Agnew and his imposter

BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew took the corporation's obsession with interacting with the public a little too far last week.

Agnew was furious about the personal abuse he was being subjected to in the comments section of his Test Match Special blog.

The former Leicestershire bowler had been critical of Kevin Pietersen's character and batting after the third Test against South Africa.

And, needless to say, the punters weren't slow to remind him of the folly of these remarks after Pietersen's heroics as England's new skipper in the final Test.

This left Agnew apoplectic. He logged onto another blog from home late at night and told his critics that they were idiots who knew nothing about cricket.

Following a night's sleep, Agnew realised that this might not have been the wisest thing to do.

So he emailed the website staff asking them if they could put up message saying an imposter had posted the angry messages under his name!

I don't think this would have gone down to well at a corporation rocked by cases of deception for the last two years...