Hold on to your hat Donut........
I agree 100% with you. [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] It was allowed to flourish under borders later years as captain. Fed up with losing he turned his side into a mean and focused team. Out the window went all the friendly banter and chat when a new batsman walked to the crease. Border had the sole aim of making the batsman ill at ease for his entire stay. Even famously telling his team not to talk at all to D. Randell a noted nervous chatter. When he came to the crease he was surrounded by total silence, which he found off putting in the extreme. Mark Taylor perfected the art of "mental disintragation" and his mantra of never giving a mug an even break was rigorously applied. But it did work. The famous "how does it feel to have just dropped the world cup" remark was said to have crushed the S.A. confidence after a simple catch was not taken and let Australia through for a victory.
While the support of sledging may have been questionably justified in the border years, the last fifteen years has seen Australia dominate the game and to do so in a sometimes-shameful way does take the gloss of an era of otherwise awesome sporting success story.
Sunil *sunny* is right and it should stop NOW.
