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    sledging

    'Sledging, like nostalgia, isn't what it used to be, and nowadays is usually nasty rather than humorous. Somewhere in between the amusing and the personal was a little publicised English sledge on the 1994-5 tour, during a game in New South Wales, when the Australian Test player Michael Bevan came out to bat. Bevan didn't know that the England wicketkeeper, Stephen Rhodes, had got hold of a tape recording (via a sleepless occupant of the next room in a thin-walled hotel) of Bevan's encounter with a rather loud and expressive young lady the previous night. As the bowler ran in, Rhodes turned on the X-certificate recording he had in his pocket, and Bevan's scrambled brain resulted in a wild slog and a stumping' -


    The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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    1 Rod Marsh & Ian Botham: When Botham took guard in an Ashes match, Marsh welcomed him to the wicket with the immortal words: "So how's your wife & my kids?"

    2. Daryll Cullinan & Shane Warne: As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had been waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. "Looks like you spent it eating," Cullinan retorted.

    3. Glenn McGrath (bowling to portly Zimbabwean chicken farmer Eddo Brandes): "Hey Eddo, why are you so F**ing Fat?" Eddo Brandes: "Because everytime I F*** your wife, she throws me a biscuit"

    4. Robin Smith & Merv Hughes: During 1989 Lords Test Hughes said to Smith after he played & missed:"You can't f**king bat". Smith to Hughes after he smacked him to the boundary: "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can't f**king bat & you can't f**king bowl."

    5. Merv Hughes & Javed Miandad: During 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.

    6. Merv Hughes & Viv Richards: During a test match in the West Indies, Hughes didn't say a word to Viv, but continued to stare at him after deliveries. "This is my island, my culture. Don't you be staring at me. In my culture we just bowl." Merv didn't reply, but after he dismissed him he announced to the batsman: "In my culture we just say f**k *ff."

    7. And of course you can't forget Ian Healy's legendary comment which was picked up by the Channel 9 microphones when Arjuna Ranatunga called for a runner on a particularly hot night during a one dayer in Sydney... "You don't get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat c**t!!!"

    8. James Ormond had just come out to bat on an ashes tour and was greeted by Mark Waugh....... MW : "F*ck me, look who it is. Mate, what are you doing out here, there's no way you're good enough to play for England" JO : "Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my family"

    9. McGrath to Ramnaresh Sarwan: "So what does Brian Lara's d*ck taste like?" Sarwan: "I don't know. Ask your wife." McGrath (losing it): "If you ever effing mention my wife again, I'll F*ing rip your F*fing throat out."

    10. Mark Waugh standing at second slip, the new player (Adam Parore) comes to the crease playing & missing the first ball. Mark "Ohh, I remember you from a couple years ago in Australia. You were sh*t then, you're fu*king useless now". Parore- (Turning around) "Yeah, that's me & when I was there you were going out with that old, ugly sl*t & now I hear you've married her. You dumb c*nt".

    11. Yet another Australian witticism with this time porky Sri Lankan batsman Arjuna Ranatunga the victim. Shane Warne, trying to tempt the batsman out of his crease mused what it took to get the plump character to get out of his crease and drive. Wicketkeeper Ian Healy piped up,"Put a Mars Bar on a good length. That should do it."

    12. Malcolm Marshall was bowling to David Boon who had played and missed a couple of times. Marshall : "Now David, Are you going to get out now or am I going to have to bowl around the wicket and kill you?"

    13. Fred Trueman bowling. The batsman edges and the ball goes to first sip, and right between Raman Subba Row's legs. Fred doesn't say a word. At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologises sheepishly. "I should've kept my legs together, Fred". "So should your mother" he replied.

    But my personal favourite which is usually attributed to Devon Malcolm and Viv Richards, but I have heard it attributed to players from earlier generations, is:

    Devon - after beating Viv several times in one over "It's round and it's red, now try playing it!" Viv - having responded by hitting the ball out of the ground (the best possible retort of course!) "You know what it looks like, so you go and f***ing find it!!"
    Originally posted by Gordon Brown
    (1995)
    "A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy,which is the sign of a weak government"

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      #3
      legend

      so funny
      "What's your favourite Beatles album then?"
      "I think I'd have to say....Best of the Beatles"

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        #4
        Makes you wonder how Zidane would have coped in the harsh world of international cricket.
        I'm playing all the right notes. Not necessarily in the right order. I'll give you that, sunshine.

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          #5
          Excellent read Chilli.

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            #6
            All hat and no cattle

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              #7
              what a ****ing bowler Marshall was
              Originally posted by Gordon Brown
              (1995)
              "A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy,which is the sign of a weak government"

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                #8
                I loved watching Ian Botham and Malcolm Marshall bowl. Great bowlers - they'd use angle of delivery, change of pace, swing, seam to get a batsman out. Very intelligent bowlers who would set a batsman up for the dismissal ball.
                I'm playing all the right notes. Not necessarily in the right order. I'll give you that, sunshine.

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                  #9
                  My favourite is this one

                  Merv Hughes was bowling to Hansie Cronje during a tour game in South Africa. It was an especially flat wicket and Cronje was hitting Hughes for fours and sixes all over the place.

                  After the umpteenth boundary, Hughes headed down the pitch, stood near Cronje, let out a fart and said: "Try hitting that for six." It was five minutes before the guffawing stopped and play could resume.
                  "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son"

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                    #10
                    Some more Ashes Sledging

                    Move out the way, Gatt. I can’t see the stumps - DENNIS LILLEE, stopping his run-up to address England’s rotund batsman, Mike Gatting

                    You’re just upset because no one loves you any more - KEVIN PIETERSEN to Australian one-day all-rounder Shane Watson, who had just been dumped by his girlfriend

                    Who’s this then? Father bloody Christmas? - JEFF THOMSON to England’s silver-haired batsman, David Steele

                    I’ll bowl you a ******* piano, you Pommie poof. Let’s see if you can play that - MERV HUGHES to England batsman Michael Atherton

                    I don’t mind this lot chirping at me but you’re just the bus driver - NASSER HUSSAIN to Australian batsman Justin Langer

                    Mate, if you just turn the bat over you’ll find the instructions on the other side - MERV HUGHES to Robin Smith, Graeme Hick and just about any other England batsman who ever faced his bowling
                    "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son"

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