Previously I blogged about the Twashes, well it lived up to that tag on the first day at Edgbaston.
As Shane Watson walked out to open the batting, the dropped Phillip Hughes was logging on to his computer to see just how much fuss he'd caused by tweeting about his omission from the Australian side well in advance of the toss.
Onions: it's not just his surname that's causing a stir
It was good to add some flesh to the bones by organising a phone interview with Hughes agent, Neil D'Costa.
He explained that due to a rather cumbersome process which involved him having to receive updates from Hughes before passing them onto "a technician" to put them on twitter, it was his fault that the premature news had broken.
He'd got his time zones mixed up and also, by the sounds of it, confused twitter with something that is hard to use. It was as if it took literally 140 characters to update Hughes' account from across the globe.
In summary, the session was great for two bowlers, the best dismissal that of North, "it was all about Onions Prior to great Ands-my-son!"
Adam Leventhal
Quotes of the week
England v Australia
3rd npower Test
10am, Sat, Sky Sports 1 & HD1
How many people does it take for Hughes to tweet? More than one, which is ridiculous and the cynical may suggest the "story" aimed to take the heat off Twillip Hughes.
Tweet FA
Prior to the start of day two there was still a lot of talk about Hughes, but Darren Bent seemed to have twumped him by calling his chairman all the names under the sun on his micro-blog.
Wouldn't it be funny if Bent ended up staying at Tottenham and had to sit next to Levy in the stand at White Hart Lane? What would they say to each other? Tweet FA.
If you've had enough of the puns then turn over now because they are going to come twick and fast.
If you are looking for someone to blame then his name is James Root from Colchester aka RootyJ on twitter. As Graham Onions pulled up Australian trees on the morning of day two he decided to initiate a new subject on twitter called Punions.
The aim was to come up with the best puns that reflected Onions heroics and it really got my juices flowing (juices that tasted like pickled onions).
Here are my top 5 punions:
1 Flavour of first session for England: Ease and Onions.
2 Selection of Onions rings true.
3 He's Onion bhajing his way through the Aussie order
4 That was Onion-like Fred to drop that.
5 Lets hope there's another one in the Onion bag before lunch.
Obviously, it wasn't all about Onions, Jimmy Anderson took over with his Michelle. It proved to be a case of "Ander nother one bites the dust". In summary, the session was great for two bowlers, the best dismissal that of North, "it was all about Onions Prior to great Ands-my-son!"
For more pun fun and general cricket banter follow me on twitter.com/adamleventhal
Video
Recent Comments:
Martin Hicks on Raising the roof
"I think you are asking Andy to tackle the problem from the wrong end. Years ago when they were the TCCB they said we don't need lights because it doesn't get dark as quickly here as it ... " View all comments