14 August 2007

Poetic licence

Here's a trivia question for you:

Which well known figure removed whom as his only career first-class wicket, such that he penned the following verse in celebration?

Out-beyond question or wrangle!
Homeward he lurched to his lunch!
His bat was tucked up at an angle,
His great shoulders curved to a hunch.

Answers on a postcard (or comment form) please!

2 comments:

Mark Davis said...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and W.G.?

David said...

Elementary, my dear Mavis! Indeed, Sherlock Holmes author Conan Doyle once took the prized wicket of the great W. G. Grace. It was his first and only strike at first class level.