What’s the very rude nickname cricket fans are using for Pat Cummins’ team after Ashes Test win?

Cricket fans have been left dismayed after supporters of Australia‘s team made the rude nickname ‘Cumball’ go viral in the wake of their incredible win in the first Ashes Test on Tuesday.

The term is a take on ‘Bazball’, which has been used to describe the aggressive style England have adopted under coach Brendon McCullum, whose nickname is ‘Baz’.

‘Cumball’ is a cheeky version of that, using the first three letters of Australian skipper Pat Cummins‘ surname.

It spread like wildfire on Twitter in the wake of the thrilling, last-gasp victory to the Aussies at Edgbaston in a match billed as the biggest test of the wildly successful ‘Bazball’ phenomenon so far.

Aussie skipper Pat Cummins launches into a wild celebration after hitting the boundary that defeated England at Edgbaston

The victory saw fans use ‘Cumball’ around 3,000 times as they described Australia’s style of play compared to ‘Bazball’ – the term used for England’s aggressive tactics under coach Brendon ‘Baz’ McCullum 

Cummins starred with the ball before his unbeaten 44 in the second innings got Australia home in one of the greatest Ashes Tests ever played.

Some cricket fans were quick to use ‘Cumball’ online as they celebrated the thrill-a-minute Aussie win – but others were left very unimpressed.

‘CUMBALL > BAZBALL! Hang it in the Louvre!’ one commenter wrote, accompanied by a host of others as the term was used around 3,000 times on Wednesday morning, Australian time.

Other tweets called the win an ‘amazing Cumball performance’, proclaimed that ‘Cumball has defeated Bazball’ and said, ‘Bazball is entertaining, but it’s nothing compared to Cumball.’ 

The backlash didn’t take long to appear. 

‘Bro stop saying cumballl for heaven’s sake,’ one fan shot back, joined by a commenter who wrote, ‘Guys can we not call it CUMBALL. Come with a better term lmao this is wrong,’ accompanied by crying emojis.

The backlash to the new term didn’t take long to surface online (pictured)

Fans tried to nip the new fad in the bud but it was like trying to hold back the tide with a broom

Cummins described the never-say-die win as the finest moment of his cricket career.

‘That’s number one, absolutely,’ he said after his shot through gully found the boundary rope to seal the victory.

‘It felt like almost from the first session of day one, it was 50-50 all the way along.

‘It never felt like it swung too far one way or another. And I reckon that was the same until about 15 minutes to go.’

The Aussie skipper described the win as the finest moment of his career

The skipper also hit a four to give Australia a famous win on his debut in South Africa in 2011, when he was just a teenager.

‘I actually did think back to that debut,’ he said after the last ball at Edgbaston.

At one stage batting out there with Nathan [Lyon] I was thinking back to when he was in the sheds praying in my debut match.’

The second Ashes Test begins at London’s famous Lord’s ground on June 28.