Ground knitted green with barely a missed
stitch
Smoothed by curators’ love and care and
hope
But all eyes drift to the sunbaked bald
pitch –
Can bowlers clinch or will the batsmen
cope?
The home team fields in baggy greens and
creams.
The catching men fidget and sneer and
sledge,
Hardened by their rise to reach boyhood
dreams
They’ve never wavered from their starstruck
pledge.
Lusty blows race away and spread the field
To deep midwicket and backward square leg.
Chin music plays to bid the batsmen yield,
Good-length balls swing to dislodge offside’s peg.
Thousands watch on as if they’re in a
trance
And there’s five days more of this gritty
dance.
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