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Champagne reign of Shane
It’s been 3 years since the low blow of nadirs
As we said hooroo to you..goodbye to our top guy
Still feeling...reeling from the pain
Of all the polished veneers of careers
Which is the best palimpsests of Test contests
The class...VIP pass..glass ceiling
Why..has to be the insane arcane Shane gravy train
You know they’re in the hall of fame..like Elvis
When they just get called by their first name
Palpable fears cricket will never ever
Be quite the same game again
Cricketing Gods above showered their love.. on an upstart..
Who didn’t just play his part but resurrected
The respected but sadly neglected.. leg spin art
The vision of befuddling precision and derision lingers
Muddling aplomb of his first ever ball against a Pom
Fingers flipped…it dipped..ripped..nipped..skipped..clipped off stump
A leggy bomb….plump Gatting pipped..down in the dump chump
Standing sentry for the outstanding ball of the century
As Shane twirled & quite simply changed the world of batting
Gandalf's celestial staff...walks the walk...talks the talk
On some extra terrestrial path
And at tother end..you're having a laugh..where
When there's then the zen
Of his old friend Glenn McGrath
Warnie’s masterplan of..flair…elan and despair
Devious...mischievous...had plenty of previous
Alright unfair trite slights about hair implants..highlights
Off the square delights…did revel with rare
On another level.. seedier devil may care flights
Done like a kipper by a ripper
Wannabe chipper skipper's flipper again
One of the game’s greatest readers..media feeder
Greedier...needier..should have been
A hallowed.. not fallowed leader
Memories never wane of how he did forever entertain
A whizz doing the biz with such fizz
Let's ordain the Champagne
Campaign & Reign of Shane!
Copyright ©
Toby Bennett
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