Longest names :
16 letters :
L Sivaramakrishnan (Ind)
HR Bromley-Davenport (Eng)
15 letters :
S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
KIW Wijegunawardene (SL)
14 letters :
KS Indrajitsinhji (Ind)
MRCN Bandaratilleke (SL)
AK Kuruppurachchi (SL)
GP Wickramasinghe (SL)
AGD Wickramasinghe (SL)
S Christopherson (Eng)
LOB Fleetwood-Smith (Aus)
PS Twentyman-Jones (SAF)
The Sri Lankan Vinothen John was born John Vinothen Bede Jeyarajasingham.
Longest names for each country :
Australia : LOB Fleetwood-Smith (14), excluding hyphenated names, AG Chipperfield (12)
England : HR Bromley-Davenport (16) / S Christopherson (14)
West Indies : AI Kallicharran /CC Passailaigue /IT Shillingford /GC Shillingford (12)
SAF : PS Twentyman-Jones (14); JM Blanckenberg (12)
India : L Sivaramakrishnan (16)
Zim : EZ Matambanadzo (12)
NZ :LA Butterfield (11)
Pak : Ehtesham-ud-Din (13), if considered as a single name. Wajahatullah(12) Wasti is the longest single first name
SL : KIW Wijegunawardene (15)
The longest 'any' name seems to be that of 18 letters, in the name of Asoka de Silva, whose complete name reads Ellawalakankanamge Asoka Ranjit De Silva.
There are quite a few three letter surnames like Sen, Pai, Guy and many Roys and Alis which I haven't tried to list.
The shortest per-word length is 3.67 for Roy Luke Dias.
Roy Dias is also the shortest 'popularly used name' (don't know how to put it in a better way) among cricketers. Among others with 7 letter names are Ajit Pai, Abid Ali, Tim Wall, John Guy, Wes Hall etc.
PS : This stuff, I manually searched & picked up from the list of the names of all test cricketers. So no claims that it is complete or authentic.
I have rambled enough on this subject already, so I'll stop before someone starts flaming
16 letters :
L Sivaramakrishnan (Ind)
HR Bromley-Davenport (Eng)
15 letters :
S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
KIW Wijegunawardene (SL)
14 letters :
KS Indrajitsinhji (Ind)
MRCN Bandaratilleke (SL)
AK Kuruppurachchi (SL)
GP Wickramasinghe (SL)
AGD Wickramasinghe (SL)
S Christopherson (Eng)
LOB Fleetwood-Smith (Aus)
PS Twentyman-Jones (SAF)
The Sri Lankan Vinothen John was born John Vinothen Bede Jeyarajasingham.
Longest names for each country :
Australia : LOB Fleetwood-Smith (14), excluding hyphenated names, AG Chipperfield (12)
England : HR Bromley-Davenport (16) / S Christopherson (14)
West Indies : AI Kallicharran /CC Passailaigue /IT Shillingford /GC Shillingford (12)
SAF : PS Twentyman-Jones (14); JM Blanckenberg (12)
India : L Sivaramakrishnan (16)
Zim : EZ Matambanadzo (12)
NZ :LA Butterfield (11)
Pak : Ehtesham-ud-Din (13), if considered as a single name. Wajahatullah(12) Wasti is the longest single first name
SL : KIW Wijegunawardene (15)
The longest 'any' name seems to be that of 18 letters, in the name of Asoka de Silva, whose complete name reads Ellawalakankanamge Asoka Ranjit De Silva.
There are quite a few three letter surnames like Sen, Pai, Guy and many Roys and Alis which I haven't tried to list.
The shortest per-word length is 3.67 for Roy Luke Dias.
Roy Dias is also the shortest 'popularly used name' (don't know how to put it in a better way) among cricketers. Among others with 7 letter names are Ajit Pai, Abid Ali, Tim Wall, John Guy, Wes Hall etc.
PS : This stuff, I manually searched & picked up from the list of the names of all test cricketers. So no claims that it is complete or authentic.
I have rambled enough on this subject already, so I'll stop before someone starts flaming
