A well-intentioned social media post has been sabotaged by a park cricket team, turning the comments section into a mess of self-indulgent in-jokes and banter.
Over the Christmas break, the Cricket 247-365 Facebook page posted a seemingly innocent picture that said: “Tag a mate who dropped the most catches this summer”, designed to provoke plenty of engagement between cricket lovers.
Then Dazza McKenzie, the captain of the Bulls Fourth XI Sub-District cricket team (also called “that team of loose unit pissheads who are s*** at cricket and can’t be bothered training” by the more serious first and second graders), tagged his entire team in a comment – then the floodgates opened.
Cue a few hours of Bulls teammates bantering with each other, hurling (supposedly light-hearted) abuse at the weaker/newer teammates, having a d***-measuring contest over who got the most pissed on Christmas Day, sledging Dazza for that day in 1999 when he got absolutely tanked during a washed out game and lost the keys to the club’s ride-on mower, so on and so forth.
Any bemused onlookers who tried to interject were swiftly told to “piss off” as the Bulls took over the comments section with no shame and no regard for anyone else in the group; even the trolls from certain cricket-loving nations couldn’t get a word in.
Eventually, the Cricket 247-365 admins were forced to close the comment section on the post after too many complaints, though the fact there was over 2,000 comments on it suggested they weren’t in a huge rush to stop the Bulls’ banter.
But not before Fox Cricket wrote a clickbait article about the Bulls’ carnage, and offered the team free tickets to the latest Big Bash game in their city in return for exclusive interviews. The Bulls boys gleefully took the tickets and are already planning an epic pub crawl after the game.
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