Tag: Sledging

  • How to tackle sledging?

    Offense as they say is the best defense. As Siddharth Ravindran puts it, What would happen if the non-striking batsman started chatting to the bowler as he was about to commence his run-up? There would be a hell of a fuss, and on-field chatter would quickly cease to be a one-way street. Totally agree with…

  • Sledging from the crowd!!

    From Cricinfo: Message of the day: And just when Graeme Smith thought it couldn’t get any worse. Two South African fans, shirtless and no doubt fuelled with lager, took out a banner soon after lunch. “Smith: Hope you’d scored more with Minki [van der Westhuizen],” it said, a reference to his former girlfriend. So much…