12 Best Cricket insults- Dare you mess with me

12 Best Cricket insults- Dare you mess with me: Sledging is what cricketers call the mocking insults swapped between players out in the middle. It has long been an associate of the game. While Australians are the masters of the trade, almost all cricketing sides have started taking part in sledging now. Players resort to sledging in order to distract their opponents’; to break the focus. Sometimes, sledging and banters sound funny and interesting. But at other times, they just turn ugly.

We have listed some of the funniest sledging incidents from the world of cricket 12 Best Cricket insults- Dare you mess with me:

1. Shaun Pollock and Ricky Ponting:

After Ponting was struggling to middle the ball Pollock said “It’s red, it’s round and weighs about five ounces.” Ponting hit the next ball out of the ground. He jibed, “You know what it looks like, go and find it.”

2. Rod Marsh and Ian Botham: 

When Botham came to the crease Aussie wicket-keeper Rod Marsh said cheerfully: “How’s your wife and my kids?”

Botham is said to have replied: “The wife’s fine. The kids are retarded.”

3. Daryll Cullinan and Shane Warne:

As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had been waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. “Looks like you spent it eating,” Cullinan retorted.

4. Merv Hughes and Robin Smith:

During the Lord’s Test of 1989, Australian fast bowler Merv Hughes was in the middle of a purple patch and beating the bat regularly. Frustrated as another ball went past the edge of the bat of England batsman Robin Smith, Hughes said, “Mate, you can’t bat.” Naturally, Smith dispatched the next ball for four and responded, “Hey Merv, we’d make a fine pair. I can’t bat and you can’t bowl.”

5. Merv Hughes and Graeme Hick:

Merv Hughes was an enthusiastic sledger and targeted Graeme Hick with his venom, viewing him as weak at the mental side of the game. “Mate,” he said, “If you just turn the bat over, you’ll find the instructions on the other side.”

6. Glenn McGrath (bowling to portly Zimbabwean chicken farmer Eddo Brandes):

McGrath insultingly asked Eddo Brandes, “Hey Eddo, why are you so fat?”

Eddo Brandes: “Because everytime I make love to your wife, she throws me a cookie.”

7. Merv Hughes and Javed Miandad:

During 1991 Adelaide Test, Javed called Merv a fat bus conductor. A few balls later Merv dismissed Javed. “Tickets please”, Merv called out as he ran past the departing batsman.

8. Merv Hughes and 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.

“This is my island, my culture. Don’t you be staring at me. In my culture we just bowl.” Merv didn’t reply, but after he dismissed him he announced to the batsman: “In my culture we just say [f** off].”

9. James Ormond and Mark Waugh:

Ormond had just come out to bat on an Ashes tour and was greeted at the crease by Mark Waugh (brother of Australian captain Steve): “Mate, what are you doing here? There is no way you’re good enough to play for England.”

Ormond responded, “Maybe not, but at least I’m the best player in my family (referring to Steve).”

10. Ian Healey and Arjuna Ranatunga:

Yet another Australian act and this time overweight Sri Lankan batsman Arjuna Ranatunga was the victim. Shane Warne, trying to tempt the batsman out of his crease asked what would it take to get the plump character to drive off the front foot.

Wicket-keeper Ian Healey murmured from behind, “Put a Mars Bar on a good length. That should do it.”

11. Malcolm Marshall and David Boon:

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?”

12. Fred Trueman and Subba Row:

Fred is bowling, the batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip, right between Raman Subba Row’s legs. Fred doesn’t say a word. At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologizes sheepishly. “I should’ve kept my legs together”, Truemann responded “So should your mother”.