Ashes Poetry

Albion Underground regrets to announce significant delays to the arrival of the next wicket on the Victory Line.
This is due to engineering works not following on and proceeding as expected, although we are doing as much as we can to rectify the situation by deployment of a new ball.
However Albion Underground would like to make [...]

I tell a lie. Yesterday there were kids at the ground. About a dozen seats down from me in the upper tier of the Edrich stand after lunch a young boy gripped and polished his brand new MCC ball as though he was opening the England attack from the Nursery End. Never mind the ball was doubtless made on the Indian sub-continent, probably by a boy or girl about as young and quite possibly for the sweatiest of sweat shop wages.