BUMBLE AT THE WORLD CUP: England were woeful in their opening two matches... Peter Moores looks to be ageing by the day | Daily Mail Online BUMBLE AT THE WORLD CUP: England were woeful in their opening two matches... Peter Moores looks to be ageing by the day England were beaten in their opening two matches at the World Cup Peter Moores' side were pitiful, according to David 'Bumble' Lloyd David 'Bumble' Lloyd offers his observations from the ICC Cricket World Cup. This time the former England batsman talks wine, New Zealand nightlife and England's woes. Things might not be going well on the field for England but you can’t be miserable in New Zealand. I even ended up in a wine drinking contest, ‘the battle of the bubbles’ in Wellington. England captain Eoin Morgan (left) in discussion with head coach Peter Moores in training This was English sparkling wine up against New Zealand’ s judged by wine masters including Oz Clarke. Would you believe it was a victory for England! A wine called Wyford won the blind tasting from 24 bottles. Might be the only thing England win here… Invited out to John Wright’s farm 20 minutes outside Christchurch.

He’s got 70 cows and a sit-on tractor! New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum (left) talks with England captain Eoin Morgan The former Derbyshire and New Zealand batsman and India coach is now an IPL mentor with Mumbai Indians and did he have some tales to tell. John’s got a fantastic cricket brain and was fascinating on what constitutes a 50-over team…. To walk round Christchurch now is an eerie experience. I went to the memorial service for the victims of the earthquake exactly four years ago that devastated this beautiful city and it was very moving to see people, arms round each other, who had obviously lost loved ones. You just cannot get your bearings in the city centre. There are portacabins set up as shops and even banks. It will clearly take a long time for this place to get back up on its feet. England stumble on and they were quite pitiful to watch in their opening two matches. Having been there as coach I watch Peter Moores closely and he looks to be ageing by the day. England coach Moores looks to be ageing by the day according to David 'Bumble' Llloyd His biggest disappointment will be that England just didn’t compete against Australia and New Zealand.

You feel powerless and shell-shocked in Moores position… Went out for a beer with two of my local co-commentators Ian Smith and Simon Doull to what they said was a quiet spot in Wellington. It was called the Bangalore Polo Club and I’ve never been anywhere like it. Lively is not the word. It was full of bowls of monkey nuts and their party piece is for everyone to eat them, throw the shells on the floor and then the pigeons come in to eat them all up. I made my excuses and left…. New Zealand were all over England like a cheap suit and Brendon McCullum is undoubtedly the best captain in world cricket. New Zealand captain McCullum is undoubtedly the best captain in world cricket, according to Bumble He doesn’t do funky fields. He just knows where to put the fielders for every batsman. And when he had done that and bundled England out he went after them as if he had a train to catch. They are serious contenders but how will they go against Australia?

David Lloyd: Start the car, tweet the Twitter and play the game | The Independent David Lloyd: Start the car, tweet the Twitter and play the game 'Bumble' is buzzing with Twenty20 fervour but the traditions of the game, and the pub, are paramount Saturday 22 May 2010 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online About half a century ago, long before he was Bumble, David Lloyd received the best advice he has ever had. "It came from me dad, who was a Methodist lay preacher," he said. "I wouldn't say he was a God-botherer but he was very religious and never had a drink. If me mother made a sherry trifle at Christmas she had to make one separate because he wouldn't touch it. Anyway, he just said, 'Be yourself, in everything you do, be yourself'." And so he has. In a lifetime of cricket he has been nothing but himself. What a self it has been, too: warm, engaging, daft, outspoken, emotional. His career, famously, has embraced being player, umpire, coach and commentator-pundit, all done at the highest level.

If he won only nine Test caps as a player, he would have won 109 as a commentator. Oh, and tweeter in chief. He has more followers on the social networking site, Twitter, than England have South Africans in their team. It has given him an entirely new audience to hang on to his every word. As with all he does, he has adopted this phenomenon with a zeal which appears to be wholly reciprocated. So that, for instance, he kept up a running update of scores during England's win in the World Twenty20 in Barbados last Sunday between, and probably during, his TV commentary stints. Before the toss, the world was informed: "Groundsman says bit drier than normal not as much pace." Or during England's rampant chase: "Pietersen out, 118-2." By the following day he was chronicling his troubled journey home and by Thursday night, having got there, that "some bastard is pinching the cushions from the pub". All this is followed by 68,148 people and counting. Bumble likes pubs, probably as much as he likes cricket, and he still adores that after all these years.

He has two locals, one round the corner from home in Cheshire, one a train ride away in the heart of Manchester. He likes to arrive at around 5.30pm, have a chat and a pint and then push off home. Early doors, he calls it. "I am a massive protector of the British pub," he said. "Too many of them are going to the wall, but it's a place of conversation and a good sup. I don't do music and bandits, just conversation, a good sup, see you tomorrow." Not much of the conversation revolves round cricket, for he is aware that you can have too much of a good thing. He and his pals in one of the boozers formed themselves into a quasi-regiment in which they call themselves military nicknames and are always on manoeuvres – Group Captain Clarke, the Brigadier, 34 Regular and his favourite, Private Macca of Bulgaria and his Failed Bulgarian Property Empire. "They know I'm involved in cricket but they don't give me any hassle," he said. "They've not much idea what's going on at the best of times about anything.

This bloke, Macca, he bought one or two properties in Bulgaria and left them with an agent to rent. "For two years he never saw a penny so he went over on spec and finds there's people been living there for two years. He had to get them out, and then it needed refurbishing, of course. Then he met some bloke in a pub who said he could do the job, it was either five grand or 10 grand, and he said he could bring the stuff round, no sweat. He has never seen the bloke from that day to this." This is all related with that effervescent glee that has become so familiar on the airwaves these past two decades. He was an irregular on Test Match Special for years (he is generous in his thanks to its former producer, Peter Baxter) and since he resigned as England coach in 1999 he has been the knockabout act on Sky, the comic to all those straight-men former England captains. The new book he has out – Private Macca's tale is there in all its glory - is a paean to cricket and pubs and laddishness and gentle grumpiness.

It takes its title – The World According To Bumble: Start The Car – from his best-loved catchphrase. It is an amiable ramble around the lanes of his life. But they all lead back to cricket eventually, as they always have. There is a serious man of cricket here, the one who is David Lloyd and not Bumble. He was in his element during the World Twenty20 in the West Indies and despite an unfamiliar and occasionally perplexing production crew, he managed to avoid letting the joins show. The short game suits his style, but do not run away with the notion that he is totally bewitched. "I have been going to Twenty20 since 2003 and don't confuse it with cricket," he said. "Twenty20 is a shoot-out, sheer entertainment played with cricket equipment, and it's not that serious. You don't pull anybody to bits. "But the fielding is out of sight and teams do get exposed, which is great fun. I do worry about Test cricket because if you look at the sub-continent the hub of the game is geared towards the Indian Premier League which, looking from the outside in, has got massive problems.

"You hear all sorts of stories about the administration, about the finance from players and the coaches. It's easy street. Coaches want to run it properly and do warm-ups, and a section of players say we don't do that and I think that has showed through in the World Twenty20. One, they weren't fit; two, they were fat, and they ain't going to survive. What really saddens me is the massive rumours about irregularities. The ACU [Anti-Corruption Unit] isn't involved in IPL and it's open to abuse." His view on Twenty20, his belief that Test cricket remains not only the acme of the game but also that to which players aspire, is the serious David Lloyd coming through. He recognises that England played authentically good cricket in the Caribbean to grab their T20 glory and that the imminent Test series against Bangladesh may have its detractors. "It's not a Test match, it's a mismatch but it fits in with the ICC two-year programme, which probably needs a bit of tweaking," he said. "There are all sorts of things you can do but they're not winning, although people would argue that New Zealand went 45 Test matches before they won, so...

I have no answer to it, other than that the game needs strong administration and doesn't deserve or need to be bullied by certain countries because Test-match cricket is what the players want." He has enjoyed all his roles in the game, though playing it can never be replaced. Perhaps that is why, when his home-town club of Accrington came calling, he was only too eager to help. He had not lost his touch, and last summer he hit the winning runs to clinch the Lancashire League title, "although I only got four". His favourite moment came earlier in the season when he made top score on a sticky dog, hit a bowler over the ropes and asked him what it was like to be hit for six by a pensioner. After finishing as a professional player, Bumble presently became an umpire. He loved it but looks back now on it as a lost age. The umpire was the boss back then. Not now. Umpires, he believes, have to try to appease the players. "You wouldn't have dared stand out of line when Syd Buller and Charlie Elliott were umpiring," he said. "I really would like cricket to get back to total respect for umpires. There is too much growling.

I'm an advocate of yellow and red cards in cricket. Then everybody on the grounds knows what's gone on if anybody has stepped out of line. It would be like Trident, such a deterrent that you'd never get any trouble." One of the great growlers is Stuart Broad, on whom Bumble gazes with a combination of opprobrium and laughter. Young Stuart of the choir-boy face and gangster temper receives a mention in the book. "I've done a bit on the world's great ranters. Of course, Adolf Hitler was number one, then you move on to Alex Ferguson, Wayne Rooney and now Stuart, of course. He usually throws a rant when the umpire says not out when he's bowling or out when he's batting. He's coming along nicely, moving up the ratings of the world's great ranters." Bumble never stops. His next role is to record a part in a play to be staged in Scarborough this summer about a chap called in from Yorkshire League cricket to play for the county in Twenty20 cricket. It came from meeting one of his pals, John Henshaw, over a pint, another reason for saving the British pub. "I absolutely love the game," he said.

"I think the game is fantastic. It's what you were brought up to do, it was what I wanted to do from the age of 15, and so you pinch yourself now at 63 that you're still involved. There are a lot of things that are wrong that need putting right but equally there are a lot of things that are right." Like Bumble. David Lloyd will be commentating for Sky Sports during England's summer of cricket, starting with the First Test v Bangladesh at Lord's from 10am on Thursday, exclusively live on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports HD 1 Life and times David Lloyd | England Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo 1966 - 1985 Profile David Lloyd was an unlucky cricketer. Many of his admirers - and probably he himself - were disappointed that he did not achieve more. A talented allrounder, and especially a brilliant strokemaker, he was very much, and proudly, a man of what Neville Cardus called the Lancashire hinterland (Accrington). He promised to - and almost did - reach the top; but remained calmly cheerful and humorous despite his setbacks.

In short, in his Second Test- against India in 1974- he scored a splendidly fluent 214 not out. That alone ensured his selection for the following winter's tour of Australia where, in a side routed by the `heart-line' attack of Lillee and Thomson, he was effectively shocked and shattered out of Test cricket. Like several other capable and loyal professionals of his period, he took on the captaincy of his county - which he had never sought - out of loyalty. In a term of office from 1973 to 1977 he led the county to three Gillette finals, one of which they won. As a captain, his natural modesty probably caused him to use his left-arm slow bowling much less than he might have done. For many years he was one of the bravest and finest close fieldsmen in the world. Always considerate of young players, he helped considerably in the development of, in particular, Graeme Fowler. He returns now to league cricket in his native town; leaving behind many good memories as a man; and figures which, though useful, do less than justice to his ability.

John Arlott (January 1984) Footnote After retiring, Lloyd briefly became a first-class umpire, before turning his hand to radio commentary and then coaching. In 1996 he became England coach and helped with the professionalisation of the side. He was always a ready source for a quote, but his boundless enthusiasm made him enemies in high places, and he departed after the 1999 World Cup. He returned to commentating with Sky Sports. Read More David Lloyd ... former England and Lancashire captain, popular commentator. | Saxton Speakers Bureau Videos Speaker Profile David Lloyd, aka 'Bumble', is a former Lancashire and England cricketer who also coached both sides. He first came to prominence on the iconic Test Match Special radio show before becoming a leading member of the SkySports cricket commentary team, and the face of their Twenty20 coverage. He writes a fortnightly column for the Daily Mail, a blog on the SkySports website, and appears regularly on Cricinfo's cricket podcast. Bumble is a massively popular after-dinner speaker and has also been a star turn in Countdown's Dictionary Corner.

David Lloyd travels from United Kingdom Topics David 'Bumble' Lloyd - 50 not out: From the 'pit of hate' as a player, to umpire, England coach and now the unmistakable voice of cricket... | Daily Mail Online comments David Lloyd sat in the pavilion at an Old Trafford ground which has changed beyond recognition since he first set foot in it and reflected on how it all began. ‘When you start, your ambition is to play international cricket and your stepping stone is county cricket. So then you work unbelievably hard to try to get better than the rest,’ said the man universally known as Bumble. ‘The dressing room toughened you up — and it was tough. But the seasoned senior professionals were absolutely brilliant. It was like having another father. They would knock you down but they would pick you up as well. They would discipline you but encourage you and it felt like being in the army. David Lloyd pictured at his second home Old Trafford 50 years on from beginning his professional career SO, WHY IS HE CALLED BUMBLE? In a Michael Bentine children’s show based on characters called The Bumblies from the Planet Bumble, the main character had a very big nose!

‘I never did national service but it was that sort of regime. The senior players changed upstairs while the juniors were downstairs in what was called the dogs’ home. We had to knock on the seniors’ door to go in even if we were in the team! It was a time I was moulded as a player and as a bloke.’ Bumble is back at his second home 50 years after he took, at 18, the first tentative steps in a professional career that has taken in playing, umpiring, coaching and, most vividly, talking about a game he still loves passionately. One of the most highly regarded — and respected — figures in world cricket is approaching the Ashes celebrating a unique milestone as surely the most versatile and widely experienced man the game has seen. Bumble, simply, is a national treasure as he raises his bat for a very special half-century. ‘I had massive ambition when I were a lad,’ said Bumble as he remembered those first matches as a somewhat stodgy left-handed batsman in 1965.

‘I came from a terraced house in Accrington with an outside toilet and it was like Eric Burdon and The Animals — “We’ve got to get out of this place”. Well, that were me. After spells as a player, umpire and coach, 'Bumble' is most renowned for his exuberant commentary Lloyd remains a valuable asset in Sky Sports' commentary team even at the age of 68 ‘We had no money but I got unbelievable support from my parents and I would go to Manchester from Accrington for matches on a double decker bus. First thing I did was step on the platform and put my cricket bag in the space for luggage. There was no question of anyone nicking it. But when I wanted to get rid of my lawnmower the other week I just left it outside our house and it was gone. ‘There was little to do after the war so you would get good crowds and great barrackers. There was Norman the postman and a bloke with a huge head called Ken. They would just shout from start to finish! It was known as the pit of hate.

‘I was a bit of a blocker to start with and I’d get “You’ll never die of a stroke!” and when my lad Graham started he got it as well — “You’ll never be as good as your father”. Well he were twice as good as me, to be honest. ‘But the supporters were good mates to the players. They formed a society called the Lancashire p*** pots and each year a player had to be president. His sole job was to get complimentary tickets for this lot who would then shout and barrack all day long. ‘At the end of the year you were presented with a chamber pot and at the bottom of it was a white rose so you would always be p****** on Yorkshire. We were on the circuit and we had a ball. We worked hard and played really hard. That was handed down by the senior players.’ RELATED ARTICLES 75 shares Lloyd pictured in his Lancashire county attire at Old Trafford in April 1973 Lloyd and Cowdrey open the batting at Perth in the 1974-75 Ashes (left) before he turned coach (right) He went on to have a playing career of which he could be proud.

‘I played for England and I got a Test double hundred and a one-day century, so I fulfilled a lot of that ambition as a player. I’ll never forget the one-day hundred. I got 116 not out at Trent Bridge against Pakistan and we got 250. Tony Greig, who was fantastic to play with, said “We’re out of sight here. They’ll get nowhere near this”. They knocked them off with about 10 overs to spare!’ But retirement brought uncertainty. ‘I was like a fish out of water when I finished at 36. I tried my hand at selling double-glazing and I worked for a brewery. I was hopeless. I needed to get back into cricket and I found myself, having retired, going back to Old Trafford. Well, you can’t keep wandering into the dressing room in your suit. It’s not your domain anymore.’ Getting back into the game came as an umpire. ‘I tended to keep the game going forward but I wasn’t like Ray Julian, who I had a wonderful regard for and loved standing with.

He had all the lbws he had given written down in his little black book with a verdict alongside them like ‘absolutely plumb’ or ‘probably missing!’ It was a fabulous job.’ Bumble was back but it was not long before his journey was to take another detour and lead him into the world of coaching where he would again rise to the highest level when taking over the England team. England coach Lloyd talks to fast bowler Darren Gough during a net session at Headingley in 1997 England coach Lloyd with batsman Mike Atherton during practice before a Test in New Zealand in 1997 ‘The National Cricket Association were looking at junior initiatives and needed someone to front their Quick Cricket Programme,’ he recalled. ‘I had taken all my coaching badges while I played and they offered me the job. I had to take it and from there I started doing England age group cricket and took the Under 19s on tour, lads like Andrew Flintoff and Marcus Trescothick. ‘Then I took over a cracking Lancashire team. We couldn’t win the County Championship but we were a real force. We were playing for the Red Rose. ‘When I moved up to international level we were under intense scrutiny.

I remember being in Australia and Dean Jones, who is now a mate of mine, said on the telly “this England team need some fielding practice” after a catch went down. ‘So I went straight into his commentary box and said “Just to let you know, before you arrived here, we did an hour-and-a-half fielding and yesterday we did three hours”. I was always protecting the players. ‘I would get letters of complaint from members of the public and if I thought what they were saying was unfair I would ring them up. I’d say “David Lloyd here, England coach. I’d just like to chat with you about what you’ve said about our team”. By the time we were finished they’d usually end up as my best mate.’ Lloyd And David Graveney looking worried in 1997 (left) while Graham Hick wrestles the coach (right) Bumble was ahead of his time as a coach, advocating central contracts and pioneering video analysis. In Pakistan in late 1997 ahead of England’s tour of the Caribbean, he turned up in Lahore complete with a clunky camcorder, recording the West Indies batsmen himself to show his team.

‘I was emotional as a coach but I wanted to win. I would sometimes look at the opposition and secretly think “Christ, they’re better than us” but I couldn’t let the players see that I thought that. ‘We had a good team, mind, but the problem was they were county players playing for England. They’d turn up for England having played a full round of county matches and faced teams who were preparing solely for the Test. ‘We’d even give the opposition the choice of balls! It was ludicrous. We were “After you Claude”. Stiff upper lip. I said to Ian MacLaurin once — and he were great, it was a pleasure to be sacked by Lord MacLaurin — “Listen, we’re up against South Africa here and they’re a tough outfit. If they come at us we’re going straight back at them”. He just said to me “Carry on” and walked away.’ It was Bumble’s desire to scrap hard for England which landed him in hot water over his infamous ‘We flippin’ murdered em’ outburst after a draw against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo in 1996.

‘In football-speak what I was saying was that we had bombarded their goal and hit the bar three times but somehow it ended up 0-0. We flippin’ murdered them and they know it. But what I did regret was that it caused offence to Zimbabweans so I apologised for that. ‘I did a collection for Eddo Brandes when he did a charity thing so that put the record straight.’ The end for Bumble came, as it does for so many, after a dismal World Cup for England in 1999 but he was far from finished. For it was then that he moved full-time into arguably the field of the game that has suited him best, that has made him a legend of cricket and a household nickname. Commentary. ‘Test Match Special gave me a fantastic opportunity to get into broadcasting through Peter Baxter and that was a riot from start to finish, a hoot.

Bumble is fit as a fiddle and showing no signs of slowing down even at 68 years of age BBC Test Match Special commentators (left to right) Henry Blofeld, Peter Baxter and Lloyd in 1995 ‘You’d sit and listen, particularly to Fred Trueman who, with Bill Lawry, was my broadcasting hero. Bill is getting on for 80 but when he gets excited he’ll still stand up and flip his chair back in the box. Brilliant.’ Bumble moved on to Sky Sports where he manages to combine analysis of the game befitting a former national coach with that sense of fun and excitement that makes him one of the very best in his business. ‘It’s very natural for me to combine fun with the serious side of the game. If I get a sense of a lull I’ll have a look at what we can find in the crowd. I’ve just hit on the ear-pieces and I love talking to people watching the game. ‘One of my favourites is if I see a couple and I’ll say to her “Have you come with your father?” That always gets a bit of a chuckle. It’s a natural thing for me.

If there are 40 runs to win off 25 balls then you ain’t going into the crowd! It’s full on, then. ‘I reckon now after 50 years I’ve got the hang of it and I know a bit about it. I’m active on social media and carpenters and solicitors are telling me about cricket. ‘I feel like saying “I’ll preach to you about dovetail joints and litigation if you want”. But I still love it as much as ever.’ Bumble is associated with fun but he has a keen interest in the health of cricket and is not afraid to speak out about what he perceives as threats to it. ‘There are some things that worry me and principal among them is corruption. It is being policed and I hope they’re winning the battle but there are still so many rumours flying about. Some players are clearly not clean. The IPL is a fabulous spectacle but it’s tainted and there’s no getting away from that. It’s tainted by rumour, conjecture and by unscrupulous administrators. ‘That’s a sadness.

I loved working at the IPL and it was fantastic entertainment but it’s clearly a money vehicle for the players and owners and everything else is incidental.’ It is in television broadcasting and more specifically commentating that Bumble has excelled Bumble with Nasser Hussain and Ian Ward during a link for Sky Sports during the recent New Zealand series So, is there anything he would have changed in his rich career? ‘I’d like to have been a bit better as a player. But that’s what I was given and I did all right. After 50 years I’m coming to the end of what I do and that end is not too far away. Richie Benaud was still going into his 80s but I know that’s not for me.’ Hang on. What’s this. Surely Bumble is not hinting at retirement? He is as fit as a fiddle at 68 and still at the peak of his powers. Surely we can look forward to many more years with him enriching our enjoyment of cricket? ‘I want to do other things. I want to go on a canal boat and take a camper van around Scotland. I want to take the St Bees to Robin Hood’s Bay walk which takes three weeks.

‘I still want to ride a horse, too, and I don’t want to be too old to do these things. I have no ambition to go on too long. There will come a time when that’s it.’ Enjoy him while you can. Garry Sobers: Simply my all-time favourite cricketer. I would even pay to watch him play golf. Viv Richards: Great presence, fearless, destructive. An all-time great. Brian Lara: An entertainer. Left you gasping at his strokeplay. Kevin Pietersen: Best England batsman I have seen. Got you on the edge of your seat with devastating innings. Javed Miandad: Pakistan captain was a street-fighter with a glorious touch. FIVE FAVOURITE TESTS INDIA V ENGLAND IN CHENNAI 2008 We had gone back to India after the Mumbai bombings and Sachin Tendulkar won the Test for his side. Very emotional. THE WHOLE OF THE 2005 SERIES Can’t pick out just one. They were five classics.

Steve Harmison dismisses Michael Kasprowicz at Edgbaston in 2005 to give England a famous two-run win ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA AT CARDIFF IN 2009 Jimmy Anderson and Monty Panesar hanging on to prove that a draw can be just as exciting as a win. ENGLAND V PAKISTAN AT THE OVAL 2006 The umpires said Pakistan were ball tampering so they wouldn’t play on. Umpire Darrell Hair and Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq discuss ball tampering at The Oval in 2006 ENGLAND V WEST INDIES AT OLD TRAFFORD 1976 When Brian Close and John Edrich showed immense courage being battered by great fast bowlers. CRICKET PLAYERS & NICKNAMES ... endless!

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(Bad Attitude) Shivnarine Chanderpaul ï¿½ Tiger Ian Chappell ï¿½ Chapelli Ewen Chatfield ï¿½ Chats, Farmer (Mer) or The Naenae Express Stuart Clark ï¿½ Sarfraz, Stu Michael Clarke ï¿½ Pup Paul Collingwood ï¿½ Nice Ginger, Colly Herbie Collins ï¿½ Horseshoe Corey Collymore ï¿½ Screw Jeremy Coney ï¿½ Mantis Colin Cowdrey ï¿½ Kipper Jeff Crowe ï¿½ Chopper Martin Crowe ï¿½ Hogan D Adam Dale ï¿½ Chipper Joe Darling ï¿½ Paddy Phillip DeFreitas ï¿½ Half-Chocolate, Daffy Aravinda de Silva ï¿½ Mad Max Fanie de Villiers ï¿½ Vinnige Fanie ("Fast Fanie" in Afrikaans) Kapil Dev ï¿½ The Haryana Express Mahendra Singh Dhoni ï¿½ Mahi Graham Dilley ï¿½ Pica Boeta Dippenaar ï¿½ Dipps Allan Donald ï¿½ White Lightning Brett

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Douglas ï¿½ Johnny Won't Hit Today Rahul Dravid ï¿½ Jammy, The Wall E Bruce Edgar ï¿½ Bootsy F Damien Fleming ï¿½ Flemo Stephen Fleming ï¿½ Flange Duncan Fletcher ï¿½ Fletch Keith Fletcher ï¿½ The Gnome of Essex Andrew Flintoff ï¿½ Freddy, Twiggy, Fred, family man James Foster ï¿½ The Child Graeme Fowler ï¿½ Foxy C. B. Fry ï¿½ Lord Oxford, Charles III, Almighty G Saurav Ganguly ï¿½ Maharaj, Prince of Calcutta, Dada, Bengal Tiger Joel Garner ï¿½ Big Bird Sunil Gavaskar ï¿½ Sunny, The Little Master Chris Gayle ï¿½ Cramps, Crampy Herschelle Gibbs ï¿½ Scooter, The Sack Man Adam Gilchrist ï¿½ Churchy, Gilly, The Demolition Man Ashley Giles ï¿½ Ash, the King of Spain Jason Gillespie ï¿½ Dizzy Darren Gough ï¿½ Rhino, Goughy, the Dazzler, Dancing Darren E.

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¿½ Boof, Shrek Henry Leveson-Gower ï¿½ Shrimp Dennis Lillee ï¿½ D.K., F.O.T (F*****g Old Tart) Denis Lindsay ï¿½ Sporty Clive Lloyd ï¿½ Super Cat David Lloyd ï¿½ Bumble Martin Love ï¿½ Lovey, Pumper M Charles Macartney ï¿½ Governor-General Stuart MacGill ï¿½ Stuey, Magilla Ken Mackay ï¿½ Slasher Jimmy Maher ï¿½ Mahbo Ashley Mallett ï¿½ Rowdy Sanjay Manjrekar ï¿½ Sanj Vijay Manjrekar ï¿½ The Wanderer Charles Marriott ï¿½ Father Marriott Geoff Marsh ï¿½ Swampy Rod Marsh ï¿½ Iron Gloves, Bacchus Xavier Marshall ï¿½ X, Mad Max Frederick Martin ï¿½ Nutty Damien Martyn ï¿½ Marto Lloyd Mash ï¿½ Monster, Bangers (in the UK) Greg Matthews ï¿½ Mo Glenn McGrath ï¿½ Pigeon Graham McKenzie ï¿½ Garth Craig McMillan ï¿½

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½ Jackie Ken Rutherford ï¿½ Ruds or Rudder S Mohammed Sami ï¿½ Salami, The Karachi Express Virender Sehwag ï¿½ Veeru, New Tendulkar Paul Sheahan ï¿½ Timbers Bob Simpson ï¿½ Simmo Navjot Singh Sidhu ï¿½ Sherry, Jonty Singh, Sixer Sidhu Matthew Sinclair ï¿½ Skippy Harbhajan Singh ï¿½ The Turbanator, Bhajji (by team-mates) Yuvraj Singh ï¿½ Yuvi Michael Slater ï¿½ Slats Peter Sleep ï¿½ Sounda Sir Aubrey Smith ï¿½ Round the Corner Ian Smith ï¿½ Stockley Graeme Smith ï¿½ Biff Jim Smith ï¿½ Big Jim Martin Snedden ï¿½ Sneds Fred Spofforth ï¿½ Demon Javagal Srinath ï¿½ Babu Keith Stackpole ï¿½ Stacky Brian Statham ï¿½ George Edward Stevens ï¿½ Lumpy Alec Stewart ï¿½ Wizenedone, Gaffer Andrew Strauss ï¿½ Straussy Pi

eter Strydom ï¿½ Striker Scott Styris ï¿½ Pig Andrew Symonds ï¿½ Symo, Roy, Golden Bollocks T Mark Taylor ï¿½ Tubby Sachin Tendulkar ï¿½ Tendiya, Little Master, The Master Blaster, Slashin Sachin Alan Thomson ï¿½ Froggie Jeff Thomson ï¿½ Two-up Graham Thorpe ï¿½ The Shagger Ernie Toshack ï¿½ The Dark Prince Marcus Trescothick ï¿½ Banger, Tresco Fred Trueman ï¿½ Fiery Fred Hugh Trumble ï¿½ Little Eva Daryl Tuffey ï¿½ Hightower Phil Tufnell ï¿½ The Cat, Tuffers Charlie Turner ï¿½ Terror Frank Tyson ï¿½ Typhoon U Shaun Udal ï¿½ Shaggy Derek Underwood ï¿½ Deadly V Michael Vaughan ï¿½ Virgil, Vaughny Dilip Vengsarkar ï¿½ Colonel Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan ï¿½ Venkat Daniel Vettori ï¿½ Lucas, Danny Lou Vincent ï¿

½ Flusher Maharajkumar of Vizianagram ï¿½ Vizzy W Max Walker ï¿½ Tangles Doug Walters ï¿½ Freddie, Bikki Shane Warne ï¿½ Warney, Hollywood, The Sheikh of Tweak Shane Watson ï¿½ Watto Steve Waugh ï¿½ Tugga, Iceman Mark Waugh ï¿½ Junior, Afghanistan (The forgotten waugh) Cameron White ï¿½ Carn Craig White ï¿½ Chalky Jeff Wilson ï¿½ Goldie Paul Wilson ï¿½ Blocker Matthew Windows ï¿½ Steamy Paul Wiseman ï¿½ Whizz Bill Woodfull ï¿½ The Rock John Wright ï¿½ Shake Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis ï¿½ The Two W's, The Sultans of Reverse Swing Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell ï¿½ The Three W's XYZ When Tommo brought a tear to Bumble's eye - Telegraph When Tommo brought a tear to Bumble's eye Top bloke all round: David Lloyd By Robert Philip In pics: England squad | Australia squad As a player, he was described by John Ar

lott as being 'one of the bravest and finest close fieldsmen in the world and a brilliant stroke-maker', averaging 42.46 in his brief international career of nine Tests.

As a coach, his outspokenness caused much spluttering and spilled gin within the confines of Lord's but he was instrumental in the introduction of central contracts which have transformed England from whipping boys into Ashes winners. As a broadcaster, he has just been voted 'Most Popular Cricket Commentator of the Year' by the readers of Wisden magazine. Over the coming months he will bring his own unique brand of pithy northern humour to the Sky Sports coverage of the Ashes series. But you can best judge a man by the loyalty and affection he inspires in his friends. Mention his name to Ian Botham, Bob Willis, Mike Atherton or just about anyone in the world of cricket from Australia to Antigua and the reaction will be the same. "Bumble? Top bloke…" Having spent a few hours in David Lloyd's company (the nickname, incidentally, came from his resemblance to one of Michael Bentine's friendly little aliens in his children's TV series The Bumblies) I can think of no more apposite portrait; top bloke, indeed.

Lloyd's fascination with the Ashes dates back to 1958 when, as an 11-year-old, he followed the fortunes of Colin Cowdrey and co Down Under on the wireless of the family home in Water Street, Accrington. "Although my first love was football, as I grew older I knew I'd never be good enough to become a professional," recalls Bumble. "As a lad, I followed every Ashes series so I saw cricket as my escape. Remember the old Animals song, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place?, well, cricket was my way out of Water Street. My parents were hard-working, lovely people, but it was a tough upbringing." When Lloyd did get out of the place, he found himself in an even tougher neighbourhood at the WACA, Perth, in December 1974 when he made his Ashes debut in the second Test.

Pummelled into defeat by the fearsome bowling of Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee in the opening match which Lloyd missed through injury, England restored Bumble as opener and he quickly found himself joined at the wicket by the 42-year-old Cowdrey, who had been sitting with his feet up at home when he received an SOS (Save Our Skins) from the England selectors. With Thomson firing down leather rockets, Lloyd took the veteran aside and muttered: "You stay up that end against Max Walker because it's all going off down this end." A gesture Cowdrey would later describe "as the most generous act I have ever known in cricket". "Don't forget, they were eight-ball overs in those days," adds Lloyd, "and five of them were bouncers so there were only three balls you could have a dart at. You'd be in there for an hour and then you'd glance up at the scoreboard to see you'd made six." After making a heroic 49 in his first knock, Lloyd was making dogged progress in the second innings when Thomson caught him 'full on' in the most tender part of the anatomy.

"We wore little pink plastic boxes at the time which were totally unsuitable for the job," he explained. "It cracked open and what I had inside fired through before the box snapped shut again like a guillotine coming down. Even after 32 years, I lose my voice just thinking about it. There's retired hurt and then there's retired hurt…" Mike Denness and Tony Greig batted through to the end of day's play, thereby allowing Lloyd to nurse his injured 'pride', but there was more embarrassment to come later that night. "As the junior members of the two teams, Tommo and I were commanded to attend a movie premiere of Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, a sentiment very close to my own heart, I have to say. I was still feeling a bit tender down under so Tommo had to carry me into the cinema like a sack of coal." Lloyd averaged a defiant 26 during the 'Lillee-Thomson Series' before a neck injury sustained while fielding not only prevented him playing in the sixth and final match but brought an end to his Test career. "I was never the same again. But what everyone forgets is that the '74 series was a cracking Ashes.

OK, we lost 4-1, but Australia beat the West Indies of Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd and Gordon Greenidge 5-1 the following winter. We didn't have anything to frighten Australia with, it was pea-shooters against heavy artillery. "Australia were a great, great team. They had the best captain I've ever known in Greg Chappell – what a leader of men; uncompromising on the field but totally fair. I'd known Greg and a number of others from my time in the Lancashire League and they were honest as the day's long, thoroughly nice blokes who'd give you heaps and take heaps as well. That's why I always shared a beer with them in the Aussie dressing room after each day's play." Lloyd did make a fleeting return to international cricket in 1980 when, as he puts it: "Beefy was appointed captain for about three weeks. I'd got hundreds in the Benson & Hedges zonal matches against the might of Minor Counties North and Scotland.

Everyone else's matches had been rained off – it was a rotten May that year – and with the one-day series against the West Indies coming up I thought, 'Bloody 'ell, they're going to pick me'. What can I say? Malcolm Marshall breaks my arm and Beefy being Beefy says, 'You let me down there, Bumble...' To which I replied, 'Well, you should never have picked me in the first place." When his playing career finally finished in 1983, Lloyd became an umpire before serving as England coach from 1996-99, since when he has become an incisive yet always wryly amusing commentator. So, how does he rate England's chances in the 2006-7 Ashes series? "First of all, if it's half as good as last summer's Ashes it will be a classic. I don't believe the propaganda coming out of Australia that England have everything to lose. Ricky Ponting has put it about that all the pressure is on England but I think it's on Australia – 100 per cent.

"Playing in front of their own people in their own back yard, all those great players – Ponting, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden – don't want to be members of a team which loses two Ashes series in a row. The last series will be remembered a century from now and the Aussies will still be hurting that they're the ones who will forever be remembered as the losers." Llloyd admits, however, that Marcus Trescothick's return to these shores will not help England's cause when the phoney war ends on Thursday with the start of the first Test. "It was staggering news and let's be honest here, a massive blow. Everybody thought that he was back on track and looking forward to touring Australia. I am surprised that Marcus was allowed to get so far but obviously the medical people thought he was right. "The England dressing room will have been left absolutely reeling at this news and the situation calls for Andrew Flintoff to get hold of the team to say 'we've managed without Trescothick before so let's get down to business'. I think Alastair Cook will move up to open.

Before this all happened, I thought that maybe Ian Bell or Paul Collingwood wouldn't play in the first Test. But now damage limitation means that they will probably move up one in the order with Cook opening the batting." Given Warne's exploits on English wickets last summer, Lloyd believes it would make good sense for the Australians to prepare spinning pitches this time round. "We couldn't cope with Warne last time but we've got a flippin' trump card in Monty [Panesar]. He is bloody good, a great talent. He looks ungainly in the field; he's painting by numbers as a fieldsman and a Rembrandt with a ball in his hand. He took eight wickets against Pakistan at Old Trafford in July and who did he get out? Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf. That'll do for me. "Ricky Ponting says they're going to target Monty, I hope he does because Monty will bowl them out no bother. He's a match winner. If England bat first and make 450, it should be over to you, Monty.

He's also a lovely level-headed lad, when I spoke to him before he left for Oz he told me 'Last year I was handing in my university dissertation and this year Ricky Ponting's talking about me'. Sad thing is, he [England coach Duncan Fletcher] ain't going to pick him, is he? I think he'll go for Ashley Giles instead." Whatever the personnel chosen and whatever the outcome, Lloyd will tell it like it is in his own inimitable manner which will ensure that no one will be spared his waspish wit. Not even those nearest and dearest to him can escape his withering comments when he deems it justified. Take his wife, Diana, who works at Old Trafford where Bumble was captain of Lancashire for many a long year. "Cricket daft, she is. She's even got her own bat and pads. She's only got buckles on them, not those strap around things. She keeps them in the back of the car in case someone might be a man short and she's called upon to play." Is she good? "Diana? She's roobish, absolute roobish…!" Aye, he's a top bloke our Bumble.

South Africa v England: What we learned from Cape Town Test | Cricket News | Sky Sports South Africa v England: What we learned from Cape Town Test Ben Stokes, Temba Bavuma and Hashim Amla top Test talking points By David Currie Last Updated: 10/01/16 6:51am The pick of the action from Cape Town on day five of the second Test So England escaped from the second Test in Cape Town with a draw, an unfathomable prospect when Ben Stokes was in full flow on day two. Stokes cracked a stunning 258 off 198 balls as England amassed a seemingly insurmountable 629-6 declared in their first innings. Indeed it wasn't bettered by South Africa, but Hashim Amla's own double-hundred saw them to within two runs, before the hosts got the better of day five as a thrilling Test ultimately ended in a draw . Here are just some of the thrills and spills seen over the past few days at Newlands...

Double delight Watch Ben Stokes score the second fastest double century in history You couldn't have more contrasting double hundreds than the ones scored by Stokes and Amla in this Test, but both were of supreme quality. Stokes was brutal as he struck the fastest Test 250, smacking a staggering 30 fours and 11 sixes. With England at one stage struggling at 223-5 on the first day, his assault on the second new ball turned the tide in England's favour, before it swept South Africa away on the second morning, as England added 196 in the first session alone. Nasser Hussain analyses changes to Hashim Amla's technique after the South Africa captain rediscovered his form Amla - under an enormous amount of pressure due to his questionable captaincy in that England first innings, and in the midst of a run of only one Test fifty across his last 13 innings - responded with real resilience and character. Scoreboard pressure in the form of 629 England runs didn't deter him, nor did arriving at the crease at 7-1.

He stubbornly set about denying England for 477 balls, notching his fourth Test double-hundred in the process, helping his side to such a position of strength that ultimately they looked the more likely team to win on the fifth day. Amla's exit Hashim Amla steps down as South Africa Test captain halfway through the series It was to prove Amla's final innings as South Africa captain, as shortly after the Test's end, he resigned the captaincy. it was an unexpected move having finally found some form with the bat, and having oh so nearly guided his side to one of the most unlikely victories in Test history, but in truth Amla oft looked lost as South Africa skipper, guiding the supposed No 1 team in the world to just four Test wins in the last 14. Shaun Pollock told Ian Ward that he wasn't surprised by the news that Hashim Amla has stepped down AB de Villiers, a man that South Africa were supposedly keen to look after and reduce the workload of with whispers of a potential Test retirement a week ago, takes over for the final two Tests of the series.

He has at least relinquished the wicketkeeping gloves, and he too found some form with the bat at Newlands, scoring 88 and contributing to a 183-run partnership with Amla. These are encouraging signs for South Africa's deadly double act, as any way back for them in this series will depend on heavily on their form with the bat, regardless of which one of them is captain. Catching costs England England captain Alastair Cook was left frustrated by England's catching It could all have been all so different for England. They dropped Amla four times, on 21, 76, 120, and 201. They weren't their only offences either, England dropped nine catches in total, with De Villiers put down when having only scored five. Had those initial opportunities been taken, a total of 263 runs would have been saved relating to those two batsmen alone, and England would surely by looking at a 2-0 series lead now with two to play.

The Verdict panel discuss Jimmy Anderson’s drop of Hashim Amla on day three at Newlands Instead they escaped with a draw, and what an escape it turned out to be with South Africa first getting to within two of England's mammoth first innings total, before a nervy second effort with the bat saw England stutter to 116-6 at one stage on day five, opening the door for a potential South Africa slog-a-thon run-chase to level the series. That possibility was eventually extinguished with the fading light, but England's sloppiness very nearly cost them a Test from a seemingly invincible position. One plus though is that England created those opportunities with the ball on such a flat pitch, with Steven Finn proving particularly impressive. He and England's fast-bowling fraternity will hope they get more assistance from the surface - and their team-mates - in Johannesburg. Momentous milestones Jonny Bairstow told Ian Ward that it was a very emotional day for him after scoring his maiden Test hundred. Arguably the Test's most memorable moments didn't belong to either Stokes or Amla despite their combined 459 runs. Call us when you've scored 1,000 lads !

The two centuries scores by Jonny Bairstow and Temba Bavuma were of particular emotional and historic significance. Bairstow has taken 22 Tests to score his maiden century in an up and down international career since notching his previous highest score of 95 against the same opposition at Lord's three and a half years ago. The tension was palpable as he navigated his way through the nervous nineties again, and the emotion obvious when he reached his hundred, bending over backwards in his celebration and looking to the heavens in tribute to his late father David - a former Yorkshire and England cricketer - sadly having died in 1998. Temba Buvuma said he was full of emotion after he scored his first Test century for South Africa. Bavuma's brilliance meanwhile was of huge historical significance, as he became the first black African to score a Test century for South Africa. It was the flourish and flair with which he did it too, off 148 balls, scoring 16 fours, in the face of a fierce and vocal England attack, which made it even more impressive.

Bumble's Barmy Army David 'Bumble' Lloyd infiltrated the Barmy Army on day two of the Cape Town Test. What did Bumble get up to in this Test? A fair bit, as per usual. We found him infiltrating the Barmy Army after Stokes' sensational double-hundred, although the proud Lancastrian found one too many Yorkshiremen for his liking. He awoke a sleeping supporter with the face of a familiar colleague looming large, was scared off by the advances of a female fan and joined in with a Moeen Ali chant or two. David Lloyd has made his way to the groundsmen's shed on day one of the second Test. We also went rollin' with Bumble in the groundsman's shed on day one, as he affectionately named the rollers from little to large, There was the 'James Taylor', the 'Samit Patel' and the more intimidating 'Rob Key'. Bumble found time to answer some of your tweets on day three, and Joe Root even had him doing some of his dirty laundry ! Sadly it all had him feeling a little poorly by day five, so we wish him a speedy recovery and hope we can have some more fun with him in Johannesburg.

Get well soon Bumble! Our coverage of the second Test between South Africa and England from Johannesburg begins at 8am on Sky Sports 2 HD on Thursday, January 14.

Question: Which former England cricket captain was nicknamed Bumble?
Answer: David Lloyd