Cricket Question

Robbo. said:
Biggsy1 said:
In 1877 England adopted a scheme of giving each player a cap number. So when each player receives their first cap they are assigned a number, that started with 1, a T Armitage. Some interesting names and numbers: 13 Lord Harris; 18 Reverend Royle; the legendary Dr W.G. Grace was 24; 25 the honourable A. Lyttleton; 96 The 7th Lord Hawk; 230 Lieutenant-Colonel RT Stanyforth and another legend Fred Trueman at 369. More recent big names include 422 Geoffrey Boycott; 477 Mike Gatting; 474 Ian Botham; 494 Allan Lamb; 538 Michael Atherton; 542 Nasser Hussain; 543 Alec Stewart; 568 Darren Gough; 591 Andrew Flintoff; 600 Michael Vaughan, the current captain; acting captain Andrew Strauss is 624 and the most recently capped player, Jon Lewis is 634
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thank you xxx
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Always a pleasure Robbo
 
Didn't one of the players get their number tattooed only to subsequently find out it was the wrong one?

I could be imagining this though.
 
southernblue said:
Didn't one of the players get their number tattooed only to subsequently find out it was the wrong one?

I could be imagining this though.
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Yes he confirmed it went on batting order as another debuts that match, then he was given a different number, but they changed it in the end. His car reg had the same number too. It wasn't until years later they pointed out it should be alphabetical. It was Slater who used to comentate on channel for, the Australian opener.
 
And the numbers are different for the one dayers and 20/20. Much lower as they are a recent format. One dayers that is and not playing cricket for England!
 
Also, to further personalise their shirts, the players have their initials on their sleeve too.

If they're a right hand bat, the Vodafone logo is on the left sleeve so it's seen by the cameras and the initials on the right sleeve, and if left handed, its the opposite way round.

And the sun hats also have the number on.
 
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