Sledging has been an integral part of cricket and it surely adds a different flavour to the game. Here is a thread 🧵 on some of the funny sledges taken place on cricket field!
1. Mark Waugh and James Ormand:
"what are you doing out here, you are clearly not good enough… to play for England."
In a swift and clever comeback, Ormond retorted, “Maybe so, but at least I’m the best player in my family."
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80 years ago today, newspapers in Europe carried news of the unexpected death of a very important man, in a hotel miles from the nearest city.
A man who, said some, was helping the Allies win the war.
But there was a twist to the tale. The man in question wasn't actually dead
@gowellender@root66 Cooky’s in the crosshairs
Except
He needs 132 (or 82*) from his next innings to get his average up to 50, and so on and so on
Doubt he’ll do a Swann, though
As of today every single sewage company in England and Wales is under investigation as part of the "largest ever criminal investigation", into "widespread non-compliance".
What the hell has @Ofwat and @EnvAgency been doing the last 33 years?
https://t.co/mId4paLizs
Apparently, when Gareth passed his resignation to the FA, they passed it back, he then passed it sideways to Bellingham, who fed Kane, who then passed it to the keeper.
The Government wants to build new towns. In a paper for @UKDayOne, @KaneEmerson and I propose a huge new town at the intersection of the East Coast Main Line and the planned East-West Rail. We believe this may be the best greenfield site in England. Here is why.
No literary work did more to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union than
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
So why is it that most American students have never heard of it?
10 of the best quotes 🧵
@toryboypierce@RachelReevesMP I doubt she has.
When you look at public sector net debt to GDP, current financing costs and prospective revenue vs. expenditure, the UK’s finances are clearly in a worse state than they were then.
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As James Anderson is about to end his international career I wanted to write this thread.
It’s about this inswinger to Marlon Samuels that trapped Marlon plumb in front in the Bridgetown test in 2015.
It’s one of my favorite spells of fast bowling in Test cricket .
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I’d make the point to @bbcquestiontime and other similar shows that given @TheGreenParty have precisely the same number of MPs - and precisely the same democratic legitimacy - they should in future be afforded precisely the same number of opportunities to speak as Farage.
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY was released 33 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great blockbuster action films, and among the best sequels ever made, it remains a hugely spectacular movie with a making of story to match…
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