Which player is the best sledger in world cricket history ?

Answer 1

NO CHANCE TO ME..

AWARD THE POINTS TO FIRST ANSWERER.

Answer 2

Wasim Akarm

Answer 3

Glenn McGrath

Answer 4

The Pakistani team, they cheat then sledge the umpire

Answer 5

brait lee

Answer 6

kapil dev

Answer 7

denise lillee

Answer 8

hen

Answer 9

it's gotta be PAKISTAN

Answer 10

G'day Zachin Dentulkarr,

Thanks for your question.

It is a close call but it would be Merv Hughes of Australia. Several of his teammates would be contenders.

Some of the most memorable sledges in cricket history include with appropraite editing:

* 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 retarded"
* 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 bat." Smith's reply after he hit Hughes for a boundary the next ball, "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can't bat and you can't bowl."
1990 - Javed Miandad called Merv Hughes a fat bus conductor. *Merv dismissed Miandad shortly afterwards, and called out "Tickets Please".
* 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 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 so and so!!!"
* 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 s then, you’re f useless now”. Parore- (Turning around) “Yeah, that’s me and when I was there you were going out with that old, ugly cow and now I hear you’ve married her. You dumb so and so!”
* Ravi Shastri v/s the aussie 12th man, Shastri hits it to this guy and looks for a single…this guy gets the ball in and says “if you leave the crease i’ll break your head” Shastri: “if you could bat as well as you can talk you wouldn’t be the 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?”
* 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.
* Mark Waugh to Jimmy 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.)
* Glenn McGrath to Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes after Brandes had played and missed at a McGrath delivery: "Oi, Brandes, why are you so fat?" to which Brandes replied: "Cos every time I make love to your wife she gives me a biscuit!" Apparently even the Australian slips were in hysterics.
* 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."
* Greg Thomas, a Glamorgan fast bowler, thundered in and beat Vivian 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!"
* In the 1996 Cricket World Cup quarter-final encounter between Indian cricket team and Pakistani cricket team, Pakistani batsman Aamer Sohail hit Venkatesh Prasad through a vacant area of the field for four runs. Sohail pointed at Prasad, and then to the vacant area, as if to tell Prasad that since there were no fielders there, he (Prasad) should retrieve the ball himself. The next delivery, Prasad bowled Sohail. As Sohail left the pitch, Prasad pointed him to the pavilion.
* 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."

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 b, your mother should have."

* 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

* 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!"

* 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 adrenalin. 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.

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