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September 24, 2006Posted on 09/24/2006 in Offbeat
A lot in a name
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Ramachandra Guha has a look at a few fascinating stories linked to some cricketers' names.
If Pataudi's was the most democratic name change undergone by a cricketer, surely the most charming was that effected by the England fast bowler Bob Willis. He made his first-class debut with the two Christian names his parents gave him. Then he spent a winter following Bob Dylan around the west coast of America. After he returned to England, and cricket, he changed his name by deed-poll to "Robert George Dylan Willis
Read the full piece in The Hindu
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