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Cricket, A Sport In Verse (Audiobook)
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Read by Tim Graham, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 57mins)

Featuring poems by Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll & others.

As the Sun lengthens its days to Summer so a sport begins to dominate the thoughts and actions of many people. This game so encapsulated of village greens, of evening song, of Middle England is now spread far across the world.  From the marathon of a 5 day test to the razzle dazzle excitement of 20 Twenty it captures many things; the comforting sound of willow on leather, the slow raised hand of an umpire, the arcane rules and frequent breaks for tea and other necessities sill conjure up the image of a bygone world even though its own is now global TV, night matches and Hawk Eye cameras.  

In this volume poets throughout the ages share the agony, the ecstasy and share the pleasure of being part of something very different, very special. 

 

In this compilation - 

01 - Cricket Intro & Music
02 - Cricket At Harrow 
03 - Dedicated To The Famous Notts & Surrey Elevens 
04 - Dad On The Test 
05 - Cricket
06 - Extract from A Shopshire Lad 
07 - Sonnet 
08 - Ballade Of Cricket
09 - Choosing An All England XI In 1896.  Century
10 - The Old Stumper Recites A Piece Of His Own Composing 
11 - Around The Level Dale 
12 - Beirut Wedding Poem 
13 - Lines On A Cricket Match 
14 - At Lords 
15 - Cricket 
16 - Mantra Of The Beast 
17 - A Sixer 
18 - The Vital Question 
19 - That Red Leather Ball 
20 - The Innings 
21 - A Cricket Bowler 
22 - The Church Cricketent 
23 - The Stout Cricketer 
24 - The Cricket Club Of Red Nose Flat 
25 - The Cricket Match 
26 - The Day Before The Weald 
27 - If Every 
28 - Rhyme O'Bat O My Syk-Em 
29 - Arma Virumque 
30 - XI Un-Shackled Melodies 
31 - The Deserted Parks 
32 - Vitai Lampada 
33 - Two Extracts From The Princess 
34 - Song 
35 - A Vacant Place At The Oval