"If..."
If you can keep your head when all on court
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust Bally when all men doubt him,
But allow for his call of "Right Hand !" too:
If you can call “Wait” and not be run out by Whiteley,
Or being Run Out, retire to the cage,
Or being hated by Redbourn, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t play too well, nor appeal in rage;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Howard and with Hedges
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by Rupes to make a trap for prats,
Or watch the innings you gave your life to, broken,
Leaving no option but to throw your bats;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one Callender full toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss (to bloody Final CC):
If you can force your Hubbard, Cobb and Cardy
To serve their turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with Willo and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Spence —and not lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor Pete Makower hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving hour
With fifty singles worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be an Indoor League Champion, my son!
MoM : It's Saddam Skip with 50* in 31 balls in the last game. Fitting.
Thanks to everyone who put on their plimsolls and got themselves out there one mo' time.
Curried AGM still on for 6/1/2012 with speeches asnd awards. You'd be mad to miss it.....
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