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A
Bobby Abel — The Guv'nor
Jimmy Adams — Padams
Paul Adams — Gogga ("insect" in Afrikaans), A frog in a blender (for his unusual bowling action)
Ajit Agarkar — Bombay Duck (for his horror streak of ducks against Australia)
Jonathan Agnew — Aggers
Shoaib Akhtar — Rawalpindi Express
Wasim Akram — Prince of Pakistan, Was, Sultan of Swing
Terry Alderman — Clem (after Clem Jones, mayor of Brisbane, curator of Gabba and an alderman)
Mark Alleyne — BooBoo
Mohinder Amarnath — Jimmy, Amarnought
Surinder Amarnath — Tommy
Warwick Armstrong — the Big Ship
Jason Arnberger — Cheesy
Geoff Arnold — Horse

B
Trevor Bailey — The Boil, Barnacle
Omari Banks — Bankie, Cowheb
Richie Benaud — Diamonds
Tino Best — The Best, Ntini
Michael Bevan — Bevvo
Andrew Bichel — Bic
Jack Blackham — Black Jack
David Boon — Boonie, Keg on Legs, Stumpy
Allan Border — A.B., Captain Grumpy
Ian Botham — Beefy,The Both,Guy
Mark Boucher — Guinness, Billy
Nicky Boje — Bodge
Nathan Bracken — Bracks
Don Bradman — the Don

C
Andy Caddick — Caddyshack
Chris Cairns — B.A. (Bad Attitude)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul — Tiger
Ian Chappell — Chapelli
Ewen Chatfield — Chats, Farmer (Mer) or The Naenae Express
Stuart Clark — Sarfraz, Stu
Michael Clarke — Pup
Paul Collingwood — Nice Ginger
Herbie Collins — Horseshoe
Corey Collymore — Screw
Jeremy Coney — Mantis
Colin Cowdrey — Kipper
Jeff Crowe — Chopper
Martin Crowe — Hogan

D
Joe Darling — Paddy
Phillip DeFreitas — Half-Chocolate
Aravinda de Silva — Mad Max
Fanie de Villiers — Vinnige Fanie ("Fast Fanie" in Afrikaans)
Kapil Dev — The Haryana Express
Mahendra Singh Dhoni &mdash Mahi
Graham Dilley — Pica
Boeta Dippenaar — Dipps
Allan Donald — White Lightning
Brett Dorey — Hunky, John
J.W.H.T. Douglas — Johnny Won't Hit Today
Rahul Dravid — Jammy, The Wall

E
Bruce Edgar — Bootsy

F
Damien Fleming — Flemo
Stephen Fleming — Flange
Duncan Fletcher — Fletch
Keith Fletcher — The Gnome of Essex
Andrew Flintoff — Freddy, Twiggy
James Foster — The Child
Graeme Fowler — Foxy
C. B. Fry — Lord Oxford, Charles III, Almighty

G
Saurav Ganguly — Maharaj, Prince of Calcutta, Dada, Bengali Tiger, Lord Snooty
Joel Garner — Big Bird
Sunil Gavaskar — Sunny, The Little Master
Chris Gayle — Cramps, Crampy
Herschelle Gibbs — Scooter, The Sack Man
Adam Gilchrist — Churchy, Gilly
Ashley Giles —Ash, the King of Spain
Jason Gillespie — Dizzy
Johnny Gleeson — Cho
Darren Gough — Rhino
E. M. Grace — The Coroner
W.G. Grace — The Doctor
Mark Greatbatch — Paddy
Clarrie Grimmett — 'The Old Fox; Grum
Subhash Gupte — Fergie

H
Brad Haddin — BJ, Harry, Guildo
Richard Hadlee — Paddles
Andrew Hall — Brosh, Merv, Hally
Stephen Harmison — Harmy (or Harmi), Tinker, GBH (Grievous Bodily Harmison to the Barmy Army)
Chris Harris — Harry, Lugs
Ian Harvey — Freak
Nathan Hauritz — Horry
Matthew Hayden — Haydos, Unit
Nantie Hayward — Wayward Hayward
George Headley — Black Bradman
Ian Healy — Heals
Hunter Hendry — Stork
Paul Hitchcock — Alfred
Jack Hobbs — The Master
Brad Hogg— George, Hoggy', The Postman'
Matthew Hoggard — Hoggy, Shrek
Michael Holding — Whispering Death
Bob Holland — Dutchy
James Hopes — Hopesy, Jimbo, Catfish
Merv Hughes — Fruitfly, Swerve', Swerv'n Merv'n'
Simon Hughes — Yozzer
Nasser Hussain — Nass (by the commentators)
Michael Hussey — The Huss, Mr Cricket

I
Inzamam ul Haq — Aloo (potato), Inzy
Bert Ironmonger — Dainty

J
Ridley Jacobs — Ras Bell, Riddler
Sanath Jayasuriya — The Matara Mauler
Gilbert Jessop — The Croucher
Dean Jones — Deano
Sylvester Joseph — Bouncing

K
Mohammed Kaif — Kaifu
Jacques Kallis — Kalahari, Jackes
Danish Kaneria — Nani Dani
Michael Kasprowicz — Kasper
Simon Katich — Stiffler, Kat', Katshit'
Justin Kemp — Daryll (Shane Warne's sledging)
Imran Khan — The Lion of Lahore, The King of Swing
Michael Klinger — Maxy
Lance Klusener — Zulu
Anil Kumble — Jumbo

L
Justin Langer — BNG, Brown Nose Gnome, Alf
Charl Langeveldt — Langes
Brian Lara — The Prince
Gavin Larsen — The Postman (apparently he always delivered!)
Harold Larwood — Lol
Bill Lawry — Phantom, Phanta, The corpse with pads on (he loved Phantom comics)
Geoff Lawson — Henry
VVS Laxman — Very Very Special
Brett Lee — Bing, Oswald
Warren Lees — Wally
Darren Lehmann — Boof, Shrek
Henry Leveson-Gower — Shrimp
Dennis Lillee — D.K., F.O.T (F*****g Old Tart)
Denis Lindsay — Sporty
Clive Lloyd — Super Cat
David Lloyd — Bumble
Martin Love — Lovey, Pumper

M
Charles Macartney — Governor-General
Stuart MacGill — Stuey, Magilla
Ken Mackay — Slasher
Jimmy Maher — Mahbo
Mahendra Singh Dhoni — Mahi, Mahive
Ashley Mallett — Rowdy
Sanjay Manjrekar — Sanj
Vijay Manjrekar — The Wanderer
Charles Marriott — Father Marriott
Geoff Marsh — Swampy
Rod Marsh — Iron Gloves, Bacchus
Xavier Marshall — X, Mad Max
Frederick Martin — Nutty
Damien Martyn — Marto
Lloyd Mash — Monster, Bangers (in the U.K.)
Greg Matthews — Mo
Glenn McGrath — Pigeon
Graham McKenzie — Garth
Craig McMillan — Macca
Colin Miller — Funky
Keith Miller — Nugget
Tom Moody — Long
Dave Mohammed — Tadpole[1]
Danny Morrison — Deke
Runako Morton — Ronnie
Don Mosey — The Alderman
Muttiah Muralitharan — The Smiling Assassin, Murali, MuMu, Master technician
Saqlain Mushtaq — Saqi, Professor (wears glasses and outsmarts the batsman)

N
Andre Nel — Nella
Mfuneko Ngam — Chewey (Chewey'N gam)
Monty Noble — Mary Ann
Makhaya Ntini — Macky

O
Chris Old — Chilly (from C.Old)
Bill O'Reilly — Tiger
Kerry O'Keeffe — Skull

P
Milford Page — Curly
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi — Tiger
Parthiv Patel — Bachcha (child in Hindi)
Kevin Pietersen — K.P.
Graeme Pollock — The Little Dog
Peter Pollock — The Big Dog
Shaun Pollock — Polly, Ginger, The Nibbler
Ricky Ponting — Punter
Ashwell Prince — Ashy P

Q
Abdul Qadir — Qadu

R
Carl Rackemann — Mocca
Venkatapathy Raju — Muscles
Denesh Ramdin — Shoppy
Ravi Rampaul — Frisco Kid
Mark Ramprakash — Bloodaxe
Ranjitsinhji — Black Prince of Cricketers, the Midsummer night's dream of cricket, Ranji, Smith
Derek Randall — Arkle
Yalaka Venugopal Rao — Venu
Abdul Razzaq — Razzler
Bruce Reid — Chook
Paul Reiffel — Pistol
Dave Renneburg — Big Shine
Vivian Richards — Master Blaster, the Master
Mark Richardson — Rigor, Rig
Greg Ritchie — Fat Cat
Steve Rixon — Stumper
Jacques Rudolph — Jackie
Ken Rutherford — Ruds or Rudder

S
Mohammed Sami — Salami, The Karachi Express
Virender Sehwag — Veeru, New Tendulkar
Paul Sheahan — Timbers
Bob Simpson — Simmo
Navjot Singh Sidhu —Sherry, Jonty Singh, Sixer Sidhu
Matthew Sinclair — Skippy
Harbhajan Singh —The Turbanator, Bhajji (by team-mates)
Yuvraj Singh —Yuvi
Michael Slater — Slats
Peter Sleep — Sounda
Sir Aubrey Smith — Round the Corner
E. J. Smith — Tiger
Ian Smith — Stockley
Graeme Smith — Biff
Jim Smith — Big Jim
Martin Snedden — Sneds
Fred Spofforth — Demon
Javagal Srinath — Babu
Keith Stackpole — Stacky
Brian Statham — George
Edward Stevens — Lumpy
Alec Stewart — Wizenedone, Gaffer
Andrew Strauss — Straussy
Scott Styris — Pig
Andrew Symonds — Symo, Roy, Golden Bollocks

T
Mark Taylor — Tubby
Sachin Tendulkar — Tendiya, Little Master, The Master Blaster
Alan Thomson — Froggie
Jeff Thomson — Two-up
Graham Thorpe — The Shagger
Ernie Toshack — The Dark Prince
Marcus Trescothick — Banger, Tresco
Fred Trueman — Fiery Fred
Hugh Trumble — Little Eva
Daryl Tuffey — Hightower
Phil Tufnell — The Cat, Tuffers
Charlie Turner — Terror
Frank Tyson — Typhoon

U
Shaun Udal — Shaggy
Derek Underwood — Deadly

V
Michael Vaughan — Virgil, Vaughny
Dilip Vengsarkar — Colonel
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan — Venkat
Daniel Vettori — Lucas, Danny
Lou Vincent — Flusher
Maharajkumar of Vizianagram — Vizzy

W
Max Walker — Tangles
Doug Walters — Freddie, Bikki
Shane Warne — Warney, Hollywood, The Sheikh of Tweak
Shane Watson — Watto
Steve Waugh — Tugga, Iceman
Mark Waugh — Junior, Afghanistan (The forgotten waugh)
Cameron White — Carn
Craig White — Chalky
Jeff Wilson — Goldie
Paul Wilson — Blocker
Matthew Windows — Steamy
Paul Wiseman — Whizz
Bill Woodfull — The Rock
John Wright — Shake
Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis (as a bowling partnership) — The Two W's, The Sultans of Reverse Swing
Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell — The Three W's

XYZ
Jai Yadav — J.P.
Yousuf Youhana — Yo-Yo
Waqar Younis — Wicki, The Buruwela Bomber

[Blwe_torch]

Great collection dex!
May I add...that SG is more popular as Dadi!
And Kapil Dev as Paaji
Manoj Prabhakar...as Hunter.

[Blwe_torch]

Another one for Anil Kumble..going back to his County days..Apple Crumble!

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Eddie Barlow.....-Bunter.

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blwe, go ahead and edit the main document!

[Blwe_torch]

ok

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Mark Ramprakash — Bloodaxe

man that's a strange one for man not too well known for any big hitting