All are true – have not invented them !!> > > >

1. Rod Marsh & Ian Botham:> >> >When Botham took guard in an Ashes match, Marsh welcomed him to the> >> >wicket with the immortal words: “So how’s your wife & my kids?”> >> >> >> >

2. Daryll Cullinan & Shane Warne:> >> >As Cullinan was on his way to the wicket, Warne told him he had been> >> >waiting 2 years for another chance to humiliate him. “Looks like you> >> >spent it eating,” Cullinan retorted.> >> >> >> >

3. Glenn McGrath & Eddo Brandes:> >> >After Brandes played & missed at a McGrath delivery, the Aussie bowler> >> >politely enquired: “Oi, Brandes, why are you so fat?” “Cos every time> >> >I f**k your wife she gives me a biscuit,” Brandes replied.> >> >> >> >

4. Robin Smith & Merv Hughes:> >> >During 1989 Lords Test Hughes said to Smith after he played & missed:> >> >”You can’t f**king bat”. Smith to Hughes after he smacked him to the> >> >boundary: “Hey Merv, we make a fine pair. I can’t f**king bat & you> >> >can’t f**king bowl.”> >> >> >> >

5. Merv Hughes & Javed Miandad:> >> >During 1991 Adelaide Test, Javed called Merv a fat bus conductor. A> >> >few balls latter Merv dismissed Javed: “Tickets please”, Merv called> >> >out as he ran past the departing batsman.> >> >> >> >

6. Merv Hughes & Viv Richards:> >> >During a test match in the West Indies, Hughes didn’t say a word to> >> >Viv, but continued to stare at him after deliveries. “This is my> >> >island, my culture. Don’t you be staring at me. In my culture we just> >> >bowl.” Merv didn’t reply, but after he dismissed him he announced to> >> >the batsman: “In my culture we just say f**k *ff.”> >> >> >> >

7. Ricky Ponting & Shaun Pollock:> >> >After going past the outside edge with a couple of deliveries, Pollock> >> >told Ponting: “It’s red, round & weighs about 5 ounces.” Unfortunately> >> >for Pollock, the next ball was hammered out of the ground. Ponting to> >> >Pollock: “you know what it looks like, now go find it.”> >> >> >> >

8. And of course you can’t forget Ian Healy’s legendary comment which> >> >was picked up by the television microphones when Arjuna Ranatunga> >> >called for a runner on a particularly hot night during a one dayer in> >> >Sydney… “You don’t get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat> >> >c**t!!!”