Cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew has been reprimanded by the BBC for a sending a series of foul-mouthed messages to a fellow journalist on Twitter.
Agnew, who has been the BBC’s cricket correspondent since 1991, objected to a column by The Independent’s Jonathan Liew which took issue with the way some commentators – Agnew included – had questioned what impact the inclusion of foreign-born bowler Jofra Archer would have on England’s team culture.
Agnew, who earns between £180,000 and £189,999 as the BBC’s cricket correspondent, initially threatened to resign from the Cricket Writers’ Club in protest.
It has now emerged that the 59-year-old subsequently sent a series of private messages to Liew in which he called him a “c**t” on three occasions.
He wrote: “I’m going no further on the advice of people I have heard back from who know you and think you are a c**t. I know you are. Think on.
