Published Wed, Apr 14 10 11:29 PM
The bible of cricket has launched itself into the world of social media with a section on Twitter complete with a gratuitous profanity that will shock gin-sipping colonels out of their striped ties.
The Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2010 edition features a section called "Cricket on Twitter", complete with a supposedly unprintable four-letter word -- the first, in fact, that has appeared in the Almanack, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper whose cricket correspondent is Wisden's editor.
"Any readers offended by this alarming development can blame both the editor -- our own Scyld Berry -- and the emerging England all-rounder Tim Bresnan, who used the word in what was described as "a foul-mouthed rant" on the social networking service in October," the Telegraph wrote on Wednesday.
Bresnan was upset because a fellow Twitter user had posted a digitally altered picture that emphasised his girth after he suffered jokes about his appetite on the micro-blogging site, mostly at the hands of England team mates.
Bresnan decided that the user who had posted the picture, and whom he did not know, had crossed the line and wrote back.
He wrote: "Don't mind my mates dishing it out but who the f--- are you," according to the Telegraph.
Wisden decided to include the message uncensored, in an item on cricket making the news because of Twitter.
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