ABSTRACT
Thus, response in this area, as in other formerly unregulated or self-regulated parts of the legal regime of cricket, has been to juridify the game. More law and more order are the order of the day. The 2000 Code of the Laws of Cricket contains new anti-sledging provisions. Law 42(4), as with many of the amendments to the Laws dealing with the various offences of unfair play includes new remedial powers for the umpires. Sledging, if we place our faith in the wording of the legislative text, will not be regulated from now on by the inherent agreements among participants about what the parameter of acceptable behaviour is or should be, but by umpires who may penalize offenders.
