Gavaskar Calypso
The game of cricket has inspired much poetry, most of which romanticises the sport and its culture. Poems Cricket: An Heroic Poem :Hail, cricket, Glorious, manly, British Game! ::First of all Sports! be first alike in Fame. The poem by James Love (poet), James Love is too long to quote in full; above are its opening two lines. It describes a match in 1744 between Kent and England. It is written in rhyming couplets. According to H.S. Altham, it "should be in every cricket lover's library" and "his description of the game goes with a rare swing". The poem is the first substantial piece of literature about cricket. At Lord's Poet: Francis Thompson : It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, :: Though my own red roses there may blow; : It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, :: Though the red roses crest the caps, I know. : For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast, : And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost, : And I l ...
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