Yes, I wrote a cricket one, which has since been named 'A Quick Single' -
worked on a bit and now housed in my book One Hour Seeds Another (Walleah
Press, 2014) . It has a preamble which attributes a question about cricket
to Tatjana ... maybe I spelt Tatiana wrong? Well remembered Doug!
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On 1 January 2016 at 04:28, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> hang on wasn't long stop? at least here in UK
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Patrick McManus
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 5:24 PM
> To: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>
> Subject: Re: Long on - a cricket poem
>
> Andrew!! could well be they were going on about Melbourne Cricket??
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Barbour
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 4:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Long on - a cricket poem
>
> Don’t remember exactly, but see to recall Andrew had a snap about cricket
> way back when…
>
> Doug
>
>> On Dec 31, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> with my memory and over 10 years of snaps and what thousands of poems I
>> open it up to the group -perhaps one of our keen sports poets or at least a
>> memory!!cheers P
>> wasn't you Max???
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 2:21 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Long on - a cricket poem
>>
>> I don't, Pat. Remind me ...
>>
>> On Thursday, 31 December 2015, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Bill do you rember we had a poem snap some years????? ago about long on? I
>>> remeber that was when I was forced to play the game my favourite
>>> (favorite!!) position -safe!!
>>> new years greetings
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:15 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Long on - a cricket poem
>>>
>>> Thanks, Max, Pat, even Doug.
>>>
>>> Here's the good oil on the googly, called by Shane Warne at some point, a
>>> 'zooter' just to further scare the pants off batsmen.
>>>
>>> While a normal leg break <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_break>
>>> spins
>>> from the leg to the off side
>>> <
>>>
>>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielding_(cricket)#Off_and_leg_side_fields
>>> >,
>>> away from a right-handed batsman <
>>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batsman
>>> >,
>>> a googly spins the other way, from off to leg, into a right-handed
>>> batsman
>>> (and is distinct from an off break
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_break> delivery). The bowler
>>> achieves
>>> this change of spin by bending the wrist sharply from the normal leg
>>> break
>>> delivery position. When the ball
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_ball> rolls out of the hand
>>> (from
>>> the side near the little finger
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_finger>, as in a normal leg
>>> break),
>>> it emerges with clockwise spin (from the bowler's point of view). A
>>> googly
>>> may also be achieved by bowling the ball as a conventional leg break, but
>>> spinning the ball further with the fingers just before it is released.
>>>
>>> The change of wrist action can be seen by a skilled batsman and the
>>> change
>>> of spin allowed for when playing a shot at the ball. Less skilled
>>> batsmen,
>>> or ones who have lost their concentration, can be deceived completely,
>>> expecting the ball to move one direction off the pitch
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_pitch>, only for it to move the
>>> other direction. If the batsman is expecting a leg break, he will play
>>> outside the line <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_and_length> of
>>> the
>>> ball after it spins. This means the ball can either strike the pads for a
>>> potential lbw <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_before_wicket>
>>> appeal,
>>> or may fly between the bat and the pads and hit the wicket
>>> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicket>.
>>>
>>> The googly is a major weapon in the arsenal of a leg spin bowler, and can
>>> be one of the bowler's most effective wicket taking balls.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bill, a dud fieldsman who could no more deliver a googly than he could
>>> execute a leg glance when batting. Hit ball, run was his mantra.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 30 December 2015, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Funny to think of the details here being obscure to outsiders…
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cricket not for me, but it’s been hard to avoid, and the vocab here
>>>>
>>>> is often bemusing - goggly I know of but couldn’t define -
>>>>
>>>> leggies and offices almost guessable -
>>>>
>>>> the cherry! joke word for that vicious hard red ball …
>>>>
>>>> This poem deserves a place in any anthology of poetry -
>>>> devoted to cricket. Are there such?
>>>>
>>>> Max (gave up cricket in 1949)
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 13:29, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
>>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Dud fieldsmen get captain-directed right
>>>> > down on the fence, miles from mid-innings
>>>> > action, when no one is likely to take
>>>> > a swipe and test your unreliable hands.
>>>> >
>>>> > At change of overs, you either bolt
>>>> > down the other end or get slight relief
>>>> > by holding down mid-off for an over
>>>> > where at least conversation is audible.
>>>> >
>>>> > Once in a blue googly, someone swats
>>>> > a sitter to you in close and if you manage
>>>> > to dispel your panic and actually swallow
>>>> > the catch, you will know true gratitude.
>>>> >
>>>> > Normally restrained leggies and offies,
>>>> > unlike their wild-haired, truculent
>>>> > cousin quicks, will gather you up,
>>>> > tousle your hair and grin goofily,
>>>> >
>>>> > pretending they planned the trap.
>>>> > But mostly, fielding is a lonely business,
>>>> > hearing distant thunks as the cherry
>>>> > arcs off where others congregate.
>>>> >
>>>> > Late in the innings, you may be offered
>>>> > another reprieve, closer to the popping
>>>> > crease but equally isolated - deep fine
>>>> > leg - on the off chance of picking up
>>>> >
>>>> > a skewed hook or a keeper's miss.
>>>> > On TV, balls glide across bowling green
>>>> > -like surfaces but in the suburbs, any-
>>>> > thing can happen as balls spit and jump
>>>> >
>>>> > over mis-mown, crevice-cracked buffalo
>>>> > grass. A sweep along the ground can
>>>> > leap up and collect you in the teeth.
>>>> > But must not fray your focus. Just don't
>>>> >
>>>> > let that ball get to the boundary.
>>>> > Sorts you, fielding. You're there
>>>> > for the duration of afternoon,
>>>> > holding down a position.
>>>> >
>>>> > bw
>>>>
>>>>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
>
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Andrew
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