Nowadays, cricket is entertaining on more than one level. Sure there's the conventional sporting contest, but a new game has emerged in recent decades - a game that goes well beyond athletic ability (ahhm, the term 'athletic' used loosely as applied to cricketers - see below).
The new game is the exploitation of an opposition player's mental fragility - otherwise known as 'sledging'!
Warnie possessed an uncanny ability to be a master of both. But even a master gets tested, as Warne was by South African Daryll Cullinan, aka Warne's bunny:
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.
In a separate match, Ian Healy continued the food theme when Warne was attempting to get, plump Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga out of his crease for a drive - Healy stated "Warnie, put a Mars Bar on a good length, that should do it."
What is the best sledge you've heard, either in professional sport, or at a local level?
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