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Bazal

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Heard uttered by our wicket keeper last season, after our part time spinner got hit for six by a particularly large batsman who was rooted to the crease against everyone else...

"Well that figures...bowl him a pie and he moves like Tendulkar..."
 

Scott

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Rod Marsh to Ian Botham as IB arrives at the crease and takes guard-

"Hello Ian, how is your wife and my kids?"
 

gregstar

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after botham kept playing & missing against lillee, lillee said to him "you just hold the bat still & i'll hit it for you!"
 

Briza

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When I was playing cricket in the bush against one of the local coppers, who proceeded to hit me for 3 straight 4's as soon as he entered the crease.

I gave him a massive gobfull when I bowled him 4th ball and after he said to me "you're a real merkin with the ball in your hand" my mate in the covers said as he walked past, "and your a real c0ck without your glock" - damn i thought it was funny.
 

Freddo

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the stumps are hungrey lets feed them a cherry

cant bowl cant throw

i think ur on the wrong field the netball courts are over there
 

JJ

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For an all-time great fast bowler, McGrath has been on the end of his share of great sledges (perhaps reflecting his own inability to sledge, except via the media)

The McGrath - Eddo Brandes one with the Pigeon's wife offering big Eddo a biscuit after every bonk is an all-time classic.

But also

Glenn McGrath "How does Brian Lara's c**k taste?"
Ramnaresh Sarwan "I dunno, why don't you ask your wife?"
Glenn McGrath "I'll kill you you $%$^$&#*@(*@)@ " or words to that effect

McGrath sets himsefl up beautifully


The comeback to Mark Waugh, by an Englishman I've long forgotten is brilliant..

On being told by Mark Waugh how crap he was, and how he had no place in test cricket, the calm response:
"Oh well, at least I'm the best player in my family"
 

MKEB...

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One I used when I was keeping a while back.

"Nice bat mate, is that a Kookaburra?"
"yep"
"I had one of those a while back"
"Yeah?"
"Then my old man got a job"
 

MKEB...

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After bowling a bouncer at Stephen Fleming, Javagal Srinath stands in the middle of the pitch and starts calling out "Fleming, Fleming". Fleming gives hima glare and says "f**k off back to ya mark ya merkin". Srinath looks at him againand says "I was just seeing if you were alright".

When if the ball had of done what it was intended to do, he definitly wouldnt of been alright.


Also we have a team of Sri Lankans in our grade. They were standing around the bat yelling stuff out and laughing. So I said "if you are going to sledge me can you at least sledge me in English". They all were.
 

Notell

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This is a sledge of sorts from a team-mate. Doug Walters to Johnnie Gleeson after Gleeson had been hot out of the ground a few times:

"Well, that's the end of the reds. Now we're onto the colours."
 

grouch

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Scott said:
Rod Marsh to Ian Botham as IB arrives at the crease and takes guard-

"Hello Ian, how is your wife and my kids?"
Bothams reply was supposedly: "Wife's fine, kids are geniused."

One of the best would be the Warne-Cullinan exchange:
Warne: I've been waiting 2 years to humiliate you.
Cullinan: Looks like you spent it eating.
 

hineyrulz

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some merv hughes classics

after another bouncer from big merv he run's done the pitch and gives javed mianad the big stare.
miandad come's back with "your a fat useless bus driver,your a bus driver"

next over merv get's his man and as he runs past javed he yells "ticket's please" with an outstretched hand. :lol:

another in 1991 vs the windies

get's in a staring duel with the great viv richards
viv replies with "this is my culture man my country dont you go disrespecting me man it's my culture"

next over he dismisses the great man and replies with "in my culture we say f**k off" classic merv.
 

MKEB...

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Martin Bicknell Bowls Viv Richards a bouncer which Viv hooks for six.
Umpire says " thats your one bouncer"
Viv gets down his knees and pleads with the umpire "that's not fair, please pleeeeease let him bowl me some more of them".
 
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JJ said:
For an all-time great fast bowler, McGrath has been on the end of his share of great sledges (perhaps reflecting his own inability to sledge, except via the media)

The McGrath - Eddo Brandes one with the Pigeon's wife offering big Eddo a biscuit after every bonk is an all-time classic.

But also

Glenn McGrath "How does Brian Lara's c**k taste?"
Ramnaresh Sarwan "I dunno, why don't you ask your wife?"
Glenn McGrath "I'll kill you you $%$^$&#*@(*@)@ " or words to that effect

McGrath sets himsefl up beautifully


The comeback to Mark Waugh, by an Englishman I've long forgotten is brilliant..

On being told by Mark Waugh how crap he was, and how he had no place in test cricket, the calm response:
"Oh well, at least I'm the best player in my family"

That sledge never happened as confirmed by Brandes himself, just a Myth along with 90% of the other sledges on this topic. The Steve Waugh/Herschall Gibbs sledge is also a Myth as confirmed by both Steve and Herschell.

I think its more of a case of someone thinking up a good sledge after the game and someone starting a rumour or telling a drunken story that it happened one day out on the feild.
 

Cupid Stunt

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This would be most of the best butchered & well known ones that people seem to be posting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sledging_(cricket)

Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh, to English batsman Ian Botham: "So how's your wife and my kids?" The reply "The wife's fine, the kids are geniused"
2003 - Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath chided West Indian batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan "so, what does Brian Lara's dick taste like?" Sarwan replied "I don't know, ask your wife." McGrath lost his temper and yelled "If you ever f**king mention my wife again, I will f**king rip your f**king throat out!" (McGrath was upset because his wife had just been diagnosed with cancer)
Greg Thomas, a Glamorgan fast bowler, thundered in and beat Viv Richards's bat. "It's red and it's round. Can't you see it?" the bowler taunted. The next ball was precisely the same; pitching three quarters of length on middle and off, seaming away, and once again Richards was comprehensively beaten. "It's red and it's round and it weighs four-and-a-half ounces. Can't you see it?", Greg Thomas quipped. The next delivery was right in the slot, and Viv smashed the ball out of the ground and straight into the river that flowed around it. The batsman then said to the bowler: "You know what it looks like... go get it!"
Australian Merv Hughes to Englishman Robin Smith: "Does your husband play cricket as well?"
Another incident involving Merv Hughes and Robin Smith. During a 1989 Lord's test, Hughes said to Smith after Smith played and missed, "You can't f**king bat." Smith's reply after he hit Hughes for a boundary the next ball, "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can't f**king bat and you can't f**king bowl."
1990 - Javed Miandad called Merv Hughes a "fat bus conductor". Merv dismissed Miandad shortly afterwards, and called out "Tickets Please".
Shane Warne when bowling against Arjuna Ranatunga wondered aloud what would draw him out of his crease. Wicketkeeper Ian Healy piped up, "Put a Mars Bar on a good length. That should do it." Ranatunga not to be out done believed to have said " Then i'm sure Boony here will get it before me" referring to David Boon who was fielding at first slip.
Shane Warne (Australia) to Daryll Cullinan (South Africa): "I've been waiting two years to humiliate you again." Cullinan: "Looks like you spent the time eating."
Mark Waugh to James Ormond coming out to bat in an Ashes match: “Mate, what are you doing out here, there’s no way you’re good enough to play for England.” Ormond: “Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my family.” (Mark's twin brother Steve was captain of the team.)
Aamer Sohail was also involved in another famous incident. In the 1980s Ian Botham returned early from a tour of Pakistan, and on radio joked "Pakistan is the sort of country to send your mother in-law to." Needless to say the Pakistanis did not find this amusing, and when Pakistan defeated England in the 1992 World Cup Final, Aamer Sohail told Ian Botham "Why don't you send your mother-in-law out to play, she cannot do much worse."
New Zealand vs South Africa: Daryll Cullinan was batting, attempting a comeback from a complete bamboozling from Warne in earlier games. Cullinan played the first ball from Chris Harris very carefully back down the pitch, and keeper Parore yelled out "Well bowled Warnie!"
There have also been instances of teammates sledging each other. One very famous incident involved Fred Trueman and Raman Subba Row. England were playing Pakistan and, at what turned out to be a crucial moment later on, Trueman managed to get an outside edge off a Pakistani batsman after the batsman had been frustrating them on a hot sweaty day. The ball went right through the hands of Raman Subba Rao who was standing in first slip and through his legs. After the over Raman heads over to the bowler and says, "Sorry Fred, I should've closed my legs." Fred Trueman, who didn't find any of this amusing, quipped back, "No, you bastard, your mother should have."

Humourous and offensive
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. Viv said "This is my island, my culture. Don't you be staring at me. In my culture we just bowl." Merv bowled him out soon after and replied "In my culture we just say f**k off."
Ian Healy to Arjuna Ranatunga when he called for a runner during a one day match: "You don't get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat merkin!"
Mark Waugh standing at second slip, the new player Adam Parore comes to the crease playing and missing the first ball. Mark - “Ohh, I remember you from a couple years ago in Australia. You were sh*t then, you’re f**king useless now”. Parore- (Turning around) “Yeah, that’s me and when I was there you were going out with that old, ugly s**t and now I hear you’ve married her. You dumb merkin!"
Ravi Shastri vs. the Aussie 12th man, Shastri hits it to the 12th man fielding and looks for a single and the fielder gets the ball in and says “if you leave the crease i’ll break your f**king head” Shastri: “if you could bat as well as you can talk you wouldn’t be the f**king 12th man”
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?”
Glenn McGrath to Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes after Brandes had played and missed at a McGrath delivery: "Oi, Brandes, why are you so f**king fat?" to which Brandes replied: "Cos every time I f**k your wife she gives me a biscuit!" Apparently even the Australian slips were in hysterics.

Psychological
Psychological sledging is seen as a way of getting under an opposing player's skin, and disrupting their concentration. Normally directed at batsmen, often by wicketkeepers and close in fielders, sometimes the tables can be turned...

1999 - Perhaps the most famous sledge is reported to have taken place during the epic World Cup Super Six clash between Australia and South Africa. South Africa looked on course to victory with Australian captain Steve Waugh at the crease and on 56. At that stage, Waugh clipped the ball in the air straight to South African fielder Herschelle Gibbs. In his haste, Gibbs dropped the ball when attempting to throw it in the air in celebration as he had not fully controlled it. As he passed him, Waugh is said to have asked Gibbs: "How does it feel to have dropped the World Cup?". Waugh carried on to make an unbeaten 120 and Australia posted an unlikely win and won the World Cup a few days later. Waugh has denied that quote, instead claiming that he said "looks like you've dropped the match".
Sunil Gavaskar had decided to relinquish his opening position and come in at no 4 for that test. But, Malcolm Marshall fired out Anshuman Gaekwad and Dilip Vengsarkar for ducks, setting the stage for Gavaskar to walk in at 0/2. And he thought there would be less pressure! Viv Richards says "Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero." Gavaskar made 236*
During the 1997 Ashes series, the English team decided not to sledge Steve Waugh as he revelled in a hostile atmosphere and sledging merely fuelled his adrenaline. Waugh arrived at the crease and soon realised this: 'OK, you're not talking to me are you? Well, I'll talk to myself then'. And he did, for 240 minutes in the first innings, and 382 minutes in the second.[2]
2004 England's Andrew Flintoff, at slip, teased West Indies' tailender Tino Best for repeatedly trying to slog Ashley Giles over the top for six, so Flintoff said: "Mind the Windows, Tino!", meaning the pavilion windows. Best charged out to meet the next ball, swung wildly at it (attempting a six), missed and was stumped by Geraint Jones, getting out and leaving Flintoff with a stitch.
Kumar Sangakkara November 2003; to Gareth Batty, England's main spin bowler on tour; "Where's England's best spinner?".
Kumar Sangakkara to Shaun Pollock: "We don't complain when we lose away, man," ... "We don't cry like in Morocco [where Sri Lanka had beaten South Africa in the final of a one-day competition] and say 'this not our conditions, this is not our conditions' and go to the press conference and say the same. f**king joke. If you win, be gracious, man. Otherwise it's sh*t. Graceful, man, graceful, Shaun. Learn it." (Another instance of Sangakkara sledging Pollock)
Kumar Sangakkara to Ashwell Prince: "Why don't your teammates eat with you Ashley? Don't they think your're good enough for them? Why don't they like you Ashwell, huh? What did you do?" after it transpired that Prince and other coloured players in the South African team were eating at a separate table to the white players in their team hotel.
Kumar Sangakkara to Andrew Hall:"Where's the attitude now? Where's the arrogance and the attitude now, huh? Are you guys rattled now? Eh? Doubting yourself, man? Self-doubt, man, eh?"
Kumar Sangakkara to Harbhajan Singh: "Bhaji you look good in your short sleeves why dont you wear them when you bowl too ?" referring to Harbhajan's bowling action that had just been reported to the ICC for chucking.
2005: South Africa batsman Justin Kemp was facing a string of beautiful deliveries from Shane Warne, so much that Warne started calling Kemp "Daryll" (referring to Daryll Cullinan who was tortured by Warne's bowling throughout his career).

Myth
1993 - The Australian slip cordon allegedly greeted New Zealand batsman Chris Cairns with a chant of "Choo Choo" after his sister had just been killed in a train accident.
1999 - It was alleged that Shane Warne uttered the words "can't bowl, can't throw" in respect of team mate Scott Muller's cricketing ability during second test Australia vs Pakistan in Hobart. Warne denied using the words and shortly after the event, a Channel 9 camera man named Joe admitted to making up the comment. Scott Muller was still adamant that Warne made the comments
 

Mike Ockiserect

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'this guys almost as bad as mark waugh in that match where he got a below-his-average score and was troubled by the spinners, not seeing the ball well at all'
 

Tommy Smith

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I dont know whats funnier - some of the sledgers or the fact that it seems to be the Aussies on the receiving end of most of 'em.
 
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