wpdavid
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Dunno about that. My impression is that the Aus boys have always been very keen to tell us that they value not crossing the line, but it doesn't seem to mean very much. In practice, anything they want to dish out is hunky dory, but anything the opponents do that irks them isn't. Not that that has anything to do with Agnew's comment about Hughes, whose same point had been made rather better on these pages a weeks or so back.Actually towards the last test I think they were having fun about all the sledging than any serious abuses being hurled... I have always been against the type of sledging that seems to be championed by the Aussie teams since the time I have started watching cricket but what Aggers is saying now can be applicable to any team.. Like Jarrod Kimber wrote, "sledging and understanding the limits is a very Aussie thing, and u need to have grown up playing there to understand what is ok and what is not ok to be said.. " And given that all teams are equally bad at this sledging now, most of these guys dont even know where to draw the line and that is why it all gets a little too ugly...