HAVING read the trailer on last week’s TCP regards to sledging dripping down into club and junior cricket, I was disappointed then to turn to Paul Nixon’s column to see the headline ‘Sledging is part of the game’ but hear him say he would ‘never tell players to sledge or not to sledge’.
More seriously, Nixon is quoted as saying: “Things that are said on the field aren’t meant to cause any real upset, but rather to take opponents’ focus off the game.”
Has Paul Nixon read the Laws of Cricket, I wonder? The preamble to th...