'We thought you were Grey Worm'

Celebrities being mistaken for other celebrities is a common enough occurrence. Only in Ross Taylor's case, the confusion nearly caused an embarrassing blooper.

Taylor, who is playing as an overseas professional for Sussex this season, was set to make his debut as an IPL expert for Sky Sports in late April. Instead, on the day of the shoot, he inadvertently found himself in the wrong room preparing for an appearance on the wrong show and mistaken for someone rather far removed from the world of cricket or the IPL. It took a while for all parties to catch on to the fact that something wasn't quite right.

"So the driver picks me up and drops me off at the gate," Taylor told blackcaps.co.nz. "He said a runner was going to come pick me up, so a runner comes and picks me up and introduces himself. He said, 'You come with me,' so I followed him.

"He takes me into this little room; I didn't know anyone in there. The only person I recognised was Michael van Gerwen, the old darts player. Then this guy comes over to me and hands me a mic. Now for the cricket I was told to bring dress shoes and pants and they will supply a shirt. Well this guy comes over and starts putting a clip up my shirt, and I'm like, 'Don't I have to get dressed up'?"

"The guy goes, 'What's your name?', I say, 'Ross Taylor,' and then he turned around to his producer and said, 'Told you, that's not him'. And he goes, 'Oh mate, I'm so sorry. We've got the wrong person. We thought you were Grey Worm from Game of Thrones'."

Turns out, the celebrity Taylor was mistaken for was British actor Jacob Anderson, famous for his role as Grey Worm, commander of the Unsullied Army in the popular television series. And the New Zealand batsman almost made an appearance on a Saturday-morning football show on the day of the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester United and Everton. Taylor was quick to find the humour in the episode.

"So I was two minutes away from going on Soccer AM, the UK's massive Saturday morning soccer show ahead of the FA Cup semi final as Grey Worm from Game of Thrones - who's a huge Manchester United fan apparently. It would've been like that guy who came to the BBC for a job interview that ended up talking live on TV."