© ‘ The Cricket Match’ … Pen & Wash – WHB – March 2017
CRICKET
Roll up, Roll up
And buy your ticket
Rejoice and thrill
At the game of CRICKET
Bowlers bowl
Fielders field
Batsmen bat
Never yield
Keepers keep
And catchers catch
All this happens
In a cricket match
Strikers strike
And hitters hit
Sloggers slog
Lickety-split
Floaters float
Beamers beam
Chuckers chuck
While seamers seam
Umpires umpire
Scorers score
Strikers strike
Can’t ask for more
Spinners spin
Sledgers sledge
Captains captain
At the cutting edge
Drivers drive
And blockers block
Bouncers bounce
Eye on the clock
Grafters graft
And Hackers hack
Hookers hook
Better stand back
Openers open
Swingers swing
Sweepers sweep
‘Cos that’s their thing
Oft played upon
A sticky wicket
Best sport of all
The game of CRICKET
As in all sports, cricket has over its long history built up a long list of specialist vocabulary, or jargon. I have attempted to incorporate some of this specialist language in my verses.
My pen and wash painting is of a scene at the Heathcoat Cricket Club in Mid-Devon.
The game of cricket has been played on this ground since the late 19th Century.
The ground itself is one of the few to be found actually within the grounds of a National Trust property – that of Knightshayes Court , in the village of Bolham, near Tiverton.
Roland's Ragbag 