In these days of cricketing correctness, where codes of behaviour are being handed down by the Cricket Police, here is a salute to the good old days when games were won and lost by whatever means available. With a great one-liner on every page, this is a collection of crude, rude, famous and infamous sledges all placed within the context of the match and the rivalries on and off the pitch. It includes the following: Merv Hughes to Gremae Hick - 'Mate, if you just turn the bat over you'll find the instructions on the other side'; Lillie to Gatting - 'Hell, Gatt, move out of the way I can't see the stumps'; Woodfull to Jardine - 'Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?'; and, Warne to Cullinan: 'I've been waiting two years for another chance to humiliate you'.

Cullinan replies: 'Looks like you spent it eating'. It also includes the most pathetic sledge of all time from present England Captain Kevin Petersen to Chris Gayle - 'You're making me cross. You're making me cross.