Michael Clarke sledging James Anderson, crossed the line?

[VRV Singh]

Bailey couldnt do it properly despite team orders to all be sobs. He had such a big smile on his face when chatting to england and seemed to laugh at their replies, nice chap. Clearly Clarke has been reading too many ashes history books. He is trying to copy Alan Border and his rejuvenation of aussie team. As Border took over an awful aussie team who looked doomed, so when they went to england for ashes, to stop the rot he decided his team must become sobs and be a nasty bunch. They before were quite friendly and chatty with england. But he made them nasty and in their faces and rude. Gower was good mates with AB and said hello good morning as you do. AB blanked him and ignored talking to him for whole series, not even a good morning, rest of team followed suit in this attitude. Gower admitted to being taken aback by being ignored like this. Clark trying same thing now to turn them around. Copying AB! On Clarkes sledge it was spasticated and Anderson was not effected in the least, not one bit. It made Clark look an idiot. Game was won and number frigging 11 batting, whats the point. Whole point of sledging is to have a trace of truth or humour in it, something witty at least. Just saying we gonna break your arm is vulgar and spasitcated. Rubbish sledge. In fact would not call it sledge just abuse

Most "sledging" will be like that now. Not particularly clever just outright abuse. Clarke's just happened to be broadcast. I liked Johnson's cheesy smile taking the mick out of Root but when you have thickos like David Warner most of it is going to be mindless effing and blinding. In this contrived outlook they are certainly targeting Anderson particularly. History there.

[helperononline]

Break an arm with what? 130ks? :cantstop:

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[Trundler27]

Both these teams are largely classless.... so no big surprise there.... i just liked the look on jimmy's face when clarke said that lol. Unfortunately even our team is getting a few such psychos now even though i don't mind a 25-75 mix of punks and gentlemen in our team since we have to deal with such teams time and again

[GoldenSun]

Love the way they play with aggression :). And hey, the Aussies backed it up, so they can chirp for now(still 2 weeks left before the Adelaide test.

[Switchblade]

Clarke reacted to Anderson threat to Bailey - Warne http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/theashes/10472933/Michael-Clarke-reacted-to-James-Anderson-threatening-to-punch-George-Bailey-in-the-face-claims-Shane-Warne.html Shane Warne has claimed James Anderson threatened to punch George Bailey in the face during the ill-tempered end to the first Ashes Test. Warne has said Anderson's threat prompted Michael Clarke to jump in and defend his player. It was then that Channel 9 microphones picked up Clarke saying to Anderson "Get ready for a broken f------ arm". The International Cricket Council fined Clarke 20 per cent of his match fee for that comment on Monday and if proof emerges that Anderson made the threat to Bailey, he too could face punishment from the game's governing body. As a Channel 9 commentator, Warne has access to the audio from the stump microphone and claimed on Twitter on Monday he had heard Anderson's threat to Bailey, who was fielding at short leg. "@MClarke23 [Clarke's twitter name] stuck up for his debutant Bailey as he should have too as capt after Anderson said he wanted to punch Bailey in the face!" wrote Warne. "I think it's a disgrace that @MClarke23 has been fined. What about what Jimmy Anderson said to Bailey, which wasn't heard. Unfortunately only Clarke's reaction to Anderson's was heard live, we all heard Anderson's sledge that led to Clarke reactin! To me it should just stay out in the middle. They all shook hands had a giggle & moved on. By fining Clarke it's made a big deal out of it." David Warner described Anderson as "arrogant" and stated he will not tone down his sledging despite criticism from Andy Flower that he has been "disrespectful" to the England team. Warner was speaking at Brisbane airport before news of Jonathan Trott's return home with a stress related illness was announced. Anderson is one of the most notorious sledgers in the England team and had several exchanges with Australian players during the first Test. Warner said Anderson has the right to be arrogant with the ball, but not the bat. "You can say some people are arrogant, on the field you play with arrogance, he is definitely one of those players who is a world class bowler and he's got the skills - he can be arrogant. "He's deserved it, he's got 300 Test wickets but when he comes out to bat it's a different story because he's not that good at plain fast bowling and the guys wanted to play a bit of Mickey Mouse with him. It's quite funny when the bowlers come in because you know from our bowling point of view, and same thing with them, you try and bounce their bowlers. "We know he likes to give a little bit of lip and we all do but sometimes he doesn't take it. He doesn't talk when he's out there batting but when he's bowling he's always full of talk. It's good to get a bit of banter on top of him as well." Warner's tense relationship with the England team stretches back to the incident in June when he punched Joe Root in a Birmingham bar and he knows he will be the subject of abuse when the series resumes in Adelaide on Dec 5. "I'm ready to tackle whatever they throw at me, we're all professionals, we all should cop it on the chin," Warner said. "You're copping it from all angles whether you're in form or you're not in form. I think it's gotten to them a little bit. "We saw with Mitch's spell as well. The bounce and pace on that wicket I'll say it probably scared them a little bit more. Come Adelaide we'll need a different plan because it's not as fast and bouncy but come Perth it'll be another thing like the bumper barrage in Queensland."

[GoldenSun]

Lehmann rejects sledging summit

Australia coach Darren Lehmann has rejected suggestions of talks with England to set boundaries for acceptable sledging during the Ashes series. His comments come a day after his counterpart Andy Flower said he would seriously consider a meeting in the aftermath of a heated Brisbane Test and Jonathan Trott's withdrawal from the tour. While insisting it had nothing to do with Trott's departure due to a stress-related illness, England were unhappy about Australian batsman David Warner's public description of Trott's dismissals as "pretty weak". Flower stressed the importance of "playing the game of cricket on the pitch" at the same time he expressed hope that Trott's exit would not become grist for the Ashes banter mill that chugged away incessantly at the Gabba. "I'll have a think about it," Flower said at the press conference where Trott's departure was announced when asked if talks with Lehmann were necessary. "I think both sides must concentrate on playing the game of cricket on the pitch. In a competitive way but finding the right balance. "I don't think Trott should be raised on the pitch. We're there to play cricket. A balance has got to be found on the pitch between competitiveness and not overstepping the line." But Lehmann was not prepared to entertain thoughts of a meeting, saying that while he wished Trott well in his recovery, Flower's team had offered plenty to say to his players in Brisbane and also during the earlier Ashes encounter in England. Australia's players feel their aggressive attitude in the first Test had contributed to their victory and Lehmann seemed in no mood to dilute it. "From my point of view, Andy looks after his side and I look after my side, that's what you do in the game of cricket. I played cricket with Andy at South Australia, I talk to him all the time, but at the end of the day, he's in control of the England cricket team and we've got to try and get the Ashes back,'' Lehmann said on the Adelaide radio station 5AA. "Trott has gone home and we hope he gets well soon. We do care about that but we're still going to play really hard cricket." Warner avoided a sanction by both the ICC and Cricket Australia for his comments but has been counselled about his words by Lehmann and team management. He withdrew from a scheduled radio commitment in Sydney on Tuesday and his media appearances are expected to be minimal for the rest of the series. The tourists were far less perturbed about Michael Clarke's threatening on-field words to conclude a confrontation between James Anderson and George Bailey in the final minutes of the first Test, even though their inadvertent broadcast by Channel Nine drew an ICC fine for Australia's captain. "I was happy that 'Bails' gave him a bit back, that's part and parcel of the game. They're all grown men out there, they will work it out,'' Lehmann said. "I just know we copped a lot in England and we didn't shy away from that. That's what happens when you go away, so I don't see what the difference is from England to here. We're on the other end of it, that's just the way it goes. Both teams play hard and as long as it stays on the field I'm happy with that." James Sutherland, the CA chief executive, has meanwhile offered his own message of support to Trott. "All the staff, management and players at Cricket Australia wish Jonathan Trott well," he said. "We hope to see him fit and healthy and back on the cricket field soon."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2013-14/content/story/693503.html Would have done the same thing :).