Glenn McGrath

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Trivia

• In a One Day International against New Zealand cricket team on the 8 December, 2004, Glenn wore a jersey sporting a misspelling of his name- "MCGARTH". The fault was an error of a clothing supplier.
• McGrath was immortalised in song by This Is Serious Mum on their 1998 album www.tism.wanker.com, in The Parable of Glenn McGrath's Haircut, which proposed that success is achieved, not by the cool kids, but the dorks - McGrath's hair style suggesting he was one of the latter.
• A popular war cry made by Australian supporters when McGrath is playing is "Ooh! Ahh! Glenn McGrath!"
• Glenn McGrath's nickname is Pigeon. The nickname came from New South Wales teammate Brad McNamara who upon first laying eyes on his lilly white pins said, "You've stolen a pigeon's legs McGrath". Other nicknames he's answered to are Rhino, Ninger and Nuff Nuff.
• According to Steve Waugh, the ex Australian captain under whom Glenn played for most of his career, McGrath "borders on being obsessive compulsive. Knows every Test wicket he's ever taken, how the batsman was out and what number victim they were. Eats the same breakfast each morning on tour. He places his two fried eggs on separate pieces of white toast before making sure the yolk is perfectly positioned in the middle, before trimming the overhanging egg white edges with surgical precision. The contents are then cut into quarters after being doused with a three-second barrage of salt. It's a real shame to see him eat it such is the masterpiece he creates."
• His sense of humour on the field is well known. Examples include an underarm delivery to New Zealand batsman Kyle Mills in the inaugural international Twenty20 game played between the two countries. This was intentionally reminiscent of the infamous incident during a New Zealand-Australia One Day International in 1981 involving such a delivery by Trevor Chappell (See Underarm delivery). In the 2005 Ashes series on the final day's play at The Oval, England batsman Ashley Giles stood up from his guard at the last second during McGrath's run-up; McGrath, despite pulling up halfway into his delivery, still managed to smash the stumps and issued a comedy mock celebration which in the circumstances required a sense of humour indeed.