Cricket Verbal Duals !!

[Legglancer]

While Sarwan and Mcgrath's now "infamous showdown"
is questioning the social ethics and spirit of the contemporary players, I came accross a sample of cricket stories from a bygone era where life was somewhat diffrent.

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"Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero."


* Viv Richards to Sunil Gavaskar at Madras 1983. 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!


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Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a
superb outswinger, and Thomas said "It's red, round and weighs about 5 1/2
ounces."


Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground for a 6 and replies,
"Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it!"


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Fred Trueman bowling. The batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip,
passes right between Raman Subba Row's legs and crosses boundary. Fred
doesn't say a word.


At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologises sheepishly.
"I should've kept my legs together, Fred". The reply is classic Trueman,
"Not you son, Your mother should've!"

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Greg Thomas was bowling to Viv Richards in a county game. Viv missed a
superb outswinger, and Thomas said "It's red, round and weighs about 5 1/2
ounces."


Next ball Viv hits Greg Thomas out of the ground for a 6 and replies,
"Greg, you know what it looks like. Go ahead and find it!"

This was a classic incident, but wasn't it after Viv had been beaten several times?

 

[Legglancer]

To be honest, I really do not know. It is a good one nevertheless. :duh:

 

[V Reddy]

This one was from the great man ,Sidhu. After he hit Warne for a four which went in the Aussie dressing room direction , Sidhu came towards Warne and said " You should be up there in that dressing room, you pumpkin " . Warne didn't know what to say . It hapened during India-Australia series in India in 1998.

 

[Legglancer]

Pumpkin ..... Hilarious !

 

[V Reddy]

Pumpkin ..... Hilarious !

I came to know about this from Slater who said this when he was commentating during Natwest Series and was asked to say a few words about Sidhu as he became famous there.

 

[Legglancer]

More good ones !

This one is from Macgrath too ....

"Why are you so fat?" - Glenn McGrath to Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes.
"Because every time I #&$!@ your wife, she gives me a biscuit." - Brandes's reply.

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"You don't get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat #$&!%." - Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy after Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga
asked for a runner during a one-day match.

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"Can't bowl, can't throw." - Nine network cameraman Joe Previtera after a wayward return by Australian bowler Scott Muller. Originally attributed to
Shane Warne.

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"Thanks, mate. You've just dropped the World Cup." - Attributed to captain Steve Waugh to South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs after he dropped a
chance from Waugh in the semi-final of the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Waugh denies saying it.

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"We don't want you here, get out of my ground!" - Yorkshire bowler Steve Kirby to Steve Waugh in an English county match.
"No, I won't, this is my favourite pitch. And who are you, the *#@%& mayor?" - Waugh's reply.

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"The cheque's in the mail." - An SCG spectator to Pakistan's Salim Malik after he was dismissed in the final Test match of the 1995 series. Malik had
made a comeback after being embroiled in a match-fixing scandal.

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"These people have not come to watch you bowl. They have come to watch me bat." - England's W. G. Grace, reportedly by way of explanation
for his refusal to leave the crease when dismissed.

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"No need to sledge me. I've been sledged more times than you've had ****es." - India's Sunil Gavaskar replying to a Simon O'Donnell sledge.

 

[royGilchrist]

good thread...

On Imran's first tour to the WI, when he bowled a bouncer to Viv, and went down the pitch to stare at Viv, Viv came down the pitch and said "next time you do that and I will shove this bat down your throat'.

A good one from tennis, wimbledon. McEnroe was was playing Guy Forget (the year Mac reached the semis to lose to Agassi, Agassi's first grand slam). In the stands there was a guy with a big sign saying 'Big Mac, stuffs french fries'.

 

[Tim]

Dion Nash & Ronnie Irani supposedly had a cracker where apparently the 'f' word was used many times during one of Nash's spells back in NZ's tour of England 1999.

I think Adam Parore & Venkatesh Prasad almost came to blows back in 1998 when India toured here after Prasad shouldered Parore while he was taking a single.

 

[lord_of_darkness]

LOl im enjoyign every sentece of all this .. keep it coming , im liking it

 

[V Reddy]

During Tendulkar's first series, Pakistan bowlers were consistently bowling bouncers at him and sledging and in one Aaqib Javed over , Sachin came up to him and said " why are you angry with me , what have i done to you ? (can't remember it but something like that)"

 

[Tim]

I've seen Tendulkar cop alot of abuse at times, im surprised he seems to remain so calm. I have seen him make a few comments at times at some bowlers, but he does the right thing and lets the bat do the talking.

 

[krkode]

I always loved the one with Aamir Sohail and Venkatesh Prasad, World Cup Quarter Finals 1996.

Apparently, it was all in good will. Sohail cracks Prasad for consecutive fours, and then says to him, "Come have lunch with me tonight?"

And the next ball, the off stump is gone! :O

 

[V Reddy]

I always loved the one with Aamir Sohail and Venkatesh Prasad, World Cup Quarter Finals 1996.

Apparently, it was all in good will. Sohail cracks Prasad for consecutive fours, and then says to him, "Come have lunch with me tonight?"

And the next ball, the off stump is gone! :O

I don't think he said that.It didn't look to me like that way as he showed bat in the direction in which he hit the ball for four as if to say to put a fielder there and the next ball his off stump was uprooted. Then Prasad showed him the way to the way to the dressing room

 

[krkode]

I don't think he said that.It didn't look to me like that way as he showed bat in the direction in which he hit the ball for four as if to say to put a fielder there and the next ball his off stump was uprooted. Then Prasad showed him the way to the way to the dressing room

I didn't think so, either. But I was looking at a Prasad interview on some site and when asked what really went on between them, he said that Sohail said that...

I found it on http://208.46.217.55:133/

Not that it's really a "verbal" duel, but oh well :P

 

[luckyeddie]

The one that sticks in my mind (I think I've mentioned it before) is a little-reported one told to me when I went to a cricket club dinner back in about 1969.

The guest of honour was Mike Smedley (Notts) and I had a chat and a beer with him after the dinner. The conversation came round to 'sledging' - and (allegedly) the following conversation once took place...

<Mike Smedley> (on being 'bounced' a couple of times by 'Fiery' Fred Trueman) "Is that all you've got, Fred?"
<Fred Trueman> "Fook off!"

Says it all, really.

 

[aussie_beater]

One that I read about was -

"No need to sledge me.I have been sledged more times then you have had ****es" ....Sunil Gavaskar replying to a Simon O'Donnell sledge.