HAHA picked one out out and thaught it happened in every match. Anyways whatever Munaf was saying would not have been understood by Batsmen cos frankly most in Indian team will have trouble picking him up.
Who can ever forget England - India last summer. The jellybean made more headlines than Indian win. And if you find anymore sledging videos try finding common denominator-----the bully teams.
WI in 1980 and 1990 did not had to sledge they used to do so by hitting balls on head and then glaring at you. They hardly said words unless you are cocky dean jones asking Ambrose to remove his sweat band.
Cultural views on sledging
Because cricket is an international sport, opinions on sledging can differ considerably, leading to many cultural misunderstandings and controversies.
England
Sledging was traditionally seen as a prime example of a practice that was "not cricket" (that is, not fair play), and was generally deemed unprofessional. Mild forms of sledging occurred in the English game, but personal attacks were seen as unacceptable. In recent years, English cricket has adopted a more Australian competitive streak, and sledging has become more common. Sledging in English club and village cricket is also common; it ranges from simple questioning of the batsman's skill to doubtful comments about his parentage, his sexuality, or the appearance of his genitals.
Australia & New Zealand
In Australia and New Zealand, sledging is seen as fair game and part of masculine discourse. Adult males commonly insult each other as part of social relations, particularly in sport; they believe that "What's said on the pitch stays on the pitch". In this cultural context, sledging is not seen as a negative issue; those who complain about it are derided as immature and un-masculine.
South Africa
The white South African and Zimbabwean societies are very similar to Australian and New Zealand society, because players sledge each other humorously. However, one big difference in the Southern African context is the sensitivity to racism — racist sledges are deemed unacceptable to a far greater degree than in other nations, though racism is of course not permitted at all in any of the cricketing nations.
West Indies
West Indian teams sometimes use witty sledges on western teams; however, racial or cultural slights are interpreted very negatively.
South Asia
South Asian societies—such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh— have a very strong concept of politeness and keeping face. Personal insults are seen as unacceptable and uneducated. When cricket was first introduced to the westernised elites of South Asian society, these groups adopted the concepts of fair play in the traditional English sense when playing cricket. Players raised in such a cricketing subculture consequently found it difficult to accept sledging in the Australasian fashion. Controversies have risen out of these differing cultural mores.
In recent years, however, South Asian teams have become adept at sledging in their own fashion. One notable example is Sri Lanka's team, which has used Australian coaches and coaching methods since the mid-1990s. Western commentators have often challenged South Asian teams on their supposed claims of sledging innocence, pointing at the common on-field use of Hindi and Urdu phrases that neither other players nor umpires can understand.
You do sledge, that's the bottom line.
And by the way....
Sourav Ganguly, captain of the Indian team in the early 2000s ( if you haven't heard of him), used the Australian style of sledging on the Australians in the 2000-2001 series. His encounters with the Australian captain, Steve Waugh, were played up in both the Indian and the Australian media to such an extent that Ganguly was called the "bad boy of international cricket" in the Australian media.
