Some are the same, most are different.
* 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"
* 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 fecking mention my wife again, I will fecking rip your fecking 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 fecking bat." Smith's reply after he hit Hughes for a boundary the next ball, "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can't fecking bat and you can't fecking bowl."
* 1990 - Javed Miandad called Merv Hughes a "fat bus conductor". Merv dismissed Miandad shortly afterwards, and called out "Tickets Please".
* 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."
* 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 feck 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 cnut!"
* 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 shit then, you’re fecking useless now”. Parore- (Turning around) “Yeah, that’s me and when I was there you were going out with that old, ugly slut and now I hear you’ve married her. You dumb cnut!"
* 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 fecking head” Shastri: “if you could bat as well as you can talk you wouldn’t be the fecking 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 fecking fat?" to which Brandes replied: "Cos every time I feck your wife she gives me a biscuit!" Apparently even the Australian slips were in hysterics.
* 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 not out.
* 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. [3], Video
* 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 and say 'this not our conditions, this is not our conditions' and go to the press conference and say the same. fecking joke. If you win, be gracious, man. Otherwise it's shit. Graceful, man, graceful, Shaun. Learn it."
* 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).
* 2004 - Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne was alleged to have called Ronnie Irani's mother a "whore".
These are 'Myths' or un-proven:
* 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. [4] [5]
* 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.
