thomson]

If we’re adding nicknames:
Ian Beefy Botham
Derek Arkle Randall

 

[BoyBrumby]

If we’re adding nicknames:
Ian Beefy Botham
Derek Arkle Randall

Botham used to get called "Guy the Gorilla" in his early days too, didn't he?

Jack Russell

Shaun Pollock

 

[Immenso]

Well, in researching what the hell arkle has to do with animals. I have discovered that "a hack" is - " a type of horse used for riding and pulling carriages " (as opposed to an equestrian sport horse)