So Mahenga witnessed the most mahenga slap he has ever come across. This slap cost Bhajji most of his IPL fees. With this sinking feeling down his heart he must have learnt his lesson. Mahenga can’t believe why he needed to learn his lesson at such a cost. He just has been to the sledging Uni of the world. He should have been the master of it by now. He seems not to be a good student. There are some basic Laws of Sledging as written in the Aussie handbook for sledgers that needs to be learnt by heart. At least Indian Captain realises that. Here is a quote from him.

I am all for aggression and not taking anything lying down from the opposition. It is important to give as good as you get, but it’s even more important to know how to do it.

That was Dhoni’s remark. Our players now need to be versed with this all important skill in gentleman’s game. Young players need to be versed with sledging skills from first class cricket itself. Dhoni laments here.

One of the reasons why the Indians run foul with authorities is because there is very little sledging in first-class cricket in India.

Mahenga has his own coaching classes for sledgers. First thing to understand is that it is an art and not science. In science you know what will be the result of your action. In art it depends upon the artist what he wants to convey. Same words said in different tunes and contexts will have different results. And a master can control what the result he wants.

It has to be done more like chinese art of acupuncture. Small needles pricked at right points at right time to have the desired result. Bhajji used the sledge hammer! While you can hide the needle and go scott free with the hammer you are absolutely going to be caught red handed. Mahenga is against violence so he prefers needles to the hammer.

Sreesanth it turns out was also using acupuncture of some sort for the duration of the contest and even after. Only difference was that he was using knives instead of the needles. End result was that he got the hammer over his head. This is brutal violence from both parties and Mahenga will always condemn it.

Whats done is done lets start the blame game. Both players didn’t play their part well so both needs to be blamed. Both got caught doing their act, one on camera and other by the umpire. As the saying goes; thief is the one who gets caught!

What Mahenga can’t understand is that why most people sound so upset. After all leaving these two aside who else is loosing, forgot about the game of cricket its not anymore cricket. News channels are getting their prime time filled with free visuals without any royalty. Commentators got mouthful to say now. Editors have woken up to fill some columns of their own. Ambani got his eight million back. Aussies are as happy as they can be. Poms are already saying “see we told you grapes were sore”. ICC will tell BCCI to tell their players to do it within the boundaries. Oh these boundaries again!