The Australian poet Les Murray wrote "The Aboriginal Cricketer":


Good-looking young man

in your Crimean shirt

with your willow shield

up, as if to face spears,

you're inside their men's Law,

one church they do obey;

they'll remember you were here.

Keep fending off their casts.

Don't come out of character.

Like you they suspect

idiosyncrasy of witchcraft.

Above all, don't get out

too easily, and have to leave here

where all missiles are just leather

and come from one direction.

Keep it noble. Keep it light.