'I'm in India and I was dealing with all the stuff through Australia. Unfortunately, I am probably the fool in this situation.

'How our situation works is we get the Twitter from Phillip and I feed them into our IT guy. I don't think there was that much of a secret. The team were looking to make some changes to suit the conditions so I don't think there was anything that was too big a surprise.

'I spoke to CA, they are very supportive of what players do on and off the field. They know this was an innocent situation.'

However, CA were keen to draw a line under the situation. 'The information on Twitter was clearly a mishap, I have spoken to the guy who put it up,' another spokesman, Peter Young, said.

'He was very apologetic and agreed to take it down. Phil Hughes was not aware it had gone up on his behalf. We encourage players to engage with the public and use those channels but within the process and not before selectors have officially published the team.'

Hughes has been replaced by the Queensland all-rounder Shane Watson.