Beer to hop down the pitch

With the Australian cricket team performing rather horrendously in the current Ashes series, it seems editors are bored and are showing off their impeccable intellectual fitness in the field of pun-forgery.

After a lacklustre performance by Australian cricketers in my hometown of Adelaide, Hurley-snogging blond spin-king Shane Warne suggested that little-known Western Australian bowler, Michael Beer, would be a good selection for the third test in Perth. In a surprise move, the selectors picked Beer and whether the story was actually rather boring or a distraction was needed from the Aussies' sporting failures, editors seemed to think the news needed a gentle buff with the pun-chamois.

I noticed this headline first:










And after some quick and simple searching I found more and more, they were having a field-day with this one...

"WA spinner Beer in Ashes brew" - AdelaideNow


"Aussies find Beer at bottom of the barrel" - BBC


"Why spinner's rise to Test recognition wasn't all beer and skittles" - SMH
-Extra points for the use of the old-school idiom


"No Beer on England's menu" - Herald Sun


"Struggling Aussies turn to Beer" - lords.org


"Frosty Beer on menu for Perth Test" - ninemsn


"Warne likes WA's Beer" - Sportal

And in the short (I found all of these in about five minutes) search I came across these two headlines related to the story but with no mention of beer, froth, barrels or brewing:

"A well Warne idea" - TheAge

...and my favourite...

"Cricket Australia ask 'who you Warne-a call? - Pom buster!" - Reuters
-come on....have you got aaanything else to do??


Reading all these puns has put me in a froth (sorry)


UPDATE:

Thanks to inked-up fast-bowler Mitchell Johnson, maybe my conclusions about Australia's performance in the cricket were a tad too premature.

UPDATE:

They weren't...