England missing a trick
The Observer Sports Monthly magazine yesterday featured a small article talking about some of the "Bolly Wags" - girlfriends of some of the Indian cricket team currently doing so brilliantly against England. It appears from the article that MS Dhoni's girlfriend, Deepika Padukone, has previously gone out with Yuvraj Singh. So given that all else seems to have failed, I hope that England have at least tried to rile Yuvraj about this - perhaps they have and that's why they've only got him out once in four innings!
If reports are to be believed, KP's not averse to the odd comment to try to get under opponents skin with relationship comments - he famously told Shane Watson "you're just upset because no one loves you any more" when he'd just been dumped by his girlfriend.
Given how India are performing at the moment, a few comments to Yuvraj about how Miss Padukone considers MS to be a superior partner surely wouldn't go amiss. And, again if media stories are to be believed, when Dhoni comes in there's scope to rile him too, as various commentators have described it as "difficult to keep up" with who she's seeing.
Some are worried about sledging and it's role in cricket. But, in my opinion, anything none-physical goes and if England aren't having a few words when Yuvraj and MS are batting then they're missing a trick....after all, things can't go any worse, can they?
3 comments:
Sledging should be banned from cricket and no one should condone it.
There does seem to be a ground swell of opinion against sledging at the moment, but I'm not sure what the issue is. Of course anything racist etc is a complete no no, but other than that I can't see the issue.
What I can understand is having a few extra regulations about sleding at youth level, but when dealing with adults, and especially in more serious cricket, doesn't anything that might give you even the slightest advantage go?
For example, Flintoff's comment to Tino Best a couple of years back telling him to mind the windows which induced him into another slog and created a wicket. Simple and effective.
I must say that I find sledging tiresome and ungentlemanly. Most of the comments are made to try to get the opponent to lose their temper that cannot be healthy for the "Spirit of the Game" that all cricketers sign up to. In my role as an umpire I do my best to cut it out without making too much of an issue of it.
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