An American twitter user has unwittingly been placed at the centre of an online cricket gag.
Cricket fans across the world have turned to the social networking site Twitter to share their thoughts on the test series between Australia and England, and one tweeter @theashes has found life tough in the spotlight.
The woman, from Westfield, Massacheuttsus, is being inundated with questions for score updates, player criticisms, questions about when England will declare, and who her favourite team is.
At first, she did not enjoy the attention.
‘I AM NOT A FREAKING CRICKET MATCH,’ she tweeted.
While becoming an instant Ashes Cricket Celebrity, she normally tweets about her toddler and knitting.
She is now embracing her twitter star status, tweeting ‘I'm not sure who I support, England or Australia. However, I've been to England. I've never been to Australia.’
Starting out at a couple of hundred followers before the first Ashes test, she is now just shy of the 5,000 mark.
Tweeters from across the globe are now calling for other users to get @theashes fans up to over 10,000.
A trending topic has already been set up trying to win @theashes a VIP trip to Australia to watch the ashes, follow it at #gettheashestotheashes.
While she has started following @ShaneWarne, she evidently still has a few rules to learn about cricket, as she questioned ‘what the hell is a wicket?’
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