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Hello,

What exactly does sledging (sp) mean on a cricket field ?

- Deepak

I will get a lot of flames but I think that sledging is not that bad. As cricket
gets more professional it is bound to increase. Look at professional
basketball - trask talking is very common. Barkley, Jordan, etc. are all great
at it. One of the greatest ever cricket teams - Ian Chapell's Australians were
also masters at this art.

OK, I know cricket is a gentelman's game - blah! blah!
But that's my opinion.

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:       I agree with you. Since professionalism has increased
:       it is bound to become more common. You have to cope
:       with it nd get on with your play. Also it is the
:       Umpires who have to decide when to draw the line.

Just reflect on the above for a moment, and one realizes that what has been
said above makes no sense.  Just what does "professionalism" mean to you guys?
Does it mean that "professionals" in other aspects (such as accountants,
programmers, etc.) necessarily "sledge" to get ahead as well?  IMO, it is the
acceptance of it (thanks to players like McEnroe, Connors, Ian Chappel, Larry
Bird, etc.) that causes such behavior to become commonplace.  Players for many
decades have been "professionals" without necessarily sledging all the time.

If you and I didn't lure these folks into "doing anything to WIN", but just
"playing the best they can", such behavior would not be so commonplace.

If Michael Jordan were to punch a referee during a tantrum, he'd be back play-
ing in no time.  Whereas, I'd like to think that if one of the top cricketers
did the same to an umpire, he'd be banned from playing again.  I, for one,
would like it to remain that way.  I think tennis almost lost it during the
early 80's, but thanks to prominence of players like Lendl, Becker, Wilander,
Edberg, etc. the sport seems to have survived well.

Let me clarify that I am NOT talking about competition being bad.  I am talking
about the difference between driving to be the best (man/woman/team) as
opposed to being the highest-ranked-based-on-results.

Pankaj Shah;   (408)-447-4658.

Does ne1 know how to get an account from a place which provides accounts
for general public(ie nyx.cs.du.edu, but apparently its shutdown)

Thanx...

Dipak.

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|> Hello,
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|> What exactly does sledging (sp) mean on a cricket field ?
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|> - Deepak

It's when Ian Chappell makes the new batsman feel nice and welcome.

Chris
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: You surely don't mean Larry Bird, do you?

Yes, I surely do.  BTW, I made sure that I had the highest regard for the
talents of the various individuals I named in my post, so I do not believe
that Bird was an average or below-average basketball player.  It's just that
the influx of the millions of (dollars, pounds, rupees, etc.) into the sports
have allowed people who have nothing to do with the game to influence how,
when, where the players play.  I mean, if I as a player could get a bonus of
LOTS-OF-BUCKS for WINNING alone, some of the lines regarding preserving the
integrity of the game start to get blurry real fast . . .

There is another thread about a potential rivalry between SRT & Kambli.  All
the humorously emotional claims aside, what do YOU think would happen if one
of the sponsors offered tremendous wealth & fame to the ONE player with the
highest average?  Remember that these are very impressionable twenty year-
olds we are talking about, so once there is the odd article about a question-
able runout or a suspicious declaration of an innings, egos can go haywire
very quickly.  Gavaskar & Kapil were both committed to the same team's success,
and yet their egos let all the b/s come between them.  I hope the same does
not happen to VK & SRT.

Back to Larry Bird, he used to get caught pushing people under the basket
MANY times by the referees.  He used to DO it tens of times more frequently.
He was an extremely hard-working, highly-talented basketball player, who
did ANYthing to help his team win.

Pankaj Shah;   (408)-447-4658.

Then wait till it snows (happens a lot at the start and end of the season in Scotland).

Sit on the tray at the top of the pitch and get your teammates to give you a good shove

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!

And that's what we scots cricketers mean by sledging.