Novelty XIs Compendium

[h_hurricane]

First and last name starting with the same alphabet XI

Gordon Greenidge
Graham Gooch
Richie Richardson
Steve Smith
Colin Cowdrey
Mushtaq Mohammad
Tatenda Taibu
Peter Pollock
Malcolm Marshall
Colin Croft
Muttiah Muralitharan

Chris Cairns and Mulvantrai Mankad could also be included but I felt Mushtaq Mohammad was the better batsman and fits the fifth bowler's role as well. Yousuf Youhana loses out because of name change.

 

[honestbharani]

Stan Lee would have made superheroes out of all of these names...

 

[Howe_zat]

Nintendo XI

Mayank Agarwaluigi
Anamul Crossing Haque
Alinkya Rahane
Thilan Samusaweera
Bev Donkey Congdon
Samiullah Shenwario
Nayan Pokemongia+
Sunil Yoshi
Omario Banks
Bill Bowser
Steve Kirby

12th man Cameron Gannon

 

[Howe_zat]

The above is Dan's fault ftr

 

[OverratedSanity]

Anamul Crossing Haque

 

[OverratedSanity]

...

Cricketers whose names sound boring XI

Boredom Greenidge
John trite
Rahul Drawvid
Allan Boreder (c)
Ken Borington
Monotony Greig
Allan Not-interesting (wk)
Waqar Yawnis
Mundane Piedt
Simon Dull
Venkat-apathy raju

 

[Howe_zat]

XIley

1. Dom Sibley
2. Zak Crawley
3. George Headley
4. Tom Westley
5. Frank Woolley
6. Mike Brearley
7. Trevor Bailey
8. Dick Lilley
9. Graham Dilley
10. Arthur Mailey
11. James Kirtley

 

[Howe_zat]

And inspired by AndrewB, the shortest possible names XI (that I can think of)

1. Jason Roy
2. Rob Key
3. Peter May
4. Joe Root
5. Ian Bell
6. Moeen Ali
7. Les Ames
8. Chris Old
9. Tim May
10. Mark Wood
11. Jo Angel

80 letters total

 

[Prince EWS]

And inspired by AndrewB, the shortest possible names XI (that I can think of)

1. Jason Roy
2. Rob Key
3. Peter May
4. Joe Root
5. Ian Bell
6. Moeen Ali
7. Les Ames
8. Chris Old
9. Tim May
10. Mark Wood
11. Jo Angel

80 letters total

I'd like to nominate one of my favourite New Zealand cricketers.

 

[NUFAN]

Just off the bat its good but I get the feeling the 8 letter names could be replaced.

Im not going to go through lists, but Ed Cowan is someone I thought of.

 

[honestbharani]

And inspired by AndrewB, the shortest possible names XI (that I can think of)

1. Jason Roy
2. Rob Key
3. Peter May
4. Joe Root
5. Ian Bell
6. Moeen Ali
7. Les Ames
8. Chris Old
9. Tim May
10. Mark Wood
11. Jo Angel

80 letters total

Brett Lee for Mark Wood.. Same # of letters, better team.

 

[honestbharani]

And Shai Hope deserves to be in there somewhere.

 

[Prince EWS]

Abid Ali should get a run.

Are we considering Dhoni's first name to be "MS" or "Mahendra"?

 

[honestbharani]

Nah.. integrity is paramount in such exercises. Its Mahendra Singh Dhoni. You could use Arun Lal or Madan Lal though

 

[Prince EWS]

Nah.. integrity is paramount in such exercises. Its Mahendra Singh Dhoni. You could use Arun Lal or Madan Lal though

Enough with the eight-character names man, they don't get us anywhere.

Arun Lal is a good call though.

 

[NUFAN]

Abid Ali should get a run.

Are we considering Dhoni's first name to be "MS" or "Mahendra"?

CB Fry.

Definitely cheating btw.

 

[honestbharani]

Well technically most South Indian players have only one name. The surname is not a thing here. So you can have any of Srikkanth, Ramesh, Balaji etc. without breaking the "rules"..

 

[NUFAN]

Zoe Goss and Isa Guha.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yeah CB Fry was in the original side but was considered a cheat.

Update:

1. Ed Cowan
2. Abid Ali
3. Rob Key
4. Joe Root
5. Ian Bell
6. Zoe Goss
7. Les Ames
8. Umar Gul
9. Tim May
10. Jo Angel
11. Isa Guha

Down to 76 letters. Can't really pick Arun Lal over Chris Old and still have enough bowlers though

Edit: we can pick Gul though. 75. Thank you for taking this exercise seriously, I think we really achieved something today.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah CB Fry was in the original side but was considered a cheat.

Update:

1. Ed Cowan
2. Abid Ali
3. Rob Key
4. Joe Root
5. Ian Bell
6. Zoe Goss
7. Les Ames
8. Chris Old
9. Tim May
10. Jo Angel
11. Isa Guha

Down to 76 letters. Can't really pick Arun Lal over Chris Old and still have enough bowlers though

Umar Gul