Can somebody please explain why people feel the need to accompany discussions like these with annoying background music? I find it impossible to concentrate on what is being said. Pity.
Chappell. Scared before, undignified throughout, successful in self humiliation by the end. A recorded testimony of spoilt brat as legacy for eternity. Botham arrives open, fearless, willing to compromise and acknowledge. Walks away forever dignified, gracious, dignity in tact, maturity in spades, leaving Chappell's bravado and fear unmasked, reputation shattered and plagued with shame that cannot be washed off or forgotten. A child in a sandbox, reduced to ashes, consumed by cancerous bitterness, beyond human redemption. Pathetic. Leaving "A tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
or like Chappell says just back away from the wicket before the ball is bowled and just keep doing that every time they insist on talking, like he said it will be a long day and they soon get tired of it. =Z=
Unapologetically and proudly the worst sledgers. Cheaters ? Depends on where match fixing and taking bribes figures compared with ball tampering I suppose
I agree. There is no fiercer rivalry than my brother and I playing chess and this goes back nearly 40 years when we were both in primary school. We are three years apart and fought a lot growing up but since we were both in our 20s we have been close friends. When we play chess, we both hate losing to the other and love beating the other, but we do not abuse each other or say anything to put the other off their game. We just let our performance speak for itself. Then we have a beer and a cone. Sometimes my brother gives me a cone just to put me off my game (because he smokes pot more than I do and handles it better) ... that's about the worst of the gamesmanship.
Pot calling the kettle black - Aussies under Ian Chappell started it. They later called it Mental disintegration. Got to take it back when it comes to you, not a one way street.
It’s not cricket Chappell- It shows a lack of class; if you’re good enough you get on with it like Tendulkar and don’t resort to this underhand gamesmanship. You Aussies like to make the rules and be the sole arbiter of where ‘the line’ is once it’s crossed. Hypocrites!
The Windies gave Oz 15 years of hell because of Ian Chappell's ugly Australians. And Chappell had to learn to sprint to out run Beefy who met insults with fire.
Well said. particularly as u are an Aussie. Ironically Chappel gives the best advice on how to deal with the chatter, which to my mind his 70's team helped foster.
People world over have a lot of respect for folks like Ian Chappell and Benaud. Whenever a controversy erupts or something happens, you see a group of Aussie commentators (Slater, Healy) come in support of this "chatter" behavior saying things like its "inane" and people make a "big deal of it" etc.. The truth is if you say the wrong thing at the wrong time, you are going to face fire.. 100% agree with Ian. If Aussies don't want incidents like Sydney 2008 to happen, just shut up and play.. No need for anything else.. Watch that video of Harbajan from 2008, why is Hayden in the middle? He is neither the captain nor the player involved.. yet, I bet you, he must have come and said a whole lot to Harbhajan. To me, only two people from Australian side need to speak, captain and player.. In the present day, its guys like Haddin and Watson who have taken over and do this crazy work that Symonds did.. There is no place for racial taunts in the game and Harbhajan should gotten punished but Symonds was ALWAYS in trouble.. Wonder why?
@@GeorgetheArchitect I agree with everything that you have said. Just wanted to add that Symonds wasn't as bad a human being as us Indians have assumed he must be. He did most of the sledging and talking because thats what the Aussie team management wanted him to do. He was a soldier and a great team man.
Kevin Menezes Sorry Kevin, that’s not a good excuse. As an adult, you own your behavior. He is ALWAYS in the middle of a controversy. IMHO, he was an outstanding all rounder who destroyed his career via drama
Former Australia players are the biggest hypocrites about sledging. These players talk about what the other teams do! They call it sledhing ...which is bad. But what they do , so called abuse , they call it " mental disintegration".
Really like Ian Chappell. I think he's one of the best analysts and commentators of the game. I notice he mentioned swearing, I find it hard to believe that he and his '70s Australian team didn't get into the swearing. Also fans do like the banter and occasional bit of fire between opponents, eg Merv v whoever and Johnson v The Poms
Tony Greig went on record saying many times that he, and a lot of his teammates of that 70s era, wasn't affected by anything that anyone had to say about them. And the times he paid attention to it, he may have had something funny to say in response. When it starts using racially charged language, that's out of line and should be dealt with.
It is Ian Chappell, not 'Sir Ian....' He also makes several good points, in particular his comment regarding talking, sledging and abuse. Talking and sledging both have their places but doing it to the point of detriment to the game - as is abuse - is not on. The background 'music' is not necessary nor is additional commentary by Mark Taylor and Michael Slater. Stick the relevancy of the title. It is Ian Chappell's comment that is being made here. If there is a desire to hear someone else's commentary then do a separate video. The fact that this video is several years old doesn't remove the relevancy of the topic - or the talker - to recent years efforts.
I remember when england were beating the aussies in 2010 some of the press complained that the aussies had been trying to be nicer on the field and that's why they were losing. It soon changed back
The bloke has more sense in his toe than most administrators put together. Despite his ill deserved reputation, he was a quiet fella on the field and he was a fierce defender of his players.
And during the Bodyline series, when Australian cricketers had all the justification in the world to sledge English players, they chose to follow the example of their captain Bill Woodfull. Faced with a crippled Larwood, who could only stand within the crease and bowl gentle toss-ups, Bill chose, not to hit every single delivery for 4 or 6, but to dead-bat them down the pitch. Woodfull was a man of sterling character who never kicked a man when that man was down.
@@julianwilcox399It was not considered 'within the spirit of the game', it was considered dangerous in an era of uncovered wickets and no helmets. The English claim to be the spiritual keepers of cricket so surely they'd understand
Great advice from chappelli. But fairs fair. Australia is consistently ugly on the cricket field. It was and is a gentlmen's game and the gameship he talks about is engrossing and should be a part of cricket. But not out and out abuse and chatter. That is bullying. Australia has been shockers at this and continue to this day. Glenn Mcgrath was a disgrace. He used to abuse them out or get them out. Shane warne used to pick a fight. In the old days a glare, a clap or a witty word was all that was required. Unfortunately Australia has celebarated the worse kind and therefore invented the word - sledging. This is not to say other countries don't engage in it, but other countries dont have a culture of it being mandatory to show some guts and fight. After all they come from convict class. PS - I was born down under. But I am ashamed of this shit.
He’s right about the batsman giving some chirp back to the bowler at the non-strikers end, if the bowler wants to give it then give him some back when your not facing he’ll hate it.
I remember when Glenn Turner told Ian Chappell to shut his foul mouth during a Test Match while Turner was about to be bowled to. Went on to get a double century I think. Pity Chappell didn't follow his own advice about zipping it.
easy to stop a wicket keeper doing that when facing a spin bowler, wait for the ball to be bowled (make sure it not hitting wicket when he bowls) then make a huge swing with the bat making out to try and hit the ball BUT MAKING SURE you hit that IDIOT across the HEAD WITH THE BAT, that will shut him up. Done this a couple of times myself and i can tell you NO ONE chats away or sledges me at the crease anymore after a couple of whacks with the bat they soon become silent when i come to the crease. =z=
I hardly pay any attention to professional sports any more and, in the case of cricket, it mostly because of sledging. I guess the moment when I realised that I didn't like the game anymore came when Australia was playing in Test match and an Australian bowler, who stood 1.95 metres tall, was following through after each delivery, right down to the batter's end and, out of earshot of the umpire, calling the batsman a faggot and a c**ksucker and worse. Straight off, I lost all respect for that player and realised he wasn't playing the game "tough" - given his size, he was nothing more than a schoolyard bully and like all bullies, also a coward! And nothing since has changed my mind. Look at all the stories you hear of players being invited to sort it out behind the grandstand at the end of play. It never happens because the cowards know that their team mates will be there to protect them! And the umpires are next to useless in situations like this. When they are given the same powers as officials in some football codes i.e. send offs or sin bins, I might start watching the game again. Maybe that will weed all of the cowards out of the game!
What a load of bollocks, the Aussies see nothing wrong with it then when they get a bit back cry like babies, absolute grubs. And Sir Ian Chappel..that's a joke in itself. Who the hell does he think he is!
Chappell is correct sledging isn't a problem abuse abuse and racism and talking particular from a wicketkeeper why batsman are trying to concentrate facing a bowler is a problem love Anthony Fed ex lol
It's funny how many of Chappelli's team-mates and opponents defend him when it comes to the accusations of him being a sledger. Even Ian Botham has referred to him as an example of a player reputed to be a sledger but who, in his experience, were nothing of the sort.
Nothing wrong with a bit of witty banter but when it gets personal and nasty it is just bad sportsmanship. No coincidence that nearly every bad incident that you see over the years involves the Aussies! But they don't like it back and cry at every press conference when shown the error of their ways!
@@M3au well the Australians can have their "Lord Chappell of first slip". In South Africa we had His Majesty the king Kallis standing at first slip, or taking wickets or scoring a ton of runs. Even he was not above having a word or two if needed.
The umpires don't act.Its plain simple.Leverage to one team and punishment to the other has pretty much been the reason why it keeps on happening.If players are let off they take it for granted.Ask Aussie,South African and English cricketers as to how many times they are let off for literally abusing.Umpires turn deaf ears for them.
I am a great fan of Ian Chapel , the commentator. He is endowed with a thundering voice and clear in his diction. His comments are the most apt and keeps the listeners deeply engaged. I am a cricket buff since my child hood. The game underwent a
If they want to stop sledging, I suggest they just let the players fight with their fists like they do in Ice Hockey. We'll see who the real tough guys are - they're usually the quiet ones.
+Tehui1974 I agree. Let them go at each other. I would love to have seen a dust up between Symonds and Singh. Harbhajan would've hung in for a while but the end result would never have been in doubt. A bit like the results between the 2 countries outside of India.
West Indies would win every single time, then. But to be honest cricketers are still soft AF compared to other athletes. Can only see Ben Stokes and Aaron Finch as the few non-West Indian "tough guys". Rest are just whack
Australians don't take themselves as seriously as other countries. That's probably why they have such a history of sledging. Also have a look at a state/county game in Australia, it's full of sledging and no one has a problem with it. Like Chappell said there is sledging or gamesmanship and then quite separately there is abuse. They aren't the same. Also like Taylor and Slater said it's a Small part of the game that gets way too much attention. It's international sport, not a tea party so sometimes people will get angry or upset , let the captain's and umpire's sort it out.
I hate sledging. Friendly banter no probs. But even that can get out of hand. If you can win with out sledging then give the game away. I’m an OZZY and being watching cricket since the Ian chappel / Tony Greg and Dennis Lillie era . I don’t remember seeing much then. I’m sure it happened. But when I saw our Glenn McGrath absolutely tearing strips off this little Indian batsman in a threatening manner it looked ugly as hell. I would like to think that that’s not part of the game. I no he was a very competitive bowler but totally unnecessary and not a good look for kids growing up playing the game. Look Glens a fantastic guy but I think he just got out of control. Our OZZY team certainly hasn’t been the perfect teem but still proud of our success.
Which went to extent of asking g about Brian Lara...it's a useless iduot called me grath...incapable maggot...many great bowlers got wickets without stopping by o that level
@@elamcyril It sounds like you're an apologist and a hater. Now I know this whole woke thing can sometimes be a bit much in 2023, but there's no room for this sort blacck face racism in today's game. It was no doubt tolerated when this Symonds was acting the goat and playing, but thankfully that's not the case now.
Derek Allan Naaaah, little boucher was one of the nastiest cricketers to play the game. A bit of ribbing and verbal banter all well and fine in test cricket, but boucher took it to another level with spite and unpleasantness. I've played cricket with twatts like him talking crap directly behind the stumps and slowly walked away from the wicket just before the bowler was about the release the ball. I also asked if they were finished and are you ready to play on. It never failed to work.
What was his worst decision? Getting World series cricket up and running to finally get the players a decent payrate? Never losing a series as captain? Looking after all his ex teammates including paying medical and funeral expenses, speaking out in favour of refugees in Australia. worst decision? Would you kindly share please @Lima Misa
I am an umpire and the dumbest thing a batsman can do is react and buy into a fielder saying something dumb. Bowlers can be hit for fours, sixes, can drop catches and miss-field ... but they always have another chance. When a batsman is dismissed he has no such another chance and only looks silly if it happens soon after an immature verbal altercation. Best thing to do for a batsman is turn his back on the member of the fielding side and wait for that chat to stop and then face up. He might still get out next ball, but at least he won't look like a goose. If he keeps hitting fours and sixes the fielding side will (look like gooses).
