10 Bizarre cases of mistaken identity in cricket

4. Cameron Boyce mistaken for an American actor on Twitter

During the 2019-20 BBL, Cameron Boyce revealed an interesting instance where his social media account went on fire. The Australian was mistaken for Cameron Mica Boyce, the American actor. The actor from the USA passed away in July 2019. People all over the globe began to pay their homage to the actor by mistakenly tagging the leg-spinner who also claimed to have received a big number of followers in one night.

3. When the Indian team picked a JP Yadav instead of another JP Yadav

Jyoti Prasad Yadav was selected for India’s tour of Canada for the 1998 Sahara Cup. He didn’t get a chance to make his debut and was never picked in the Indian squad after that. John Wright, in his book Indian Summers, revealed that it was Jai Prakash Yadav whom the Indian selectors wanted to pick but drafted the wrong JP Yadav. Both the players made their professional debut in 1994/95 season.

Jai Prakash had some brilliant numbers with the bat at that time which caught the attention of selectors. He smashed two hundreds and five fifties across the 20 List A games till that point and also claimed 10 wickets. But Jyoti Prasad scored only one fifty in 16 List A matches till then and could only pick two wickets. Both the players had similar numbers with the bat in FC cricket till that point as they smashed 5 centuries apiece.