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jack

Very well spoken, chinaman. I thoroughly endorse your views. Australia without sledging, are half the team they are!! We all saw that in Australia in the third test which India won. If sledging is brought down to a minimum level, Australia will be ranked in the middle of the pile, make no mistake. This was always a gentleman's game until the Aussies changed the rules. Let us get down to showing proper skill and winning because of it. Small banter from time to time is acceptable. But the Aussies have taken it to a different level, and when India matched them, they were completely bemused and did not know what was happening, and hence all the comments on and off the field. Let us play by the rules, and I'm sure all the other countries are feeling upbeat that at last things are being done regarding sledging. Never too late. The class players will still succeed, but Australia will feel it the most if sledging is curtailed. CA has also strongly rejected a ban on sledging, and no guesses for why they have done so!!

chinaman

"What is a sledge and what's not a sledge is my big question there!!!." - you tell us Mr Clark. If you do not know it yourself, how can you defend it?

"How are we going to remove something that has been so much part of the game?" - simple, Mr Clark, by behaving like adults and not school kids. Besides it has been part of the Australian way, certainly not global. It may be something you cannot do without, but there may be others who finds it unpleasant and offensive.

Every situation in life has written rules and regulations and also unwritten etiquette. If you are unable to follow, then do not be in it.

"...monitoring interaction between players would be near impossible. It's going to be a hard one to police ..." - precisely Mr Clark, which is why it should be a "all or none law". What is acceptable to you may be deeply offensive and hurtful to another. Do not cry mummy when someone gives you back as good as you give out. Either accept everything, racial, political and personal or play without resorting to any form of abuse.

"... it's going to be very boring for six hours if you can't talk to one another and can't do anything like that," - then stay at home Mr Clark, and indulge in everything like that, there is no compulsion on you to play Test cricket.

"...removing of sledging completely from the game of cricket... I think it's going to be detrimental to the game." - wrong again Mr Clark, it has already been detrimental to the game, so grow up and play the grown ups game.