"Pataudi has a radical idea, something sledgers of the world would likely unite to oppose. "The fielders should not be allowed to say anything in the hearing of the batsman," he declares. "It's a sport. Shut up and get on with it. If a team tries to gain an unfair advantage by sledging, it must not be allowed." Rather radical, and perhaps too much so. It might make the sport sterile, but there won't be any race rows at least. "
From Outlook article http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20080128&fname=Cricket+%28F%29&sid=1 by Rohit Mahajan.
John Traicos seems to agree (From Sidhartha Vaidyanathan's Australian Diaryhttp://blogs.cricinfo.com/tourdiaries/archives/2008/01/an_encounter_wi_1.php ):
"I don’t believe the atmosphere of sledging has helped at all. I don’t believe you need to sledge as a systematic process, simply because it gets to abuse. Everybody plays the game hard, and you play a bit of a prank now and than, but there’s a different between that and a systematic mental
rattling. It’s a systematic feature of cricket that has to be eradicated.”
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