Harbajan cleared of racial abuse accusation

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Should I register a complaint with the ICC about you insulting me?

Yes

In all seriousness I've played cricket most of my life and there is plenty of things you can say with out racial abuseing players, its just not on

[Kip Riptide]

Yes

In all seriousness I've played cricket most of my life and there is plenty of things you can say with out racial abuseing players, its just not on

Agreed.

However, if some of what the journos at work tell me is true (and one of them toured India with the Aussie cricket team a few years back), then the Australians themselves have an extremely poor track record with these things. So what goes around comes around, I guess.

The same people have also told me that Symonds is an absolute **** of a bloke as well.

Shame, cos I really do love the way he plays and the excitement he brings to the game of cricket.

I'm just going to find it a lot more difficult to enjoy watching him play from now on

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Agreed.

However, if some of what the journos at work tell me is true (and one of them toured India with the Aussie cricket team a few years back), then the Australians themselves have an extremely poor track record with these things. So what goes around comes around, I guess.

The same people have also told me that Symonds is an absolute **** of a bloke as well.

Shame, cos I really do love the way he plays and the excitement he brings to the game of cricket.

I'm just going to find it a lot more difficult to enjoy watching him play from now on

Just watch the Vics they just beat WA with a ball to spare needing 10 of the last over with 2 wicks in hand

[Kip Riptide]

Just watch the Vics they just beat WA with a ball to spare needing 10 of the last over with 2 wicks in hand

Nice! Who made the runs?

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Nice! Who made the runs?

Dave Hussey and Cam White me two fav players 40 odd each

[David O'Leary]

The whole thing is pretty disgraceful really.

I've always lived by the mantra "you give some you get some".

We all know that the Aussies have been sledging the absolute crap out of teams for years, and as soon as someone barks back, Symonds goes crying to mummy. How old is he? 7?I've always loved him as a cricketer, but this incident has made me lose a lot of respect for him.

One of those rare situations in world sport that makes me feel not so proud to be an Australian.

There is never a place for racism, in or out of sport. Playing cricket myself I go by sledging on the field, while never going personal, just stick to his cricketing abilities, but after the match being able to have a laugh about it with a beer. But if the word 'monkey' was said, It's somebody pushing the boundary (no pun intended )

[SOCCERROO FOX]

There is never a place for racism, in or out of sport. Playing cricket myself I go by sledging on the field, while never going personal, just stick to his cricketing abilities, but after the match being able to have a laugh about it with a beer. But if the word 'monkey' was said, It's somebody pushing the boundary (no pun intended )

I loved sledgeing being a kepper

The 10 best Cricket Sledges (and comebacks) in history

10. Rod Marsh & Ian Botham - When Botham took guard in an Ashes match, Marsh welcomed him to the wicket with the immortal words: "So how's your wife & my kids?"

9. Daryll Cullinan & Shane Warne - As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had Been waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. "Looks like you spent it eating," Cullinan retorted.

8. Robin Smith & Merv Hughes - During 1989 Lords Test Hughes said to Smith after he played & missed: "You can't f**king bat". Smith to Hughes after he smacked him to the boundary - "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can’t f**king bat & you can't f**king bowl."

7. Merv Hughes & Javed Miandad - During 1991 Adelaide Test, Javed called Merv a fat bus conductor. A few balls later Merv dismissed Javed: "Tickets please," Merv called out as he ran past the departing batsman.

6. Merv Hughes & Viv Richards - During a test match in the West Indies, Hughes didn't say a word to Viv, but continued to stare at him after deliveries. "This is my island, my culture. Don’t you be staring at me. In my culture we just bowl." Merv didn't reply, but after he dismissed him he announced to the batsman: "In my culture we just say f**k off."

5. Glenn McGrath to Ramnaresh Sarwan - "So what does Brian Lara's d*ck taste like?"

Sarwan: "I don't know. Ask your wife." McGrath lost it: "If you ever mention my wife again, I'll F***ing rip your F***ing throat out."

4. Malcolm Marshall was bowling to David Boon who had played and missed a couple of times. Marshall: "Now David, Are you going to get out now or am I going to have to bowl around the wicket and kill you?"

3. Ricky Ponting & Shaun Pollock - After going past the outside edge with a couple of deliveries, Pollock told Ponting: "It's red, round & weighs about 5 ounces." Unfortunately for Pollock, the next ball was hammered out of the ground. Ponting to Pollock: "You know what it looks like, now go find it."

2. Fred Trueman - While bowling the batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip,and right between Raman Subba Row's legs. Fred doesn't say a word. At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologises sheepishly. "I should've kept my legs together, Fred". "So should your mother," he replied.

1. And of course you can't forget Ian Healy's legendary comment that was picked up by the Channel 9 microphones when Arjuna Ranatunga called for a runner on a particularly hot night during a one dayer in Sydney... "You don’t get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat c**t!!!"

[David O'Leary]

I loved sledgeing being a kepper

The 10 best Cricket Sledges (and comebacks) in history

10. Rod Marsh & Ian Botham - When Botham took guard in an Ashes match, Marsh welcomed him to the wicket with the immortal words: "So how's your wife & my kids?"

9. Daryll Cullinan & Shane Warne - As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had Been waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. "Looks like you spent it eating," Cullinan retorted.

8. Robin Smith & Merv Hughes - During 1989 Lords Test Hughes said to Smith after he played & missed: "You can't f**king bat". Smith to Hughes after he smacked him to the boundary - "Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can’t f**king bat & you can't f**king bowl."

7. Merv Hughes & Javed Miandad - During 1991 Adelaide Test, Javed called Merv a fat bus conductor. A few balls later Merv dismissed Javed: "Tickets please," Merv called out as he ran past the departing batsman.

6. Merv Hughes & Viv Richards - During a test match in the West Indies, Hughes didn't say a word to Viv, but continued to stare at him after deliveries. "This is my island, my culture. Don’t you be staring at me. In my culture we just bowl." Merv didn't reply, but after he dismissed him he announced to the batsman: "In my culture we just say f**k off."

5. Glenn McGrath to Ramnaresh Sarwan - "So what does Brian Lara's d*ck taste like?"

Sarwan: "I don't know. Ask your wife." McGrath lost it: "If you ever mention my wife again, I'll F***ing rip your F***ing throat out."4. Malcolm Marshall was bowling to David Boon who had played and missed a couple of times. Marshall: "Now David, Are you going to get out now or am I going to have to bowl around the wicket and kill you?"

3. Ricky Ponting & Shaun Pollock - After going past the outside edge with a couple of deliveries, Pollock told Ponting: "It's red, round & weighs about 5 ounces." Unfortunately for Pollock, the next ball was hammered out of the ground. Ponting to Pollock: "You know what it looks like, now go find it."

2. Fred Trueman - While bowling the batsman edges and the ball goes to first slip,and right between Raman Subba Row's legs. Fred doesn't say a word. At the end of the over, Row ambles past Trueman and apologises sheepishly. "I should've kept my legs together, Fred". "So should your mother," he replied.

1. And of course you can't forget Ian Healy's legendary comment that was picked up by the Channel 9 microphones when Arjuna Ranatunga called for a runner on a particularly hot night during a one dayer in Sydney... "You don’t get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat c**t!!!"

What many Aussies don't put is that Botham made it legendary by replying "The wife's fine, but the kid's are retarded"

Opening bowler myself so giving it to tail-end batsmen is always fun

This is what I mean by pushing the boundary with sledging, I'm sure Sarwan must have known what McGrath's wife was going through at the time; but he still went to that level which is going to far.

Another Classic

Glenn McGrath v Eddo Brandes

McGrath was bowling to the Zimbabwe number 11 - who was unable to get his bat anywhere near the ball.

McGrath, frustrated that Brandes was still at the crease, wandered up during one particular over and inquired: "Why are you so fat?"

Quick as a flash, Brandes replied: "Because every time I shag your wife, she gives me a biscuit."

Even the Aussie slip fielders were in hysterics

[acooling08]

i don't understand.

how can an indian guy call someone a monkey?

its like a 50 stone guy calling someone a fat bastard

[Raj]

i don't understand.

how can an indian guy call someone a monkey?

its like a 50 stone guy calling someone a fat bastard

This is a actually a racist comment you fcuking muppet.

[David O'Leary]

i don't understand.

how can an indian guy call someone a monkey?

its like a 50 stone guy calling someone a fat bastard

'Monkey' is more directed at black people e.g Afro-Carribean people like Symonds. But if someone like Lara (a West Indian) would of said it, that would be like 'a 50 stone guy calling someone a fat bastard' thumbup: