Let’s Talk Cricket

Posted on March 29, 2015 Updated on March 29, 2015

I talk of cricket quite infrequently,

as most would be nonplussed and mystified:

to them it is a total mystery.

If I said, oh the bowler bowled a wide,

you’d smile, then shake your head and turn away,

or what if I said,  caught on the on side?

A flipper or a chinaman I’d say,

while knowing that you didn’t have a clue,

as you would ask, bemused, well what are they?

The tail is wagging, will they see it through?

A common term when trying for a draw,

must seem like speaking double Dutch to you.

So now you’re stumped, you can’t take any more

and I’ve just hit you’re fastest ball for four !

– A Terza Rimma Sonnet, by Black Narcissus

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