Here z a long list of Cricketer's Nicknames
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- Zaheer Abbas — Asian Bradman
- Shahid Afridi — Boom Boom Afridi, Lala[13]
- Ajit Agarkar — Bombay Duck, 007 (After seven consecutive ducks for India and is from Bombay)
- Mushtaq Ahmed — Mushy
- Shoaib Akhtar — The Rawalpindi Express[14]
- Wasim Akram — Waz, Sultan of the Swing
- Warwick Armstrong — Big Ship
- Michael Atherton — Captain Grumpy[15]
- Mohammad Ashraful — Ash
- Trevor Bailey — The Boil, Barnacle, Slogger
- Omari Banks — Bankie, Cowheb
- Gareth Batty — Batts, Ronan, Scotty
- Ian Bell — Belly, Boyband, The Shermanator (Shane Warne's sledging)
- Richie Benaud — Diamonds[1]
- Tino Best — The Best, Ntini
- Michael Bevan — Bevvo
- Andrew Bichel — Bic, Andy
- Rosalie Birch — Cheesy
- Travis Birt — Edgar
- Jack Blackham — Black Jack
- Nicky Boje — Bodge
- David Boon — Stumpy, Boonie
- Allan Border — A.B., Captain Grumpy
- Ian Botham — Beefy[13]
- Mark Boucher — Guinness, Billy
- Andrew Caddick — Caddyshack, Wingnut
- Chris Cairns — B.A. (Bad Attitude) Cairnsey
- Upul Chandana — Chicky
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul — Tiger, Shiv
- Ian Chappell — Chapelli
- Ewen Chatfield — Chats, Farmer (Mer) or The Naenae Express
- Stuart Clark — Sarfraz, Stu
- Wayne Clark — Dunny (initials are W.C.)
- Michael Clarke — Pup, Clarkey, Nemo
- Paul Collingwood — Nice Ginger, Colly, Hard Man
- Herbie Collins — Horseshoe
- Corey Collymore — Screw
- Jeremy Coney — Mantis
- Bevan Congdon — Congo
- Alastair Cook — Cooky, Chef
- Mark Cosgrove — Cossy, Baby-Boof (due to similarities in batting-style
- Craig Cumming — Sid (after rugby player Sid Going)
- Adam Dale — Chipper (from Chip and Dale)
- Joe Darling — Paddy
- Heath Davis — Raven (from "stark ravin' mad)
- Phillip DeFreitas — Daffy
- Aravinda de Silva — Mad Max, Ara
- Abraham de Villiers — A.B
- Fanie de Villiers — Vinnige Fanie ("Fast Fanie" in Afrikaans)
- Kapil Dev — The Haryana Hurricane, Paaji
- Ted Dexter — Lord Ted, Malcolm Devon
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni — Mahi[13]
- Graham Dilley — Pica
- Boeta Dippenaar — Dipps, Hendrick
- Rahul Dravid — The Indian Wall, The Wall, The Great Wall of India, Jammy, The LC, Mr. Dependable, Mr. Consistent, Mr. Reliable
- Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji — Duleep, Mr Smith
- Matthew Elliott — Herb[18]
- Sean Ervine — Slug, Siuc
- Damien Fleming — Flemo
- Stephen Fleming — Flange
- Andrew Flintoff — Freddie (with reference to Fred Flintstone), SuperFred, Twiggy, Fred, family man, Mr. InFredible [2], Fredalo
- James Franklin — Jimmy
- C. B. Fry — Lord Oxford, Charles III, Almighty LOL
- Peter Fulton — Two-metre Peter (at 6' 8", Fulton is one of the tallest test players ever)[13]
- Sourav Ganguly — Maharaj, Prince of Calcutta, Dada, Lord Snooty, Bengal Tiger
- Joel Garner — Big Bird
- Mike Gatting — Fat Gatt, Branston, Einstein, Pie
- Sunil Gavaskar — Sunny, The Little Master
- Chris Gayle — Cramps, Crampy, Mr Cool, CG(by Carlton Baugh)
- Herschelle Gibbs — Scooter[13]
- Adam Gilchrist — Church, Gilchurch, Gilly, The Demolition Man
- Ashley Giles — Ash, the King of Spain, Gilo, Wheelie Bin
- Jason Gillespie — Dizzy (after jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie), Gypo
- Graham Gooch — Zap, 'Rugrat'
- Darren Gough — Rhino, Goughy, Dazzler, Dancing Darren
- Asanka Gurusinha — Gura
- Brad Haddin — BJ, Harry, Guildo
- Richard Hadlee — Paddles
- Andrew Hall — Brosh, Merv, Hally
- Harbhajan Singh —The Turbanator, Bhajji, (by team-mates) Spin Master
- Stephen Harmison — Harmy (or Harmi), Tinker, GBH (Grievous Bodily Harmison to the Barmy Army, home sickness), Gummy (due to absence of wisdom teeth)
- Chris Harris — Harry, Lugs
- Chris Hartley — Hannibal
- Ian Harvey — The 'Freak'
- Shane Harwood — Stickers[18]
- Nathan Hauritz — Horry
- Matthew Hayden — Haydos, Unit, Big Fish [3]
- Nantie Hayward — Wayward Hayward
- George Headley — Atlas, Black Bradman
- Ian Healy — Heals
- Brad Hodge — Hodgey, Dodgeball
- Brad Hogg— George, Hoggy, The Postman
- Matthew Hoggard — Hoggy, Shrek, Smudger, Th'Hoggster, The Hogg
- Michael Holding — Whispering Death, Mikey (Sky Sports nickname)
- Bob Holland — Dutchy
- A N Hornby — Monkey
- James Hopes — Hopesy, Jimbo, Catfish[18]
- Merv Hughes — Fruitfly, Swerve, Swerv'n Merv'n
- Simon Hughes — Yozzer
- Nasser Hussain — Nass (by the commentators), poppadom fingers (due to the amount of broken digits)
- David Hussey — Bomber
- Michael Hussey — Mr Cricket[19], Huss
- Inzamam-ul-Haq — Inzy, The Big Man, The Sultan of Multan, Aaloo (potato)
- Ridley Jacobs — Ras Bell, Riddler
- Phil Jacques — Rolf, Pro
- Sanath Jayasuriya — The Master Blaster, Sana, The Matara Mauler (Matara is his hometown), Sunny(In his Mumbai Indians team)
- Gilbert Jessop — The Croucher
- Mitchell Johnson — Midge
- Andrew Jones — Jed
- Dean Jones — Deano, Legend (nickname he gave to himself).
- Sylvester Joseph — Bouncing
- Ed Joyce — Joycer, Spud
- Geraint Jones — Jones the Gloves according to Wales' Western Mail paper, GoJo
- Simon Jones — Jones the Ball according to Wales' Western Mail paper
- Mohammed Kaif — Kaifu, Kaiff
- Jacques Kallis — Kalahari, Jackes
- Danish Kaneria — Danny boy
- Michael Kasprowicz — Kasper
- Simon Katich — Stiffler, Kat
- Justin Kemp — Daryll (Shane Warne's sledging)
- Robert Key — Bob
- Imran Khan — The Lion of Lahore, The King of Swing, The Lion of Pakistan, Most Favourite son of Pakistan
- Zaheer Khan — Zak
- Michael Klinger — Maxy
- Lance Klusener — Zulu
- Anil Kumble — Jumbo[13]
- Gary Kirsten — Gazza
- Romesh Kaluwitharana — The Little Dynamo, Little Kalu, The Little Dynamite
- Justin Langer — Alf, Alfie (After Australian Rugby League player Allan Langer), Brown Nose Gnome, BNG, Mini Tugga, JL
- Charl Langeveldt — Langes
- Brian Lara — The Prince, The Prince of Port of Spain'
- Gavin Larsen — The Postman[13]
- Bill Lawry — Phantom[13]
- Geoff Lawson — Henry
- VVS Laxman — Very Very Special
- Brett Lee — Bing, Binga, Oswald
- Warren Lees — Wally
- Darren Lehmann — Boof,[18] Shrek
- Henry Leveson-Gower — Shrimp
- Jon Lewis — Lewy
- Charles Macartney — Governor-General
- Stuart MacGill — Stuey, Macca, Magilla
- Ken Mackay — Slasher
- Jimmy Maher — Mahbo[18]
- Khalid Mahmood — The Baby
- Sajid Mahmood — Saj, King
- Shoaib Malik — Terminator
- Lasith Malinga — The Pocket Rocket, Malinga The Slinga[13]
- Ashley Mallett — Rowdy
- Sanjay Manjrekar — Sanj
- Vijay Manjrekar — The Wanderer
- Khaled Mashud — Pilot
- Greg Matthews — Mo
- Glenn McGrath — Pigeon, The Metronome,Ooh Ahh (Glenn McGrath) Millard (Brand of caravan; he lived in a caravan when he first moved to Sydney), Pidge( in his Delhi Daredevils IPL team )
- Graham McKenzie — Garth
- Brian McMillan — Big Mac
- John Morrison — Mystery
- Mashrafe Mortaza — The Narail Express
- Runako Morton — Ronnie
- Muttiah Muralitharan — The Smiling Assassin, Murali, MuMu, The Lord of the Spin, Kandy Man, The Spin Wizard, Muscles
- Saqlain Mushtaq — Saqi, Professor (wears glasses and outsmarts the batsman)
- Andre Nel — Nella; Gunter
- Mfuneko Ngam — Chewey (Chewey'N gam), Black Thunder (Allan Donald is called White Lightning)
- Paul Nixon — Badger, Nico
- Monty Noble — Mary Ann
- Ashley Noffke — Wombat
- Marcus North — Snork
- Makhaya Ntini — Macky; George (Curious George)
- Chris Old — Chilly (from C.Old)
- Kerry O'Keeffe — Skull
- Bill O'Reilly — Tiger
- Thomas Odoyo The Black Botham
- Milford Page — Curly
- Monty Panesar — The Mont-ster, Python, Sardar-Jee, The Sikh of Tweak, Parmesan Tony (anagram), Bow'mont,The Turbanator
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi — Tiger
- Jeetan Patel — Dave
- Irfan Pathan— Chotta Wasim bhai,
- Kevin Pietersen — K.P., Kelvin, Kelv, Kapes, The Big Show, (The) Ego, FIGJAM
- Shaun Pollock — Polly, Ginger, The Nibbler
- Ricky Ponting — Punter, Chinaman, Bhajji's Bunny, Harbhajan's bunny (because of Harbhajan's terrific record against him)
- Ashwell Prince — Ashy P
- Matthew Prior — P. Matthew, MP, The Cheese, 'Cheese', 'Cheesey', 'Mr Cheese', 'Cheesebox'
- Abdul Qadir — Qadu
- Carl Rackemann — Mocca
- Venkatapathy Raju — Muscles
- Denesh Ramdin — Shoppy
- Ravi Rampaul — Frisco Kid
- Mark Ramprakash — Bloodaxe, Ramps
- Ranjitsinhji — Black Prince of Cricketers, the Midsummer night's dream of cricket, Ranji, Smith
- Derek Randall — Arkle, Rags
- Yalaka Venugopal Rao — Venu
- Abdur Razzak — Lalla (Mushfiqur Rahim)
- Abdul Razzaq — Razzler, Popeye[5]
- Paul Reiffel — Pistol
- David Renneberg — Big Shine
- Harold Rhodes — Dusty Rhodes
- Jonty Rhodes — The Maritzburg Mamba
- Vivian Richards — Master Blaster, the Master, Viv, King Viv
- Mark Richardson — Rigor, Rig (from "rigor mortis" describing his fielding and running ability)
- Greg Ritchie — Fat Cat
- Steve Rixon — Stumper
- R. C. Robertson-Glasgow — Crusoe
- Chris Rogers — Bucky
- Jacques Rudolph — Jackie
- Ken Rutherford — Ruds or Rudder
- Arjuna Ranatunga — Captain Cool
- Marlon Samuels — Elegance, Sagabwoy
- Mohammed Sami — Salami, The Karachi Express
- Kumar Sangakkara — Sanga
- Ramnaresh Sarwan — Sars, Ronnie
- Virender Sehwag — Viru, Prince of Najafgarh, Sultan of Multan
- Paul Sheahan — Timbers
- Ravi Shastri — Shaz
- Ryan Sidebottom — Sidey
- Jack Simmons — Flat Jack, Nosher
- Bob Simpson — Simmo
- Navjot Singh Sidhu —Sherry, Jonty Singh, Sixer Sidhu
- Mathew Sinclair — Skippy
- Yuvraj Singh —Yuvi, Bowlers' Nightmare, Indian 36 (because he hit six sixes in an over, a feat only performed once before in international cricket)
- Michael Slater — Slats
- Peter Sleep — Sounda
- Sir Aubrey Smith — Round the Corner
- Chris Smith — Kippy
- Ian Smith — Stockley
- Graeme Smith — Biff, Smiffy, muffi, Bandit
- Alec Stewart — Wizenedone, Gaffer
- Andrew Strauss — Lord Brocket, Straussy, Levi, Muppet, Johann (after Johann Strauss), Mare Man [6], Wing Commander Strauss
- Andrew Symonds — Symo, Roy, Golden Bollocks, Monkey
- Sreesanth — Sree
- Ishant Sharma — Ishu, Ponting's Nightmare, Lambu (in Hindi) for his height more than 6.5feet
- Shaun Tait — Sloon, Slinger
- Mark Taylor — Tubby, Tails
- Ross Taylor — Roscoe
- Sachin Tendulkar — Tendlya, Sach, Master Blaster, Paaji[13]
- Alan Thomson — Froggie
- Jeff Thomson — Two-up, Thommo
- Graham Thorpe — The Shagger, Thorpey
- Ernie Toshack — The Dark Prince
- Chris Tremlett — Twiggy
- Marcus Trescothick — Banger, Tresco, Elvis (Elvis Prez Trez), Stresscothick (After leaving 06/07 ashes tour)
- Phil Tufnell — Two Sugars, The Cat, Tuffers, in retirement King of the Jungle for winning I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
- Charlie Turner — Terror
- Frank Tyson — Typhoon
- Shaun Udal — Shaggy[21]
- Derek Underwood — Deadly[22]
- Chaminda Vaas — Vaasy
- Michael Vaughan — Virgil, Vaughny, Frankie
- Dilip Vengsarkar — Colonel
- Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan — Venkat, Rhubarb, Rentawagon
- Daniel Vettori — Lucas, Danny, Jeff, Spod
- Lou Vincent — Flusher, The Chin
- Gundappa Viswanath — Vishy
- Maharajkumar of Vizianagram — Vizzy'
- Adam Voges — Vogesy, Hank
- Max Walker — Tangles
- Doug Walters — Freddie, Bikki
- Shane Warne — Warney, Hollywood, The Sheikh of Tweak, Warna
- Shane Watson — Watto, Will, Carson
- Steve Waugh — Tugga, Iceman,Waugh-drobe (pronounced as 'War-drobe')
- Mark Waugh — Afghan[23]
- Cameron White — Bear, Carn, Cam, The Goat
- Craig White — Chalky,
- John Wright — Shake
- Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis (as a bowling partnership) — The Two W's, The Sultans of Reverse Swing
- Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell — The Three W's
- Jai Yadav — J.P.
- Yousuf Youhana — Yo-Yo, Mo-Yo (Converted to islam and his new name is Mohammad Yousuf)
- Waqar Younis — Wicki, The Burewala Bomber, The Burewala Express
- Nuwan Zoysa — digga
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