February 11, 2012

Cricket sledging

Sledging is part of cricket and some examples are better than others. Sometimes it rebounds on the bowlers who deliver the words.

Eddo Brandes

Former Zimbabwe cricketer Eddo Brandes once had a colorful exchange with Glenn McGrath.

Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath to lower-order Zimbabwean batsman Eddo (chicken farmer) Brandes: “Why are you so fat?”

Brandes: “Because every time I “f**k” your wife, she gives me a biscuit.”

In an interview, Indian bowler Sreesanth said: “He (Lara) defended a ball with an exaggerated back-and-across movement and I just stood there and murmured my disapproval. Next ball he was beaten and I said, ‘is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this impostor, moving around nervously?

“I should have kept my mouth shut for the next ball – mind you, it was a length ball – Lara just pulled it over the church beyond the boundary! He is a true legend.”

I don’t have much personal experience of this. In the under 12s I was once heckled by a wicketkeeper who made abusive remarks I can’t remember while I was facing to bat. My response was to pull the bowler up half way into his run-up, which of course they hate.

It worked.

Comments

  1. devesh says:

    its okay with sledging. but it shouldnt be shown to public.it should be kept within players only.

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