The Surfer

'We are so not happy with ur bodyline thing, innit'

After all the fuss about Phillip Hughes revealing that he was dropped from the Australian team on Twitter, Patrick Kidd has a hilarious piece in the Times imagining how iconic cricketing events would have been recorded if social-networking sites

After all the fuss about Phillip Hughes revealing that he was dropped from the Australian team on Twitter, Patrick Kidd has a hilarious piece in the Times imagining how iconic cricketing events would have been recorded if social-networking sites had been invented earlier. A sample: “500-1? I like those odds. Let's give it sum umpty. Mind the confectionery stall. Everyone back to mine afterwards for big piss-up” @Beefy.

Australia tour of England and Scotland