Sreesanth looking at a fine or even possible suspension?

[DomainK]

Well done to sree. Thats how you deal with characters like Smith. Either they bully you or you bully them. There is no middle ground. We have learned over the years that gentlemanly behavior is often mistaken for cowardice by oppositions like Australia, SA, England, Pakistan etc. Not everyone is Tendulkar who can pay back with interest in pure cricketing arrogance.

[Manny_Pacquiao]

dileep's twitter: Beauty of it being that it's not even a level 1 offence. about 9 hours ago via web The sledge: "None of us like you. We all think you're arrogant. And it's not just us. Even your teammates have told us." about 9 hours ago via web Great sledges aren't about wives or mothers. It's about touching the really raw nerve. Sreesanth did that. Take a bow. #cricket #Durban about 9 hours ago via web I never credited Sreesanth with quick wit. But if the sledge story is true, he deserves a share of the man-of-the-match award. Pure class. about 9 hours ago via web @tunkuv or even Sreesanth for the superb sledge to Smith yesterday. "Even your teammates think you're arrogant".

[ravishingravi]

So, graeme will also have to go for pointing his bat. No ?

[spectre]

Is Sreesanth smart enough to say that. I doubt or maybe he said something more embarrassing to Smith and smith had to cover it up

[flamy]

Well done to sree. Thats how you deal with characters like Smith. Either they bully you or you bully them. There is no middle ground. We have learned over the years that gentlemanly behavior is often mistaken for cowardice by oppositions like Australia' date=' SA, England, Pakistan etc. [b']Not everyone is Tendulkar who can pay back with interest in pure cricketing arrogance.

:isalute:

[flamy]

Is Sreesanth smart enough to say that. I doubt or maybe he said something more embarrassing to Smith and smith had to cover it up

Sree is cleverer than he looks :cantstop: And, who knows it might as well be Sehwag or Goddy pulling the strings in the background :winky:

[Watson87]

dileep's twitter: Beauty of it being that it's not even a level 1 offence. about 9 hours ago via web The sledge: "None of us like you. We all think you're arrogant. And it's not just us. Even your teammates have told us." about 9 hours ago via web Great sledges aren't about wives or mothers. It's about touching the really raw nerve. Sreesanth did that. Take a bow. #cricket #Durban about 9 hours ago via web I never credited Sreesanth with quick wit. But if the sledge story is true, he deserves a share of the man-of-the-match award. Pure class. about 9 hours ago via web @tunkuv or even Sreesanth for the superb sledge to Smith yesterday. "Even your teammates think you're arrogant".

This is it. That's what he said? Smith is such a wuss, he needs a chata from Bhajji, guess Smith is Appamno2:--D

[daryl1985]

Supposedly this is what was said - "None of us like you. We all think you're arrogant. And it's not just us. Even your teammates have told us

:haha: If that is the sledge, that is quality. But i've always thought that Graeme Smith always knew he was a c*** and that he had few fans. He seems to be a character that a lot of players dislike.

[achilles]

If there is anyone out there who thinks Sreesanth should be punished, he might like to view this- fqeyeovICzI&feature=related And this is just one video. He did have a lot to say last time round and continues to have an odd leak in the ear. We didn't get emotionally hurt and stuff. We hung out there and fought it out like men.

[saneindian]

Looks like Sree did say a few nasty things to Smith. Sree did a McGrath on Smith on Day 3 of the Durban Test. To start with, Sree was all poetic about the lefthander’s ex girlfriend Minki and Smithey’s little pinki. But once the Mallu Maniac wrapped Smith on his fingers, he went over and asked if this was one of his ‘special needs’ that his girlfriend, a special needs school teacher in Cape Town, took care of for him? Sure it was personal, as Harris pointed out later in the press conference. But then, as long as it gets his wicket, who cares? There’s more. Later in the evening, Sreesanth, Vijay and a couple of local Indians were out for dinner at a pub where Harris and a few South Africans landed up. Not too many words were exchanged. But every time Harris so much as glanced at them, the Indian group would burst out in guffaws and loud laughter. Just enough to rub it in but not enough to go crying to the media about. http://mumbaimirror.com/article/59/201012312010123102545888653ba79c9/Living-up-to-the-Aussie-legend.html

[hari504504]

There’s more. Later in the evening, Sreesanth, Vijay and a couple of local Indians were out for dinner at a pub where Harris and a few South Africans landed up. Not too many words were exchanged. But every time Harris so much as glanced at them, the Indian group would burst out in guffaws and loud laughter. Just enough to rub it in but not enough to go crying to the media about. http://mumbaimirror.com/article/59/201012312010123102545888653ba79c9/Living-up-to-the-Aussie-legend.html

I worry for them when they do stuff like that on someone else's turf...Sreesanth,Vijay etc aren't exactly Walsh and Ambrose for anyone to be physcially intimidated - that too in a country like South Africa..a bar brawl could end careers..

[achilles]

Hmm. Maybe true, but Mirror isn't the most reliable source around.

[The Outsider]

^ Sounds more believable than the 'all of us think you are arrogant' story.

[achilles]

^ I doubt Sreesanth could say things like that. He can do a lot of things on the ground, but I doubt he'd cross the line so grossly. And had he done so, I doubt Smith and Harris would've let it go without registering a protest with the Match Ref.

[King Tendulkar]

Got him out. What ever he said worked as he sledged him out. Well done sree

[HowardRoark]

I doubt Mumbai Mirror's version - to sledge what Sree supposedly said, one has to gather such minute detail about the personal life of opposition players and their families before hand. I am not aware of any such information about Smith's GF being available in the public space and I do not think any Indian players would go on about searching for those information and preplan the 'sledge'. But but if it was indeed true, what Sree said is not something to be proud of.

[saneindian]

BTW I realised that the guy who has written the piece on Sree's sledging is the fakeiplplayer who is traveling to SA and is covering the series for MumbaiMirror. Not sure how correct the version is, but going by today's press conference when Smith said he had complained to the Match Ref about Sree's sledges and had also talked to Dhoni about that incident and then Dhoni saying Sree should not cross the limit, there could be some truth in the story.

[DomainK]

I doubt Mumbai Mirror's version - to sledge what Sree supposedly said, one has to gather such minute detail about the personal life of opposition players and their families before hand. I am not aware of any such information about Smith's GF being available in the public space and I do not think any Indian players would go on about searching for those information and preplan the 'sledge'. But but if it was indeed true, what Sree said is not something to be proud of.

One good reason not to believe Mumbai Mirror's story is that it comes from Mumbai Mirror. There are two papers that one should never believe: Mid Day and Mumbai Mirror.

[hari504504]

^ Now when I think about it..I doubt the mirror story too. Our players definitely don't have the guts to walk into a pub in SA and take the mickey out of the saffer players in their presence...and if they did, they certainly are not leaving that place with all their dental assets intact.. :haha:

[Texy]

as long as it's not ball biting or going over the white line on purpose ....I'm ok.... whatever it takes to win the game....