London: Australian pacer Brett Lee feels Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar, West Indian Brian Lara and England's Kevin Pietersen are part of a select band of international batsmen who should never be sledged as the strategy generally backfires.
"There are guys you can stir up and get stuck into and there are others you leave alone," Lee said.
"Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down, same as Brian Lara.
Kevin Pietersen has controlled aggression and he likes it when someone has a chat to him. He takes it personally and it fires him up and he'll want to score a big hundred," the fast bowler was quoted as saying by the local newspapers here.