Love you Thorpey
Nuggety nudger & nurdler
Thorpey did embody
Epitomise, personify Test Cricket
Someone small standing tall
Reliant defiant giant but
Fragile and flawed
Did he know he was adored?
Cricket was his safe place
In the 90's nadir
Thorpey gave us solace
Succour..grace & cheer
Resilience & Brilliance
Beacon of light
Shining bright hark back
Dancing in the dark
Having a lark on
That Karachi night
Thorpey had the class
To topple Murali & Vaas
Wasim..king of swing & seam
Said he was best
Test southpaw he ever saw
Thorpey was really that good
Do you think he understood?
With the wood..own
Homegrown Robin Hood
Heroic & stoic raid
Stellar superstars slayed
Who plied their trade
During a golden generation.
Thorpey inspired and fired
Our salvation, resurrection
Regeneration as a cricketing nation
It doesn't get much bloody better than that!
Remember it was still ours!
No chagrin at the paywall
Mandarin sins appall
No red ball for us all.
Surrey & Lions Test legend
Rasping Demons descend
Grasping at the end
Gasping..quite simply
We lost a friend!
Not a toff from
The rank & file
Working class pass
No faff or fuss
Like us, one of us, the best of us
We cooed as he wooed us with the bat
That style to beguile trait..
Gratitude for the plenitude of fortitude
Attitude..gumption at every latitude he imbued
Hat do doff...a true first rate great
Touched, tickled & tinged by genius
Love you Thorpey..rest in power mate
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