'Always crying': Indian great's bizarre swipe at Adam Gilchrist

Indian cricket great Harbhajan Singh never quite saw eye to eye with the Australian teams he faced during his heyday in the early 2000s, and it seems some of the bad blood still lingers.

In a since deleted reply to a tweet from former wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist, the Indian superstar accused him of ‘talking nonsense’ and ‘always crying’.

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Gilchrist had retweeted a video of Singh’s famous hat-trick against the 2001 Australian Test team, a famously good side including Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting and Gilly himself.

In the memorable hat-trick, Singh dismissed Ponting, Gilchrist and Shane Warne in as many balls - but Gilchrist couldn’t help but point something out about his wicket.

The star keeper was out LBW to Singh, but replays showed the ball had pitched well outside leg - prompting Gilchrist to quip ‘no DRS’ with a sad-face emoji when he re-tweeted the clip.

While it was meant as nothing more than alight-hearted jab, Singh must have seen red when it popped up on his feed.

“U think u would have survived for long if not first ball?” the fiery Indian spinner wrote back in a since-deleted job of his own.

“Stop crying over these things mate...thought u would talk sense after ur playing days...but few things never change u r the prime example of that. Always crying.”

The tweet is long gone, but it didn’t prevent some from taking a shot of their own at the vaunted spinner.

He might have copped it on Twitter, but Singh will always have the last laugh.

That hat-trick isn’t about to be removed from the history books any time soon.

Ashes ‘joke’ leaves fans fuming

Cricket fans are fuming again after the horrible English weather wreaked havoc on the opening day of the fourth Ashes Test.

A city synonymous with football, music and wet weather, Manchester didn't disappoint with the latter on a bizarre opening day at Old Trafford.

Starting a Test match in September is something that's never happened in this part of the world before but, due to the Cricket World Cup the Ashes series has been pushed back to finish deep into the English autumn.

Locals say if it's not raining in Manchester, it will be soon, so it was to no-one's surprise that dark clouds and light drizzle greeted the players when they arrived at the ground.

Conditions were dry when Tim Paine won the toss and elected to bat on a belting-looking pitch.

However, rain never seemed far away and play was delayed for two hours after lunch as the 12-strong ground staff battled to keep the covers on the square.

When play did finally resume it was stopped once again, this time due to a rogue chip packet - much to the chagrin of Stuart Broad - who was halted twice in his run-up by a distracted Marnus Labuschagne.

Bails then fell foul to the howling wind after umpires Kumar Dharmasena and Marais Erasmus admitted defeat in their numerous efforts to keep them on top of the stumps

This brought fourth umpire Rob Bailey onto the field, but not with heavier bails as expected but a replacement cap for the avuncular Erasmus who evidently had no interest in chasing his white floppy number across the square.

Uncovered stumps were then in play for 15 minutes while new bails were being hastily made courtesy of a hammer and four nails.