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"When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease" is a track on the Roy Harper album HQ, a prominent example of cricket poetry. Released as a single twice, in 1975 and 1978, it is possibly Harper's best-known song. The song captures the atmosphere of a village cricket match and is an elegy to
It describes a match in 1744 between Kent and England. It is written in rhyming couplets. According to H.S. Altham, it "should be in every cricket lover's library" and "his description of the game goes with a rare swing". [1] The poem is the first substantial piece of literature about cricket. [citation needed]
William Jeffrey Prowse wrote what was to become one of the most famous pieces of cricket poetry in his memory. The first six stanzas compare Mynn with his contemporaries. The poem closes with these lines: With his tall and stately presence, with his nobly moulded form, His broad hand was ever open, his brave heart was ever warm;
"How M'Dougal Topped The Score" (1898) is a poem by Australian poet Thos. E. Spencer. [1]The poem was originally published in The Bulletin on 12 March 1898, and subsequently reprinted in the author's major collection of poetry, How M'Dougal Topped The Score and Other Verses and Sketches (1906), as well as other poetry anthologies.
Under The Southern Cross I Stand" is the victory song of the Australian cricket team. It is typically sung by the players in the style of a raucous chant [1] after every victory and "treated with reverential consideration and respect" within the team. [2] The official lyrics are as follows. [3] Under the Southern Cross I stand,
Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2, Compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths, Library Association, 1991 (covers the period 1980–1990) J S Penny. Cricket References in Norwich Newspapers 1701 – 1800 (year tbc) Roland Perry. The Don, Sydney, Pan Macmillan, 1995. (ISBN 0-7329-0827-2) Playfair. Playfair Cricket Annual (annually ...
John Nyren (15 December 1764 – 30 June 1837) was an English cricketer and author.Nyren made 16 known appearances in first-class cricket from 1787 to 1817. He achieved lasting fame as the author of The Cricketers of My Time, which was first published in 1832 as a serial in a periodical called The Town and was then included in The Young Cricketer's Tutor, published in 1833 by Effingham Wilson ...
Robert James Pope (24 March 1865 – 12 April 1949) was a New Zealand poet, songwriter, violinist, cricketer, teacher, and headmaster. He became well known in Wellington between 1910 and 1945 for his contributions to the New Zealand Free Lance and the popular 'Postscripts' column in the Evening Post newspaper as well as for his song 'New Zealand, My Homeland' used in New Zealand schools.