On the day Kevin Pietersen started tweeting, young Yorkshire spinner Azeem Rafiq was dropped from the England Under-19 squad because of “inappropriate conduct”.
He did not take the news well:
When told of his punishment by team coach John Abrahams, Rafiq responded with a disgusting tirade on the social networking site.
He tweeted: “What a f***ing farsee… John Abrahams is a useless c**t… ECB prove it again what incompetent people are working for them!! John Abrahams is a useless w****r.”
Rafiq deleted the posts and claimed he did not realise other people could read his thoughts.
It is the second time a England player misbehaves on Twitter. Tim Bresnan – also a Yorkshireman – swore on his account last year.
Today, Andrew Strauss warns his teammates on using social media: “Players should be aware that what they write is going to be seen by people they might not want it to be seen by”.
The advice came too late for Rafiq, but then again, do you believe he really did not know his account was publicly accessible?
