New Delhi, Sep 2: With franchise cricket resulting in players from different countries playing together, players are losing their aggression as they feel friendly towards players from rival countries.

SLEDGING – The art of talking, to, with, or at an opponent with the expressed intent to negatively impact his/her performance. Some of the greatest athletes of all time used this strategy – the most ...

3. Rod Marsh & Ian Botham: In an Ashes match Ian Botham arrived at the wicket to a bit of cheek from the Aussie keeper. Rod Marsh said, "So how's your wife and my kid's?". Botham replied "Wife's fine.

Mark Taylor has joined Stuart Clark, the Australia fast bowler, in saying the game could become boring if measures are taken to ban sledging and confrontation during matches. The ICC has asked teams ...

Sledging has been a hot topic of late—and not just because of the recent arrival of snow in Britain. The recent series between Australia and India saw tensions rise in the middle. Some found it ...

The much-awaited Border-Gavaskar series hasn't even started and there have already been several predictions of yet another whitewash, not in favour of Australia, being the most likely result.

Fast bowler Sreesanth, who missed India's previous two Test series, is delighted to be back in the Test squad for the home series against South Africa. "It was disappointing to miss out on Tests ...

Australia paceman Mitchell Johnson believes Jimmy Anderson has no intention of following through on his own suggestion that sledging should be ditched from the Ashes series, and labelled the England ...