IT’S THE START OF THE SEASON
You can feel the pulse race as your eyes meet the day
It’s the start of the season a new game to play
Smell the grass and the linseed and the hops in the beer.
Smell the sweat and the ointments and the oppositions fear.
The elements will battle to take part in the match
A cold south westerly pulls in a rain patch.
But Cricket at Wamil is a marvellous thing
A full fixture list beginning in spring
Can there be anywhere better to spend time of day
It’s the start of the season a new game to play
The finest ground in Suffolk it often been said
Manicured by cutters from a corrugated shed
Willow trees weeping and bursting new bud
While captains with batting orders are chewing the cud
Oh men of Mildenhall take your place on the field
So little net practice that your fate may be sealed
You’ll go to the crease with an ambition to stay
It’s the start of the season a new game to play
Overhead fly the planes of the ultimate battle
While from the pram flies the obligatory rattle
Fielders will stand frozen right through to the core
As like a bullet, the ball goes for four
Muscles that have been dormant for over half a year
Are subject to stretching and the occasional tear
Let battle commence they must join in the fray
It’s the start of the season a new game to play
Men and boys have spent all winter yearning for this day
It’s the start of the season a new game to play.
You can still see the Church while the trees are in bud
Just a few weeks earlier the ground was like mud
The Lark is brimming from the winter rainfall
Now that’s forgotten it’s time for first ball
The bowlers are ready to try a few new tricks
Let those County batsmen know they’re not out in the sticks
New sweaters and trousers look gleamingly white.
And there’s a strong South westerly that got a real bite
Still the men of Mildenhall are happy today
It’s the start of the season and a new game to play
History to be made then compared with ghosts from the past
Early season run rates are rarely that fast
The wicket made flat by the “Killer” green roller
But it won’t dampen the heart of the opening bowler
So once again they are happy and we know the reason
The day has arrived for a new cricket season
Excitement abounds as you go down Wamil Way
It’s the start of the season and a new game to play.
FOOTNOTE
It’s the start of the season and a new game to play.
What a better way to watch than with a pint of IPA
ANON:- 2010