'A quality leave outside off stump is sexier with a big bat'

If there's one thing this column loves about Twitter, it's the glamour.

This week's big news was Test Match Special commentator Charles Dagnall attempting to repair a brick shed.

Daggers is a man who's down with the lingo.

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And he made unbelievably rapid progress.

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At this point he concluded that he needed more cement. Way more cement. WAY more cement.

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This is a good use of hash tags.

Having already acquired a flat scrapery thing, he next improvised a cement plate thing from which to scrape all that cement with his flat scrapery thing prior to application.

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We did say he was down with the lingo.

In fact at this point, he really got into things.

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However that conversation eventually panned out, he got one.

Look at it!

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He's unstoppable.

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He's stoppable.

Elsewhere, Virat Kohli looked a bit woozy and tired, like just about everyone who ever tries to "detox".

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Tim Bresnan didn't detox. He admired the view instead.

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Morne Morkel went to the cinema.

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And Shoaib Akhtar showcased his commendably poor grasp of football terminology.

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That's the spirit, Shoaib.

Scott Styris and Mark Richardson meanwhile were talking bat size.

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Richardson's clearly a man of strong opinions. Here's another.

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Finally, somewhere in the world there is always a cricketer complaining about air travel, and also attaching a little account of what transpired just so that we're all in the picture.

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