Cricket Cheats Poem by narayana aghalaya

Cricket Cheats



Cricket Cheats (limerick)

Smith and co put grit and tape on ball
with that, team, nose-dived to a big fall
the altered ball's mean flick
like Indian rope trick,
is a shame; but they even had the gall
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Sunday, March 25, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: cheating,sports
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The Australian cricket team has admitted to ball tampering in current test series against South Africa.
have the gall to do something:
to do something rude and unreasonable that most people would be too embarrassed to do
from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

India's rope trick - practiced during 19th century. was synonymous with cheating. It involved a thick rope inside a basket; a fakir would play an instrument called pungi and the rope would uncurl and start rising and levitate; on which a small boy would climb and disappear!
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