greatest cricketing sledges of all time...

[andyc]

He didn't drop it per se, just failed to control it

Welcome to CW by the way.

 

[luckyeddie]

Why do you have a problem with filtered words??????

Family-oriented site - you'll never catch me falling foul of the naughty word filter.

Which reminds me - my favourite (told to me at a cricket club dinner in about 1969 by Mike Smedley when the conversation came around to sledging)

Mike Smedley (after ducking under bouncer) "Is that all you've got, Fred?"
Fred Trueman "**** off!"

 

[Smudge]

Apparently there was a good natured joust between Hershelle Gibbs and Steve Waugh at the world cup in 1999 where Gibbs made a century so of course, Waugh had to reply in kind. When Waugh was in the 50s he propped the easiest catch never caught that I've ever seen that Gibbs dropped. At the end of the over he said to Gibbs "Hershelle, you realised you just cost Sough Africa the world cup don't you?" He was right it turned out as Waugh played his best ever one-day innings and won the game for Australia in a flukey win. Australia then drew SA in the next game.

Another fabled cricket sledge ala the Chris Cairns "choo choo" incident, isn't it?

 

[andyc]

Another fabled cricket sledge ala the Chris Cairns "choo choo" incident, isn't it?

In his autobiography, he said that it was something along the lines of, "Look, you realise you've just cost your team the game?" Nowhere near as catchy as "you just dropped the World Cup."

 

[Butterteeth]

Warne - poet laureate

Not sure if this did actually occur, but my simple little mind found this quite funny.

In the recently completed Australia v South Africa series, Warne was bowling to Justin Kemp who had absolutely no idea what the ball was doing and looked likely to get out any minute.

Warne apparently said: "They're leg spinners Justin"..

 

[Francis]

What's funny is that Warne never got him out, and then in the next innings, Kemp was bowling to Warne and got him lbw. Kemp was happy as Warne walked off, but then he remembered he just had to say something and the moment nearly passed him by...

"They're called in-swingers Warney."

One of the few times a Warne sledge didn't work and somebody outsledged him. Fantastic.

 

[prossj]

When i was playing i kept swinging and missing and the keeper kept on teasing m. the nexball that i faced i hit it straight up and he dropped me. I ended up making 44. when he dropped me on 1. that is in Jnrs

 

[the_last_rites]

Merv Hughes was bowling to a Pakistan batsman (can't remember who), and he'd been hit for six, comes in to bowl the next ball, gets hit for six again, Merv falls over in his follow through. The batsman comes down the wicket to ask if Merv is ok. Merv groans, lets out a whopping great fart and exclaims "Hit that for six, ya ****!!"

that was actually Cronje. He was thrashing Merv all around the park when Merv pulled out that beamer. Legend has it that it took 5 mins for all the players and the umpires to stop laughing and get back into the game.

But here are some I found which I think are pretty rare



Posted on 2 January 2006

"Bic Mac couldn't pick Warnie at all, he didn't have a clue. Before the tour we had decided not to sledge Brian because he was bigger than all of us and we didn't want to provoke him, but Warnie couldn't resist it: 'Hey, Big Mac, I'll call them out to you - maybe that'll help'."

"So for the next three or four overs Warnie called every ball: 'leg spinner' - and Big Mac would play and miss. Next ball: 'wrong'un' - and it would hit Big Mac on the pad. Next ball: 'flipper'... and so it went on. It didn't help Brian much, though. He couldn't score a run. Couldn't lay a bat on it.

"Eventually Brian had had enough and he walked down the pitch to Warnie at the end of the over. 'Hey, Shane...you're coming to South Africa next month. Hundreds of people go missing or die in our country every day...another one won't make any difference.'

"Well, Warnie turned white. He couldn't bowl - suddenly it was full tosses and half trackers. I ran up from first slip at the end of the over and asked him if he was OK. 'Do you think he meant it?' was all he could say."

The story is told by former Australian captain Mark Taylor, speaking at the Primary Club breakfast on the morning of the Sydney Test. His topic is 'sledging' on the 1993-94 series and how effective it could be.

Taylor has loved the forthright views and opinions expressed by players before and during the current series and emphasises that, as long as it isn't personal, there will always be a place for 'chat.'

He recounted the tale of McMillan telling Alan Border that he was "going to shoot" him at the close of play. Sure enough he entered the Australian dressing room with an SAP regulation issue handgun and demanded to see Border.

"AB was 38-years-old at the time," said Taylor, "and were all prepared to sacrifice him. 'Down there' we all shouted, pointing to where AB was sitting. Big Mac walked slowly up to him, put the gun down on the bench and slowly reached into each pocket pulling out a couple of cans of Castle.

'Fancy a beer?'"

BTW thats Brian McMillan they're talking about there. I always had this notion that he was a soft spoken guy and that size belied his demeanour. Well not anymore!!


I for one welcome our sledging veteran australian and up 'n coming indian overlords though. I think cricket needs the participants to be shown as something played with more passion and intensity. I also think its high time the ICC and the match refs pulled that huge stick out of there asses and not dish out fines like in the past for sledging. Barring that run out thingie Sreesanth went for, I really think people should appreciate everything else. Anyhow here's to Sree's foul mouth not shutting up and also to Dhoni having the sense to only step in when absolutely necessary and thus not clamping down the mouths of his young army.

 

[PhoenixFire]

On the one regarding Botham and Marsh, you missed out the best bit.

Marsh: How are your wife and my kids?
Botham: The wife is fine, the kids a ********.

Classic.

 

[CrazY GirL]

dont like any of them

 

[burr]

I got these from a friend...
> 5. Merv Hughes & Javed Miandaduring 1991 Adelaide Test, Javed called
> Merv
> a fat bus conductor. A few balls later Merv dismissed Javed: "Tickets
> please", Merv called out as he ran past the departing batsman.

I love that sledge, def one of my favourites.