Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

118 With outcricket cruel as a cat To pounce on the perilous snick As it breaks on the spin-harried bat. On this turf the remembered of rugby, “The Invincibles”, came by their name, And now, in the calm of the clubhouse, Frown down from their old-fashioned frame. Their might has outlived their moustaches, For photos fade faster than fame; And his cricket rekindles the temper Of their high trampling, scrummaging game: As intense as an Eisteddfod anthem It burns down the day like a flame. 1. G.Sobers with B.Scovell: Twenty Years at The Top (Macmillan, 1998). 2. P.M.Walker, It’s not just Cricket (Fairfield Books, 2006). 3. Western Mail , 30 August 1977. 4. D.Farmer, The Life and Times of Swansea RFC (DFPS, 1995). 5. Drawn from notes in the BBC Written Archives Centre in Reading. File R30/3572/1 Welsh Rugby Union (Outside Broadcasts), 1927-1939. Thanks to Dr. Daryl Leeworthy for his assistance with this research. 6. Ibid. 7. J.Arlott, Basingstoke Boy: The Autobiography (Fontana, London,1992). 8. David Rayvern-Allen quoted on www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/ 5434-dylan-thomas-john-arlott.html 9. J.Arlott, op.cit. 10. Ibid 11. Published in the Bishop Gore School CC Tercentenary Brochure, published for their Cricket Festival in July 1982. Sixes at Swansea Eifion Jones catches Bob Taylor, watched by Peter Walker in their Championship match against Derbyshire at Swansea in 1970.