When i sledged back in my cricket days it was basically just trying to get the batsmen to laugh and off his game,nothing personal ever said,nobody ever said anything personal to me either,all the players sledged to see who was the greatest comedian lol,not sure what it's like these days,haven't played for a long time.
That's true. I always thought it was the easiest way to work out if the blokes you were playing were dickheads.
For example, a few years ago I was skippering a park side. I was batting and I'd been bogged down for ages against this left arm tweaker. The first slip, in this ridiculous William Shatner accent goes:
'Captains log... this planet, is hot and dry. Runs are... hard... to come by. I feel that if I don't score a run soon, hope will run out'.
I hit the next ball into the carpark. The keeper goes:
'Captains log... six...'
We laughed for so long play was held up when the ball came back to the bowler. I'm now friends with that keeper even though we were on opposite sides and I don't play cricket anymore.
On the other hand, there was another team in the same comp where I was batting and a shooter came through off a medium-pacer at ankle height. I turned around and went, 'geez that stayed down', the first slip goes 'who the f**k you talking to, c***'. Abused the shit out me the whole way to 92 and an outright win.
Didn't share a beer with that guy.
