The Art of Sledging

In these days of cricketing correctness, where codes of behaviour are being handed down by the Cricket Police, here is a salute to the good old days when games were won and lost by whatever means available. With a great one-liner on every page, this is a collection of crude, rude, famous and infamous sledges all placed within the context of the match and the rivalries on and off the pitch. Including: Merv Hughes to Graeme Hick: " Mate, if you just turn the bat over you'll find the instructions on the other side." Lillie to Gatting: " Hell, Gatt, move out of the way I can't see the stumps." Woodfull to Jardine: " Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?" Warne to Cullinan: " I've been waiting two years for another chance to humiliate you." Cullinan replies: " Looks like you spent it eating." The most pathetic sledge of all time from present England Captain Kevin Petersen to Chris Gayle: " You're making me cross. You're making me cross. You're making me cross." Possibly the rudest of them all, Mark Waugh to Adam Parore: " Oh, I remember you from a couple of years ago in Australia. You were shit then, you're f**king useless now." Parore replies: " Yeah that's me and when I was there you were going out with the old, ugly slut and now I hear you married her. You dumb c**t." Even teammates have been known to sledge one another, Brian Close to Geoffrey Boycott: " Next bloody ball, bloody belt it or I'll wrap my bat around your bloody head." And the crowd is not adverse to hurling abuse either " Hey Tuffnell, lend us your brain we are building an idiot!"