THEY say playing sport is thirsty work, well how about watching it?

One young boy has become an internet sensation after Channel 10 captured him on the big screen chowing down on a watermelon at the Big Bash tonight, HeraldSun reports.

There’s been heaps of tweets and Facebook posts using #watermelonboy, which has the hashtag trending no.1 in Melbourne and no.2 in Australia.

But the question we’re all asking is, how on earth did he take the first bite?

Maybe his dad, SEN radio reporter and host Tony Schibeci, knows the answer ...

Turnball considering a frontbench reshuffle to include #watermelonboy pic.twitter.com/cVET1zqbuI — Peter Higginbotham (@PeterHiggo) January 2, 2016