Top Cricket Sledges

O

Ozymandias

Senior Member
Joined
May 4, 2005
Messages
660
Reaction score
0
  • 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?" the reply from Botham was "my wife's fine, your kids are retarded".
  • 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.
  • Glenn McGrath (bowling to portly Zimbabwean chicken farmer Eddo Brandes): "Hey Eddo, why are you so ****ing fat?" Eddo Brandes: "Because every time I **** your mother, she throws me a biscuit."
  • Robin Smith & Merv Hughes: During 1989 Lords Test, Hughes said to Smith after he played & missed: "You can't ****ing bat." Smith to Hughes after he smacked him to the boundary: "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can't ****ing bat & you can't ****ing bowl.
  • 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.
  • 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 **** off.".
  • Ian Healy & Arjuna Ranatunga: 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 ****!".
  • James Ormond & Mark Waugh: Ormand had just come out to bat on an Ashes tour and was greeted by Mark Waugh. Mark Waugh: "**** me, look who it is. Mate, what are you doing out here? There's no way you're good enough to play for England." James Ormond: "Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my family."
  • Glenn McGrath & Ramnaresh Sarwan: McGrath to Sarwan: "So what does Brian Lara's dick taste like?" Sarwan: "I don't know. Ask your wife." McGrath (losing it): "If you ever ****ing mention my wife again, I'll ****ing rip your ****ing throat out!".
  • Mark Waugh & Adam Parore: Waugh standing at second slip, the new player (Parore) comes to the crease playing & missing the first ball. Mark: "Oh, I remember you from a couple years ago in Australia. You were **** then, you're ****ing useless now." Parore (turning around): "Yeah, that's me. And when I was there you were going out with that old, ugly slut. And now I hear you've married her, you dumb ****!".
  • Ian Healy & Arjuna Ranatunga: 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."
  • Ravi Shastri vs the Aussie 12th man (don't remember who, and don't want to slander anyone): Shastri hits it to this guy and looks for a single. This guy gets the ball in and says, "If you leave the crease I'll break your ****ing head." Shastri: "If you could bat as well as you can talk you wouldn't be the ****ing 12th man."
  • Malcolm Marshall & David Boon: 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?"
  • Fred Trueman & Raman Subba Row: Fred Trueman bowling. The batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip, 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
 
Oooh, the Mcgrath and Sarwan was a bit insensitive, considering his wife's illness and all. Maybe Sarwan did not know.
 
sox63 said:
Oooh, the Mcgrath and Sarwan was a bit insensitive, considering his wife's illness and all. Maybe Sarwan did not know.
Click to expand...

I'm betting it happened ages ago. Anyways you shouldn't be dishing it out if u can't take it back.

Those sledges were hilarious though :D
 
Bwahahahaha that's a classic post :D

Well done Ozymandias :cool:

* If they turn up the stump mikes I might start watching more cricket again*
 
ShaunSA said:
I'm betting it happened ages ago. Anyways you shouldn't be dishing it out if u can't take it back.

Those sledges were hilarious though :D
Click to expand...

I remember that incident. Wasn't so long ago. ;)
 
Would love to know what Flintoff said to Yuvraj Singh just before Singh hit that young boy English bowler for 6 6's :). Least successful sledge ever.
 
sox63 said:
Oooh, the Mcgrath and Sarwan was a bit insensitive, considering his wife's illness and all. Maybe Sarwan did not know.
Click to expand...

Sarwan sure did know that, but like said before don't sledge if you can't take the reply. The purpose to sledge is to unsettle someone and Sarwan had the upper hand after his reply. To insult and sledge is so part of the Ausie game it is good to see them on the short end of things.
 
Brilliant post Ozymandias

Hers some more!

Viv Richards v Greg Thomas
This incident took place during a county championship match between Glamorgan and Somerset. Glamorgan paceman Thomas had beaten Richards' bat a couple of times and informed him: "It's red, round and weighs about five ounces, in case you were wondering."
The very next ball Sir Issac Vivian Andrews Richards gave him the royal treament and smashed the ball out of the ground, into a nearby river - at which point he piped up: "Greg, you know what it looks like. Now go and fetch it."


Steve Waugh & Parthiv Patel
This happened during India's tour of Australia in 2001. The series was level at 1-1. It was the 5th and final test at Sydney and India was 4 wickets away from a historic series victory on Aussie soil. However, the aussie Captain, Steve Waugh was proving a thorn in India's back. Playing in his last test match (as he had announced retirement), he mounted a rear-guard action and was fighting for a draw, and was the only one who stood between India and victory. In an attempt to induce him to do something foolish, the 16 year old Indian wicket keeper chirps " Hey Steve, how about one of those famous slog sweep of yours before you leave forever?". Waugh, a veteran of such tactics replied " Sonny! You better show some respect! You were pooping in your diapers when I made my debut"


Sunil Gavaskar
Once, during the tour of West Indies, a young bowler was trying to get under Gavaskar's skin by sledging. Gavaskar, a senior player retorted "Son, don't waste time sledging at me. I have been sledged at more often than you have taken a piss".

Trueman and Aussie batsman
In an England v Australia Test during early 1960's Trueman was fielding close to the gate from the pavilion. As a new batsman came out he turned to shut the gate, Trueman said "Don't bother son, you won't be out there long enough."

Adam Parore and Daryll Cullinan.
Because Cullinan is well known for being Warne's bunny, New Zealand keeper Parore greeted the South African, carefully playing the first ball from kiwi Chris Harris, with a cry of: "Bowled Warnie!"
 
Last edited:
Theres one I remembered with Pollock and Sangakara.
Polly bowled a few outside offstump and the batsmen missed, so Polly chirps can you see the bowl, its the little round and white thing flying past you, next ball Sangakara wacks him for 6 and tell Polly go get the ball you know what it looks like!:P

When we used to play we did a lot of chirping to, if a Gujarati/Hindhu/Tamil oke came in to bat we would normally say "come on guys hes a veggie, he cant find the meat of the bat!":p
 
Ahh I miss the sledging days of Warne, S. Waugh et al. Used to be so much fun to watch :(

I think that one dude that nobody wanted to sledge was Klusener because nobody wanted to piss him off :D
 
Lots of aussies in the sledging department - good to see.
 
From memory so all corrections welcome.

Allan Border once said to Brian McMillan: "For a big bloke, you don't bowl very fast." He got no reaction - until lunch, when McMillan burst into the Australian dressing room, put a gun to Border's head and asked him to repeat the slur. After the match, McMillan again stormed into the Australian dressing room and Austalians eyes widened when he started to pull something from his pocket. There was relief allround when he produced a couple of beers and a big smile.

Being wary of Brian McMillan's size, the Australian team generally left him alone when it came to sledging. In a match early in Shane Warne's career, Brian McMillan was having great difficulty reading Warne's array of different spins. Warne decided to help McMillan out by announcing, before each ball, the type of spin he would be delivering next. Still unable to play Warne's spin, McMillan walked down the pitch and said to him, "Listen, a lot of people go missing every day in South Africa and one more won't be noticed. Next time you're in South Africa I will take you fishing and I will use you as bait for the sharks".

Allan Border was known to be pretty impervious to opponents sledging him. That was until he came up against Brian McMillan. Border was batting when he heard chirping coming from the slips. He looked around and saw McMillan blowing him a kiss. He admitted to falling apart at that point and went out next ball.
 
I notice Warnes cry of 'you just dropped the world cup' is absent :)

Not really sledging though I suppose, more a statement of fact..
 
idiiiooot..
eish that mark waugh v adam parore sledge was a bit over the top...
But wow mark waugh's chick aint that great looking.. lol. ;)
 
Steve Waugh to Herschelle Gibbs
"You've just dropped the World Cup, son."
The Incident
Herschelle Gibbs - 1999 World Cup
South Africa batted first in a crucial Super Six match and set Australia 271 to win. Gibbs scored a fabulous 101 and Lance Klusener polished off the innings with a typical 36 off just 25 balls. Australia began their chase in rather disastrous fashion, losing both openers with the score on just 20. And when Damien Martyn fell, Australia had just 48 on the board and it was going to be uphill. Enter Steve Waugh.

Waugh has always known never to give up without a fight. And this was no different. Despite having to chase down a run rate of nearly 7.5 runs per over, he never panicked and with the talented Ricky Ponting at the other end, the going seemed good. Until

In his efforts, Waugh flicked a ball off his pads uppishly to short mid wicket. It went at a catchable height to the second best fielder in the world (at the time), Herschelle Gibbs. What's more important, is Gibbs seemed to have caught it and just as he was about to start the celebrations, the ball slipped out of his hand! Tragedy!

Successive replays and referrals confirmed that he had not hung on to the ball for the mandatory three seconds for the effort to be considered a catch. Steve Waugh waited for the umpires to rule and they did so in his favour. It was then rumoured that Waugh told Gibbs, "You've just dropped the World Cup, son."

Prophetic as the words turned out, they have since been denied by Waugh, Gibbs and all parties involved! The fact of the matter is that Waugh, who was on 56 at the time, went on to score 120 in just 110 balls and gain the psychological edge for Australia's semi final against the same opponents four days later. And how!
Click to expand...
http://in.sports.yahoo.com/sportz/magical_moments-steve.html
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X