It Isn't Cricket
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[". ... At the moment the Empire team is batting on a sticky wicket and the Axis fast bowlers have had some success. Our best bats have still to go in and score ... ,’’--recent message to. Australia from Dominions’ Office.] F War were like Cricket, and all A matter of playing the Game With Willow and Wicket and Ball, With a similar innocent AimIt piling up Runs Were the Purpose of Guns It the direst of Hits That a Bomber could score Were a Six or a Four, Or Bodyline Bowling a BlitzYes, granted all This . It might not be amiss, : No, it mightn’t be Nonsense to say That the Wicket is sticky, The Bowling is tricky, In the Match with the Axis to-day! But War isn’t Cricket-Oh, no! Oh, War isn’t Yorkshire v. Hants, When all of the Slips Carry Guns at their Hips, Yes, Tommy-guns strapped to their Tiss You may call it a Fast or a Slow, The Ball that a Bomber sends down, But a Bomb is a Thing With a deadlier Swing Than Any the Oval has known! Such curious Cricket was never Enjoyed in the oldest of Schools; It’s a Game where the Players endeavour (Not flannelled, and surely not Fools!) To knock up a Million While in the Pavilion The Devil’s rewriting the Rules!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 143, 20 March 1942, Page 4
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224It Isn't Cricket New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 143, 20 March 1942, Page 4
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