It’s coming home
It’s coming home
It’s coming
Cricket’s coming home
Everyone seems to know the score
They’ve seen it all before
They just know
They’re so sure
Somerset’s
Gonna throw it away
Gonna blow it away
But I know they can play
Cos I remember
A [Mythical creature of disputed nomenclature]* on a shirt
Games on YouTube streaming
All those years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
So many jokes, so many sneers
But all those oh-so-nears
Wear you down
Through the years
But I still see:
Smeed and Banton unleashed
A TKC run feast
Matt Henry running in
And the Green machine
A [Mythical creature of disputed nomenclature]* on a shirt
Games on YouTube streaming
All those years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
Now for the third time in a row
To Edgbaston we go
We can win
We all know
Because we have
Louie G keeping calm
Sodhi turning his arm
Tom Abell in the field
And Craig O’s big hands
A [Mythical creature of disputed nomenclature]* on a shirt
Games on YouTube streaming
All those years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
I know that was then but it could be again
It’s coming home
It’s coming home
It’s coming
Cricket’s coming home
*For better scansion please insert ‘Dragon’ or ‘Wyvern’ depending on your position on this most contentious of issues!
Other ill-advised attempts at cricket verse:
To read ‘Twas the week of the final’, click here
To read ‘On passing a village cricket club at dusk one late November afternoon’ click here
To read ‘I’ve got a little CRICKET list’, click here
To read ‘How the Grinch stole from county cricket…or at least tried to’. click here
To read ‘My love is not a red, red rose , click here
To read ‘A Song for Brian’, click here
To read ‘How Covid-19 stole the the cricket season’, click here
To read ‘Eve of the RLODC limericks’ click here
To read ‘A Song for Ben Green’, click here
Other cricket prose:
To read ‘Sharing the important things: introducing your grandchild to cricket’, click here
To read ‘Cigarettes, Singles, and Sipping Tea with Ian Botham: Signs of a Well Spent Youth!’, click here
To read ‘Bazball, Bazchess, Bazlife’, click here
To read ‘Lewis Calpaldi – Retired Hurt?’, click here
To read ‘Online criticism: it’s just not cricket’, click here
To read ‘Cricket: It’s All About Good Timing’, click here
To read ‘A Tale of Two Tons’, click here
To read ‘A Somerset Cricket Players Emporium’, click here
To read ‘A Cricket Taunt’, click here
To read ‘Scooby Doo and the Mystery of the Deseted Cricket Ground’, click here
To read ‘Brian and Stumpy visit The Repair Shop’, click here
To read ‘A Cricketing Christmas Carol’, click here
To read ‘At Season’s End’, click here
To read ‘A Historic Day’, click here
To read ‘Cricket – through thick and thin’, click here
To read ‘Stumpy – a legend reborn’, click here
To read ‘A Cricket Tea Kind of a Day’, click here
To read ‘A Day at the Cricket’, click here
To read ‘The Great Cricket Sell Off’, click here
To read ‘Life in the slow lane’, click here
To read ‘Frodo and the Format of Power’, click here
To read ‘If Only’, click here
To read ‘Somerset v Nottinghamshire T20 Quarter Final 2023’, click here
To read ‘Enough Said…’, the last section of which is cricket related, click here
A Jack Leach Trilogy:
To read ‘For when we can’t see why’, click here
To read ‘WWJD – What would Jack Do?’, click here
To read ‘On Playing a Blinder’, click here
To read ‘Coping with Disappointment’, click here
And now a couple of cricket blogs with a theological flavour
To read ‘Somerset CCC – Good for the soul’, click here
To read ‘Longing for the pavilion whilst enjoying a good innings’, click here
Some musings 