The best insults in cricket's history
As cricket's foremost sledging war, the Ashes, gets underway, the Independent has come out with a list of the game's most memorable insults.
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
As cricket's foremost sledging war, the Ashes, gets underway, the Independent has come out with a list of the game's most memorable insults.
Sri Lankan skipper Arjuna Ranatunga was not the most popular figure on the international circuit, and was perhaps most unpopular with the Australians (perhaps because he did rather well against them). One occasion, the great spinner Shane Warne was trying to lure the comfortable figure of Ranatunga down the pitch and was being frustrated by Ranatunga's unwillingness to be tempted. Wicketkeeper Ian Healy piped up: "Put a Mars Bar on a good length. That should do it."
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo