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how about we clear up some common spelling mistakes of cricketers' names!


"Phil Jaques" -not jacques
"Stuart Clark" -not stuart clarke
"Michael Clarke" -not michael clark
"Kevin Pietersen" -not kevin pieterson
"Monty Panesar" -not ponaser, panesor or ponasa
"Inzamam-ul-Haq" - not Inzimam-ul-Haq
"Brian Lara "- not Brain Lara
"Ricky Ponting" - not Ricky Pointing
"Glenn McGrath" - Not Glen
"Brett Lee - not Bret"
"Virender Sehwag -not Shewag"
Glen Chapple has only one 'n'.
Jamie Dalrymple isn't Darylmple.
Andrew Flintoff's first name isn't Freddie (not a spelling mistake but hey ho, whilst we're at it)
Andrew Strauss with three 'S', two at the end.
Graeme Smith not 'Graham'.
Stuart Broad not Braod.
Mohammad Yousuf not Mohammed Yousef.
Sajid Mahmood not Mamood, Mahood or Mahmoood
Shahid Afridi - No Sahid Afrdi or anything of the sort.
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sanath Jayasuriya
Mahela Jayawardene
Michael Vaughan not Vaughn, Varne, or any other way you can think.
 
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Inzamam-ul-Haq - not Inzimam-ul-Haq

And can't forget the two classics:

Brian Lara - not Brain Lara
Ricky Ponting - not Ricky Pointing
 
andrew_nixon said:
Inzamam-ul-Haq - not Inzimam-ul-Haq

And can't forget the two classics:

Brian Lara - not Brain Lara
Ricky Ponting - not Ricky Pointing
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Brain and Pointing. :D Atleast they have the names but what about Asian players Athrapatta(Attapattu),Murli(Murgalidaron)
 
gaurav_indian said:
Brain and Pointing. :D Atleast they have the names but what about Asian players Athrapatta(Attapattu),Murli(Murgalidaron)
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We're not talking about fake names in cricket games, we're talking about common mis-spellings. Such as Murli when it should be Murali...
 
Believe it or not, i've encountered a few people who say Trescotick, mistakingly believing that the name lacks an H.
 
symonds_sixes said:
I've heard many people say Glenn McGrath and actually saying the "th" at the end!
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Nothing to do with spelling, but many people do say the "th" at the end due to regional accent variations. I always say the "th", same as I do for bath.
 
There's a few Indian ones:

Virender Sehwag, not Shewag

Ha, I can't think of anything else. Good job, guys.
 
Glen Chapple has only one 'n'.
Jamie Dalrymple isn't Darylmple.
Andrew Flintoff's first name isn't Freddie (not a spelling mistake but hey ho, whilst we're at it)
Andrew Strauss with three 'S', two at the end.
Graeme Smith not 'Graham'.
Stuart Broad not Braod.
Mohammad Yousuf not Mohammed Yousef.
Of course there are bound to be more but that's all I can think of for now.
 
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Sajid Mahmood not Mamood, Mahood or Mahmoood (however much Bob Willis says it :p)
 
Thanks for pointing this out. Now I'll know exactly how to miss-spell these names.
 
Top thread. Should be stickied :p
sohummisra said:
There's a few Indian ones:

Virender Sehwag, not Shewag

Ha, I can't think of anything else. Good job, guys.
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To be fair, I have heard many Indian commentators pronouncing it Shewag, so that's probably where people come up with that.
 
Shahid Afridi - No Sahid Afrdi or anything of the sort.
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sanath Jayasuriya
Mahela Jayawardene
 
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