6 times cricketers got trolled on air

Even after toiling the entire day on the field, trying to get wickets or score some runs, these cricketers have their sense of humour intact, taking friendly digs at each other. The commentators too, don’t mind indulging in banter, deviating from the mundane, technical aspects of the game.While most of the banter takes place behind the camera, in the closed confines of the dressing rooms, spectators are sometimes lucky to hear and see their favourtie players taking potshots at each other.Here are 6 times when cricketers got trolled on air.

#1 Harsha Bhogle and Rahul Dravid discuss Dada\'s bowling

In this epic banter involving three of the best modern day cricket commentators, Dravid was discussing how many overs he gave to Tendulkar and Ganguly in 2007. He admitted that maybe he underbowled Ganguly, but Sachin had more wickets. Dada complained that Rahul always did that, to which Harsha duly pointed that Tendulkar indeed had more test wickets.

This is the excerpt from the conversation:

Harsha: Tendulkar had more test wickets than Ganguly.

Sourav: Thats because he bowled half his overs on turning pitches in India.

Dravid: Sanjay Manjrekar made a really good point. If Ganguly had been a yard quicker, and just a little bit fitter, he would have been a match winner.

Dada concluded this befittingly by saying, I wish I was the Prime Minister of India, I would have done a whole lot of things.

#2 Swan Predicts Nassy\'s Time Is Up

After winning the 2011 Ashes Test series 3-1, Andrew Strauss talks about winning the next Ashes series, four years later. Graeme Swann doesn’t fail to remind him that Strauss will be 43 by then.

Strauss adds that he might be retired by then, getting the job of a commentator, to which Swann then jokes that there is going to be a job opening soon as Nasser Hussain is going to be fired. Nassy, who’s in the commentator’s box all this while, gets up and leave in mock anger, much to the amusement of spectators.

#3 When Lloyd Trolled Lloyd

Fondly called “Bumble”, David Lloyd was giving the mid-match analysis along with Nasser Hussain when West Indian legend Clive Lloyd passed them from behind in a golf cart, and pinched David’s buttock from behind.

Though David was caught off-guard and was taken aback for a second, he continued speaking to the commentators normally. When one of the commentators mentioned that it was Clive Llyod, and asked Bumble what he had done to annoy him, the English cricketer just laughed, and took the entire thing very sportingly.

#4 Side Getting Mocked For Calling Warne \"Bada Bhai\"

Former Indian all-rounder Navjot Singh Sidhu is known for his quirky comments, and mocking other cricketers while doing commentary, but when he called Shane Warne his “bada bhai (big brother)” and got Warnie to do his trademark ‘Khattaaak’, Saurav Ganguly asked Rahul Dravid what Sidhu meant by “bada bhai”.

They were seen laughing and discussing, in what sense was Siddhu “smaller”, when in fact he was bigger in both age and size. They concluded that Sherry, as usual, was fishing for compliments.

#5 Shastri Questions Dada\'s Sympathy For The Bowlers

While talking to Ravi Shastri and Harsha Bhogle, Sourav Ganguly commented on the reducing distance of the cricket ground, and how boundaries were getting shorter and shorter. He felt this was a little harsh on the bowlers as they got hammered all around the park by the likes of Dhoni and Faulkner, who now required a flick of the wrist to get the ball out of the boundary lines.

Harsha couldn’t control his smirk, and Shaz was quick to point out how batsmen only realised this when they retired. He asked Ganguly if he felt about the closer boundaries the same way when he and Tendulkar smashed the balls for fours.

#6 Sunil Gavaskar Sings A Song On Rohit\'s Inability To Find The Ball

This one deserves a special mention.

In IPL 2013, Rohit Sharma was clearly struggling against Dale Steyn as he completely beat his outside edge repeatedly. As if his lean form wasn’t evident enough, Sunil Gavaskar tried to further rub it in, by commenting “Rohit is singing a song ‘dhoondo dhoondo re, saajana..dhoondo Dale Steyn ki ball (find it, dear; find Dale Steyn’s ball).”