The Art of Sledging

In these days of cricketing correctness, where codes of behaviour are being handed down by the Cricket Police, this title is a salute to the good old days when games were won and lost by whatever means available. It is a collection of crude, rude, famous and infamous sledges all placed within the context of the match.

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
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*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!'