Sledging is a part and parcel of the sport. The line, however, is so fine that sometimes things go overboard. Interim Bangladesh boss,Courtney Walsh, meanwhile, believes that it is better to do the talking with the ball rather than the mouth.

He used his time as a bowler as an example to convey his point, stating that the batsmen used to find themselves injured after a session with the bowlers.

"You know that my home ground of Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, is surrounded by hospitals, 10 probably 15 hospitals, and on weekends they would be full of players we'd send there... a nose broken, a finger chipped, a bleeding mouth... we played hard, that's what we did at Sabina Park, that's why so many hospitals,” Walsh was quoted as saying on The Daily Star.

“Once we had the Leeward Islands team led by Viv Richards for a game, before lunch five or six of them were down at the hospitals.”

He then suggested that since the bowlers can injure the batsmen, there is no point in waging a verbal war.

“Why insult with abuse when you can injure with a ball?” Walsh revealed.

Manoj Prabhakar knows first-hand what the West Indian legend means here as he smashed the Indian cricketer’s nose with a bouncer. When asked about how many players’ blood he spilled, he said, "a few fellows, not too many.”