The Ashes - Sledges

ASHES TOP 5 SLEDGES BIGPOND SPORT Ian Healy, placing a fielder yards away at cover when Nasser Hussain was batting: Ian Healy (Aus): Let's have you right under Nasser's nose. Rod Marsh (Aus): How's your wife and my kids? Ian Botham (Eng): The wife's fine. The kids are retarded. Mark Waugh (Aus): Mate, what are you doing out here? There's no way you're good enough to play for England. Jimmy Ormond (Eng): Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my own family. Australia's captain in the Bodyline series of 1932-33, responding to Douglas Jardine's complaint that a slip fielder had sworn at him: Bill Woodfull (Aus): All right, which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard? Merv Hughes cursed Robin Smith that he: Merv Hughes (Aus): You can't #$%#ing bat!" Smith's reply was to hit Hughes for four and follow up with a quick: Robin Smith (Eng): We make a good pair. I can't &*#@ing bat and you can't $*#@ing bowl! Sledging opportunity? England paceman James Anderson recently posed naked for gay magazine Attitude. Did you know? The first major public streak is believed to have occured during an Ashes Test. In 1975, Michael Angelow, a British navy cook, leapfrogged over a set of stumps, at Lords, wearing just his plimsolls and a smile.