I love sledging.
It is great.
Test Cricket would be poorer if it were not there.
Soft players like Graeme Hick might have had careers.
Yuck.
So when Albie “I don’t need to hear from Gautam” Sachs comes in and says it is against the spirit of the game, he goes straight into my Peter Roebuck file.
Spirit of the game, spirit of my asshole.
I am so sick of this bullshit.
Sledging has always happened, back in the day it was more gentlemanly by-play, and it included things like, here is my bunny and I’ll bet you a thruppunenny you can’t hit my wicket ol’ chap.
Times have changed, and so has the language.
Sledging has a limit, racism is out, homophobia will be next.
No one likes to see a batsman be sent off.
And other people probably have limits that I don’t care about.
Gautam City Gambhir has made his name in this series.
Before this he was a fringe test batsman with a good white ball record.
Everyone could see his talent, but he couldn’t quite make it happen in tests.
He looked good early on against Australia, but they talked him out of his innings.
The minute he stopped scoring freely they were all over him, and he fell for it.
Then he stood up, and he used the sledging to focus himself, and suddenly the boy who couldn’t make a test century become the man who made a double ton.
Did he let it get to him, yes.
And physically that manifested itself as an angry elbow.
But he used it to urge him on as well, who knows if he would have had a series like this if the Australians didn’t force him to concentrate.
Now he leaves this series as a proper test batsman.
One who can take all the shit thrown at him, and make runs at the highest level.
Tis a beautiful thing this sledging is.
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I think Gambhir deserves that fine.U can talk all the crap but physical contact should be left for wwe.But they should have fined watson more and also johnson.
yad> What did Johnson do ? Did you mean Katich ?
yad> nvm. i figured out what happened :)
Johnson did a couple dance with laxman during the tea break.Seriously,he got involved in a verbal spat with laxman on fifth day. And ponting said its beacause he was irritated by laxman’s comments in the press confrence when he talked abt australia being too defensive.Now thats what i call real jokes.ponting should do standups now
There are many stories about Bill O’Reilly whenever he faced a new batsman if they play and missed he would charge up the wicket and scream, “You’re just not fucken good enough, are ya?”People claim there was no sledging in the old days – what a lot of horse shit. Its been a part of the game as long as there has been a game.Sport is short and manic, like a game of football – cricket isn’t a sport, it’s a society. In societies people talk to each other and sometimes its not so nice (sometimes its dead funny).Keep sledging boys, and fucken get on with it.
There are many stories about Bill O’Reilly whenever he faced a new batsman if they play and missed he would charge up the wicket and scream, “You’re just not fucken good enough, are ya?”People claim there was no sledging in the old days – what a lot of horse shit. Its been a part of the game as long as there has been a game.Sport is short and manic, like a game of football – cricket isn’t a sport, it’s a society. In societies people talk to each other and sometimes its not so nice (sometimes its dead funny).Keep sledging boys, and fucken get on with it.
There are many stories about Bill O’Reilly whenever he faced a new batsman if they play and missed he would charge up the wicket and scream, “You’re just not fucken good enough, are ya?”People claim there was no sledging in the old days – what a lot of horse shit. Its been a part of the game as long as there has been a game.Sport is short and manic, like a game of football – cricket isn’t a sport, it’s a society. In societies people talk to each other and sometimes its not so nice (sometimes its dead funny).Keep sledging boys, and fucken get on with it.
Leela, done. Yad, he wasn’t fined he was suspended, i could handle a fine. Ned, Just another reason I want to reanimate his corpse.