Comments on: Jason Gillespie’s retirement

By: Miriam

Miriam — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:04:00 +0000

I thought Little Master was Gavaskar. In which case it’s a THIRD-HAND nickname! gaaah!

By: skchai

skchai — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:09:23 +0000

I must admit the blogging community (meaning you folks) have been striving mightily to improve the situation, e.g. Wing Commander and Badonkadonk, to name but two, but the mainstream media for their own nefarious reasons fail to pick it up.

Instead, we have the world where perhaps the greatest player of his time (Sachin) has two nicknames, but both are lifted from other greats (and neither was much of a nickname to begin with): Master Blaster (Viv Richards) and Little Master (Don Bradman).

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:59:26 +0000

Creepy Crawley, Chucky Hegg – those aren’t modern though.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:27:27 +0000

I’m now struggling to come up with ANY non-lame cricket nicknames.

By: skchai

skchai — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:31:37 +0000

Maybe because he was embarrassed by the lameness of his nickname. It would sort of be like Steve “Evelyn” Waugh or Matthew “Franz Josef” Hayden. Probably the only reason that particular lame nickname stuck is that he couldn’t be called “Gilly” because that was already taken.

Actually, lame nicknames are the bane of modern cricket. One would have a hard time coming up with a “Non-Lame Nickname XI”, while the -ys, -ies, and -ers would fill up a phone book. Unfortunately, the real good nicknames like Danger Anus don’t seem to stick.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:44:38 +0000

Don’t know. It was one of those ‘meet the team’ type things where everyone was asked the same three questions.

Trust us – it looked bad at the time.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:11:45 +0000

I think you judged him a little harshly on the nickname thing. It was a stupid question from the interviewer. It would have been funny if Gillespie had said “oh, you know, I have low blood pressure and keep fainting”.