Smith's Crew in SA

[ElwoodBlues1]

You reckon that sort of sledging is Ok do you ?........we were completely scathing of the Saints (carlisle) targeting Murph's wife with similar on-field sledging & backed Murphs reaction to that to the hilt.....hypocrisy.

It is not OK in any situation in any sport, no matter who it involves......and I can tell you if me or anyone else copped anything like that playing cricket in my day, the sledger would have been taken out the back of the sheds & layed out......

Agree...thats not ok what he said but the boundaries on different issues would be different for individual players, what we might define as nothing too offensive might be taken the wrong way by someone else leading them to reply with stuff that is over the top.
Do you create a seperate rule book for sledging with banned subject matters ie race, religion, family or do you just say only cricket related sledges are allowed.....and have umpires adjudicate and report players?
Problem Warner has is that he is often the player initiating proceedings, when he called  DeKock a f...ing sook twice as he came off the ground if that had been me on the receiving end of that I would have wanted a piece of him off the field but I have noticed he only gets chirpy with little blokes like himself ie DeKock, Kohli, Sharma, Root etc.....someone bigger and he seems silent.
When you initiate verbal attacks on other players he is going to have to get used to a bit coming back his way plus interest attached......