{"id":1993,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1993"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:09:53","slug":"twenty-20","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/t-poems\/twenty-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Twenty 20<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 20, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nTwenty 20 is proper cricket<br \/>\nPlayed at the highest rate<br \/>\nFor a big six or for a wicket<br \/>\nYou won\u2019t have to wait<br \/>\nOpening bowler bowls a yorker<br \/>\nSpinner tosses high<br \/>\nBatsman with enormous backlift<br \/>\nTries to hit the sky<br \/>\nSpectators need to wear a crash hat<br \/>\nUmpires duck and weave<br \/>\nBatsman has to use his best bat<br \/>\nBowlers will deceive<br \/>\nTen an over\u2019s what you aim for<br \/>\nSix is much too slow<br \/>\nHit each ball and make a good score<br \/>\nGive the fans a show<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nI am watching India play Australia in a Twenty 20 match at the moment and that<br \/>\nreminded me that I wrote this earlier in the year.<br \/>\nTwenty 20 is the shortest and fastest form of top level cricket, a new<br \/>\ninnovation and has proved much better than many of us old stick-in-the-muds<br \/>\nfeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty 20 by cricketjeff on October 20, 2007.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Twenty 20 is proper cricket Played at the highest rate For a big six or for a wicket You won\u2019t have to wait Opening bowler bowls a yorker Spinner tosses high Batsman with enormous backlift Tries to hit the sky Spectators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9748,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1993\/revisions\/9514"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}