shortcuts badge  Tweet after me: The Ashes is not a freaking
cricket match  An American woman using the Twitter name
@theashes has been beseiged by cricket fans looking for updates
from Australia The Ashes urn. The real Ashes: not available on
Twitter. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images  As is so
often the case, the boyfriend is to blame. When Ashley Kerekes
from Massachusetts had her name affectionately shortened to "The
Ashes" she didn't think anything of using this moniker for her
Twitter account – at least not until the actual Ashes began and
cricket fans across the globe started unwittingly namechecking
her in their tweets.  At first, @theashes batted away mentions
with "I'm not the cricket feed", which was soon upped to a
sterner: "Check profiles before you send mentions, it's
incredibly annoying and rude." Finally, she cracked, screaming:
"I AM NOT A FREAKING CRICKET MATCH!!!!!", prompting her cheekier
new followers to respond: "We know, you're a five-day series of
cricket matches, specifically b