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The Australian’s Peter Lalor writes that Michael Clarke is tweeting in a Cricket Australia meeting about tweeting.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
The Australian’s Peter Lalor writes that Michael Clarke is tweeting in a Cricket Australia meeting about tweeting.
Shane Warne is not in the meeting about tweeting, but is tweeting about the meetings and suggests to his friend that he should call a meeting about calling the next meeting. Clarke likes that and notes with tongue-in-tweet that Warnie always did like a good meeting.
The vice-captain then tweets that: "The youngsta is falling asleep in these meetings" - the meetings about tweeting, that is. "The youngsta" in this case is Clarke's new best mate now that Warnie has gone from the team, Phil Hughes.
In Back Page Lead, Malcolm Knox calls for an end to tweets from cricketers for the most obvious reason. Their tweets aren't very entertaining.
I’ve just checked Michael Clarke’s Tweets from the team camp at Coolum. Would you believe it, they’re having a lot of meetings. Would you believe it, Hughes is falling asleep. Would you believe it, Clarke wants to congratulate his coach Tim Nielsen for something or other. Would you believe it, Clarke has been trading jokes with Warney, who doesn’t like meetings either. Would you believe it, Clarke checks footy results with Wendell Sailor. Gosh, I’m not surprised this dialogue has 41,085 followers. I am surprised that there are 46 actually following it.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo