You might yet win the day…

I learned long ago to never deeply

trust the advances made

by the English men

in white and the often cried for

perfect conditions in which to slay

the oldest foe,

yet somehow it has to be said

it’s looking very unlikely

that the front foot is about to come

off the Baggy Green Coat of Arms

wearing Kangeroo and the misinformed

Captain Emu, certainly not

in any way that suggest a quality

of Mercy, not today…

 

…not today, the death of the

Kangeroo Court in which the

Kangeroo could not catch

and the Emu stared deep into the Earth

makes all the Pom bashing

of the late 20^th Century

all the more sweeter and for a while,

although it is to be hoped not long,

that the slow death of Australian Cricket

remains one in which Wisden revels in

all its glory and for the detailed eye

of Aggers sparkles on dark English knights

as he recalls his passing words,

and our own thoughts of

Rest in Peace Australian Cricket,

it was a pleasure to listen

to your demise.

 

Ian D. Hall 2015