A war that can get funny !!

The next time my brother isn't giving me pocket - money, I'll head-butt him. Now that's a common phrase you are hearing nowadays. Verbal abuses in sports isn't a new thing. The abuses are sometimes hilarious, and when the victim retorts back, its even more hilarious. Here are a few examples:

• Aussie Merv Hughes to Englishman Robin Smith: "Does your husband play cricket as well?"
• In 1990, Javed Miandad called Merv Hughes a 'fat bus conductor'. Hughes dismissed Miandad shortly after and yelled out: "Tickets please!"
• Ravi Shastri and an Australian 12th man: Shastri hits out and looks for a single. The Aussie gets the ball and says, "If you leave the crease I'll break your %$#@! head". Says Shastri, "If you could bat as well as you talk, you wouldn't be the %$#@! 12th man!"
• Shane Warne to Daryll Cullinan: "I've been waiting two years to humiliate you again". Daryll: "Looks like you spent the time eating".
• Ian Botham had famously said of Pakistan: "It's the sort of country to send your mother-in-law to". The Pakistanis weren't amused, and when they beat England in the 1992 World cup final, Aamir Shohail told Botham, "Why don't you send your mother-in-law out to play. She can't do much worse"

But yes, it can get tasteless like the verbal duel between Glenn McGrath and Sarwan, or the one in the picture above !!