Ian Bell
Ode to Ian Bell
O Belly, Belly.
Your off-drive is a dream.
You have scored Test centuries in Faisalabad, Chester-le-Street and Leeds.
And who can forget your 135 against Lungley and Dumelow at Derby in 2001?
Belly.
Giant amongst pigmies.
And let's not forget yout nifty spell of medium-pace against Middlesex at Lord's in 2004.
Four for four.
Devastating.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Don Bradman.
O Ian Ronald Bell.
You have scored runs all over the universe.
But Belly,
Will you ever do what Tavare did in 1981?
Score a Test ton in Delhi.
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Brian Halford - Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Oh Brian man of many words
Constantly dodging Seagull terds
As a kid did lots of Blarney stone Kissing
But what else do you do when your action man's s missing.
He makes you think,He makes you smile,
Come and have lunch and sit a while
Steve Rouse.
He lives in a house.
He mows, he sweeps, he rolls.
And he makes sure the Edgbaston square
Is free from moles.
There was a young lady named Hall,
Wore a newspaper dress to a ball.
The dress it caught fire,
And burned her entire
Front page, sports section, and all
Jack Sprat would eat no fat
His wife would eat no lean.
Nick Knight's big broad bat
Should still at the crease be seen.
Nick retired too early.
Probly because Batch was so surly
What's with all the poetry Halford?
You can spot a man about to be off on holiday......
Brian, Brian,
We love what you write,
But it's just a shame,
That your poetry's...not very good.
There's a lot to be said for poetry.