{"id":4700,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4700"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:50:50","slug":"on-watching-graham-swann-at-edgbaston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/o-poems\/on-watching-graham-swann-at-edgbaston\/","title":{"rendered":"On Watching Graham Swann at Edgbaston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On Watching Graham Swann at Edgbaston<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on August 7, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nMagnificent bowling with passion and pace<br \/>\nProvides an excitement that&#8217;s hard to replace<br \/>\nBut give me a spinner who gives it a tweak<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glued to the action unable to speak<\/p>\n<p>When batting looks easy and scoring is fast<br \/>\nYou cheer at your heroes and watch for the blast<br \/>\nBut study in silence so nothing is missed<br \/>\nWhen watching a spinner who gives it a twist<\/p>\n<p>At pace there is fire and a batsman takes care<br \/>\nAvoiding a bouncer that&#8217;s parting his hair<br \/>\nBut when things are slower and spin is involved<br \/>\nThe puzzles are tougher and seldom resolved<\/p>\n<p>With clouds hanging low and close, heavy feel<br \/>\nThe pacemen swing seamers like dancing a reel<br \/>\nBut bring out the sun on a dry dusty track<br \/>\nAnd leg-breaks and off-breaks will lead the attack<\/p>\n<p>I love to watch cricket with batsmen on top<br \/>\nA knight wields a sword and you swear he won&#8217;t stop<br \/>\nBut cricket is Cricket, a capital C<br \/>\nWhen spinners turn prose into sweet poetry<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve Laker and Warney and Lock on my mind<br \/>\nO&#8217;Reilly and Grimmett the best you can find<br \/>\nI&#8217;d die to watch Bradman and Hobbs at their best<br \/>\nBut give me my spinners and I&#8217;m at the test!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Watching Graham Swann at Edgbaston by cricketjeff on August 7, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Magnificent bowling with passion and pace Provides an excitement that&#8217;s hard to replace But give me a spinner who gives it a tweak I&#8217;m glued to the action unable to speak When batting looks easy and scoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9732,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4700","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=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6808,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4700\/revisions\/6808"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}