There might be a huge ongoing debate on wthether SLEDGING should be banned by ICC or not.What really should be banned is -punishing the player who retaliated while sparing the one who provoked (sledged).Either punish both or neither.I personally feel that we,the Indians should be happy with the foreign players SLEDGING the indian players simply because :
- The world saw Shreesanth hit a six straight over the head of Andre Nel the very next delivery after Nel had challenged Shreesanth to show his guts.Nel & other South Africans had their tongue out like a toad.
- In a test match with England, when Zaheer Khan was batting,"jelly beans" were thrown on his creeze from the slip region & he had a verbal exchange with Kevin Peterson. The result : Zaheer struk back with 5 wkts in England innings forcing them to loose the match.He had also featured in an important partnership in which he had contributed 28 runs.
- In the 1st ever 20-20 world cup,Andrew Flintoff tried to upset Yuvraj with words, & guess what happenned next, 6 sixes in an over of Stuart Broad whose over followed Flintoff 's.He went on to break & make many records in that match like 50 runs in12 balls etc.
- when the Harbhajjan & Symonds feud came to light in the test series with the Aussies,to follow was the CB series(1-day), Harbhajjan dismissed Symonds in almost every match.
So, history has it that the indians came all guns blazing whenever it was required.Whenever they have tried to hit us with words,our sense of pride has hammered them back with action.
Hence,Don't dare to mess with the Indians through cheap acts of SLEDGING, that too for your own good........
