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Waggers
In cricket what is the definition of Stoic?
Who is the limited edition who debunks tradition
Who is the true rendition of heroic?
Pay heed to a rare breed from a special creed
The house of flying daggers
Batters staggers and Waggers swaggers
Because Neil..our man of steel…was the real deal indeed..
Weirdly underrated not celebrated and venerated
Part of the rated trio with brio but always number 3
Behind those more mellow humdinger swingers
In the Kiwi’s finest trifecta for any selector
As heaven sent as fellow lefty Trent and Timmy Southee
Hear the naysayers…but you could pick Waggers as not just
The latest but greatest of all unorthodox players
In the frame with Murali as the top name
In the hall of fame of alternative masters of this game
Not that tall or particularly quick but his trick
Gives it his all..could literally run through a brick wall..
Gall with the ball to enthrall..heart on his sleeve…will always believe..
Our mother load would goad..could explode even on a road..gives every ounce..
When it matters..Waggers will pounce and trounce
Shatters batters who flounce at endless bounce
That time when still in his prime he bowled with a broken toe
Here we go - the Waggers gung-ho..bravado…gusto show
Watch him prowl….that demonic scowl….the supersonic howl
That death stare…his flair to scare and boy he really did care…
Animosity and ferocity if not velocity on the square cavorting
With sporting lachrymosity when they said he was done
From the limelight to the twilight…
No Southee leisurely stroll into the sun
The bitter blow…was rotten how Waggers was so crudely
Given the heave ho..and rudely forgotten
Told to go…wounds never healed but still
Shrewdly toiled and foiled on the field
After 17 years…more tears as he said tally ho..
Finally won the Plunkett Shield
Now this mighty bowling beast will feast..get his bounty
Up in the North East of Blighty for his new county
Won’t snarl and ripsnort again on these shores
Departed in Dunners where it all started for this
Star of any cast from the past..his final encores
Our genie in the jar with the last of his many five-fors
Which is why we should let our fall guy know
Saffa jaffa and heroic stoic Kiwi
Sitting pretty at the top of the tree
Alongside canny Hadlee & Danny Vettori
And your other brothers in that famous 3
Our affinity ..for the trinity for infinity
That remember won the first ever WTC
Copyright ©
Toby Bennett
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