The name game
There are 480 letters, 59 words, 15 members and one team, writes GS Vivek in the Indian Express
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
There are 480 letters, 59 words, 15 members and one team, writes GS Vivek in the Indian Express. With an average of 32 letters per name, this team is the longest named international cricket team, which contains 23 of the 26 alphabets in the English dictionary except q, x and z.
Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanka Welegedera is the cricketer with the longest initials in world cricket and has one more than existing record holder Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo