5 Cricketers who resembles their names with the famous cities in the world

There have been a number of players in the 144-year-history of cricket who were and are famous for their unique names. Some cricketers resemble their names with some other professions whereas some others share the names with some unique items or something with fans that are not that familiar.

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Apart from this, there are also cricketers who share their names with famous cities across the world. Although, few players out of these have nothing in connection with these cities they share the name with. So, here we’ll have a look at five cricketers who share either their first name or surname with any city.

Hamilton Masakadza

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The Harare-born senior Zimbabwean batter played for almost two decades for his country across all formats. He appeared in 38 Tests, 209 ODIs, and 66 T20Is for Zimbabwe. Masakadza coincidentally shares his name with the city of Hamilton which is in Oceania’s New Zealand.

Other than this, there is a city with the name Hamilton in the State of Ontario in Canada. It’s quite funny that one of his brothers named Wellington Masakadza shares his name with another city located in New Zealand.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

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The 32-year-old senior Indian pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is playing for the national side of India for the last decade. He has proved his worth with his excellent bowling across all formats of the game. The Meerut-based pacer has delivered some stellar performances in the franchise-based Indian T20 League.

The right-arm pacer shares his name with the city of Bhubaneswar based in the Indian state of Odisha. It is basically known for its rich culture of religious and historic approaches. Although, he was born and brought up in Uttar Pradesh’s city of Meerut and doesn’t have any connection with Bhubaneswar.

Sydney Barnes

Sydney Barnes is one of the cricketers who were there almost at the beginning of the game in the arrival nineteenth century. Barnes made his first international appearance for England almost 121 years back now in 1901. He played 27 Tests for the English team and gave an immense contribution with his bowling.

He scalped 189 wickets with the best performance of 17 wickets in a match. Sydney Francis Barnes shares his name with the city of Sydney based in New South Wales, Australia. Notably, Sydney is one of the most popular cities in Australia.

Charles Coventry

The Kwekwe-based batter played for more than a decade in the Zimbabwean colors. He appeared in 2 Tests and 39 ODIs for his country. He is famously known in the cricketing world for his historic unbeaten knock of 194 runs which was later surpassed by Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar when he scored unbeaten 200 runs individually.

Charles Coventry shares his name with a famous city Coventry based in England. The city is in the West Midlands region of England and the 9^th largest city in England. However, the 39-year-old has not any connection with the city.

Joel Paris

The 29-year-old pacer made his debut for the national side of Australia six years back in 2016. Joel Paris has played only two ODIs for the Australian team since his debut. Apart from that, he has played 27 First Class matches alongside 22 List-A, and 28 T20 matches in the domestic circuit of Australia.

He shares his name with one of the most famous cities in the world. Paris is the capital city of the European Republic of France. Notably, it is also known as the fashion capital of the world. But coming back to Joel, then he doesn’t have any connection with the French city.