Social media by no means fails to supply comedic gold, however customers couldn’t fairly consider their eyes on Friday evening.
With day three of the Ashes effectively underway and England capitulating below the stress of the Australian bowling assault, Aussie cricket followers have been revelled within the viewing.
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But it was one tweet from Australia’s nationwide broadcaster that captured the eye of social media customers and unfold throughout Twitter like wildfire.
The ABC is commonly identified to play a straight bat with their protection and social media exercise, however they elected to have a swing for the fences with a cheeky on-line clip.
Like the numerous followers watching on, former Prime Minister John Howard took nice delight as play unfolded and Australia asserted their dominance on the second Test.
The former chief was sitting within the stands with former Socceroos head coach and newly named supervisor of Tottenham Hotspurs, Ange Postecoglou.
This is the place the ABC Sport Twitter account noticed the chance and pounced.
An picture of Howard standing and celebrating was uploaded, with the caption delivering a brutal dig on the former PM.
“One of the country’s most inspiring and successful leaders, and a former politician watching the cricket at Lord’s,” the tweet learn.
At the time of writing, the put up has been seen greater than half 1,000,000 occasions with near 5000 likes and had been retweeted simply shy of 1000 occasions.
Screenshots got here in thick and quick, with followers believing the put up would quickly be taken down for pushing the envelope too far.
The put up left social media customers effectively and actually cut up, with some loving the hilarity of the put up whereas others have been lower than impressed.
One offended person responded: “Get a grip.”
A fellow person added: “This bloke won 4 elections. The little twerp running this account needs to show a bit more respect.”
Another wrote: “I expect more respect from our national broadcaster for our 2nd longest serving Prime Minister.”
Another added: “Your tax dollars fund this.”
But it wasn’t all outrage and anger as many picked up on the mocking model of the tweet and liked each second of it.
Former AFL participant Will Schofield wrote: “This is funny af. The comments are a good read too … it’s ok to have a laugh every now and then.”
ESPN journalist Steve Smith wrote: “Screenshot this before it goes folks. Phenomenal sh*tposting from the national broadcaster.”
Howard and Postecoglou watched because the wheels fell aside for England on day three as Australia edged in direction of a 2-0 sequence lead.
The Aussies will start day 4 with a 221-run lead and eight wickets within the financial institution after a dominant day in London that included some critically spectacular efforts by the Aussie bowlers and batters – but additionally some weird moments from the Poms.
Almost midway to Australia’s first innings rating with only one wicket down, England imploded to be all out for 325 and path by 91 runs.
“Love how England have played in the last 12 months. But seriously, this is farcical batting,” tweeted BBC reporter Henry Moeran.
Australia reached stumps for the lack of simply Warner and Marnus Labuschagne’s wickets – Smith is six not out – means there’s a greater likelihood of defending the tail from what’s been a harmful session for batting every morning.
And then will probably be right down to the Aussie bowlers to take 10 wickets with out Lyon.
Mitchell Starc’s uncanny skill to maintain breaking by and the guile of Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood ought to be sufficient.
And don’t overlook Travis Head, whose final 251 balls in Test cricket have delivered 9 wickets at a median of 15.
Originally revealed as ABC’s cheeky dig at former PM John Howard ruffles feathers on-line
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
