Ashes 2015: Australia's entire first innings in one tweet

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• Michael Clarke dejected by one of worst days
• Greg Baum: Australia's blackest day
• Day one: as it happened
• A cricketing disaster by numbers
• British media react to Australia's batting disaster

In the pithy world of Twitter, condensing your thoughts into a mere 140 characters can be a challenge for even the most accomplished wordsmith.

But cricket fans, including ABC election analyst Antony Green, had no such trouble on Thursday night.

The renowned numbers man still had some characters up his sleeve, despite recording in a single tweet every single ball, run and wicket in Australia's humiliating first innings in the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.

For those who - perhaps fortuitously - went to bed and missed the drubbing, this is a recap of Australia's annihilation on the pitch on Thursday night, AEDT:

In fact, dejected captain Michael Clarke's eight-minute press conference at the end of the day's play lasted as long as Australia's first three batsmen did at the crease.

The Australian team might be best served by steering clear of social media, where they've been branded a national embarrassment, and worse.

Even the traditionally staid BBC couldn't contain its shock at the shellacking, encouraging viewers to tweet in their reactions:

Below is a summary of how viewers reacted to one of the bleakest days in Australian cricket in recent years:

Michael Clarke might well be regretting his last tweet, sent on July 29 well before his team's collapse: