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How to deal with an irate Aussie

07-Nov-2013
Hamish Blair/Getty Images

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If young cricketers want a lesson in how to deal with sledging, this photo ought to do the trick better than a thousand words on the subject.
In the Mumbai Test in 2001, Rahul Dravid pulled Damien Fleming to square leg, where Michael Slater dived to take what looked like a spectacular catch. But the third umpire gave Dravid not out after replays suggested the ball appeared to come off the turf. Slater, upset at umpire S Venkatraghavan for not taking his word on the catch, argued with the official and then with Dravid and Tendulkar.
However, if you review the footage of the incident, you can see that, Slater swears at Dravid as he walks away. The batsman, it seems, responds with "You too".
Tendulkar cracked 76 and 65 in the two innings - two of his finest sub-hundred knocks in Tests - but Australia, led by crackling hundreds from Matthew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist, romped to their 16th consecutive Test win. The juggernaut would be halted in the next Test in Kolkata, though, as VVS Laxman and Dravid engineered a glorious fightback.