On a much lighter note, Jimmy Leach of South Africa’s Tribune newspaper has compiled a list of the greatest insults in cricket.
My two favorites:
Eddo Brandes, the chicken farmer who batted at 11 for Zimbabwe, was surviving in entirely haphazard fashion.
The exasperated bowler wandered down the pitch and drolly asked: “Eddo, why are you so fat?” Brandes promptly replied: “Because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit.” [My guess is that this one has been cleaned up for public consumption!]
and:
Ian Botham could always give as good as he got. When he came to the crease Aussie wicketkeeper Rod Marsh said cheerfully: “How’s your wife and my kids?”
Botham is said to have replied: “The wife’s fine. The kids are retarded.”
Hey, it doesn’t all have to be coups and corruption and politics.
