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[FattusCattus]

Not so much a sledge as a statement of intent. I'm sure I read in Simon Hughes' excellent book - 'A Lot of Hard Yakka'  that he had a pretty untalented but very eccentric teammate in the Middx 2nd XI called Winky Robbins. He came up against a young, rampant and vocal Merv Hughes in an innocuous game and afer a few volleys of abuse, Winky announced loudly to Merv - "I'm going to (No Swearing Please) you all round the park, you hairy blighter"

One of the few times I believe Merv was speechless!

[RageofKlugman]

KP at the non strikers describing Yuvraj as "Very slow, no turn" to his batting partner.

That would have been even better if KP didn't have an uncanny knack for getting out to rubbish left-arm spinners.

[Karlo84]

an average sledge with an above average comeback that had no comeback!

our first slip said to the batsman who had played and missed umpteen times "You're just not very good are you, mate?" to which his proudly delivered retort was "No, but i've been up all night smashing a girl that is WAY out of my league, so i'll take not being very good today!"

well played, Sir!

p.s. apologies for the sexual reference    - it was on a cricket field though!

[MD2812]

Common in our club we'll talk about the batsman in earshot but not directly to him, every now and then the batsman will pipe up and we celebrate with "that's a nibble"

Enjoyable times