Some sledges to celebrate this great day (and in reply to Edward's request)

* "You don't get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat #$&!%." Ian Healey to Runatunga after he asked for a runner.

* "Thanks mate, you just dropped the World Cup." Steve Waugh to Hershelle Gibbs after he dropped a chance in the 1995 World Cup semi final.

* "We don't want you here, get out of my ground!" -Yorkshire bowler Steve Kirby to Steve Waugh in an English county match.

"No, I won't, this is my favourite pitch. And who are you, the *#@%& mayor?" Waugh's reply.

* "These people have not come to watch you bowl. They have come to watch me bat." W. G. Grace, explaining why he would not leave the field after being dismissed.

* "No need to sledge me. I've been sledged more times than you've had pisses." Gavaskar replying to a Simon O'Donnell sledge

* "I am no great lover of football but even I can see that to suggest there is little difference between it and the souped-up girly netball which is a major sport in the US is both insane and insulting." Victoria Beckham's view of America's NBA basketball, when compared with the English Premier League. (Not really a sledge but I like it).