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Message: [QUOTE="Bucking Beads, post: 2641098, member: 2210"] Found this Poem about Phillip Hughes online. Had me in tears. [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]The batsman was in great form, his strokes both crisp & clean,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He’d battled to his half century – three figures was his dream.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]On a wicket he’d grown up on against his mates playing for the Blues,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He was battling for a higher selection – he wasn’t going to lose. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]For he’d always been a fighter – the next Bradman they dared to say,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He was unorthodox; they would expose his faults….. but boy could this kid play![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He’d honed his craft in Macksville – a boy playing amongst the men,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He was surely going to wear the green and gold – it was just a case of when.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He’d cut and hooked and slashed his way to get to sixty three,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]And then a ball sat up and beat his blade…. Surely it could not be![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He must have thought ‘how’d I miss that chance to smash another four?’ [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]As eleven white clothed angels cradled him on the green SCG floor. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He’s padded up in heaven now – on the best wicket he’s even seen,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Facing up to the worlds best bowlers, he desperately wants that Baggy Green.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]For he is forever chasing the thirty seven more runs he needs for that century[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]And the glory, the mateship, that chance to shine - sadly it cannot be.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]We’ve lost a gem in Hughesy – Test cricketer number 408,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]He was about to step up once again. This time he’d be great.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Twenty six Tests isn’t enough – we wish you’d had some more,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]You’ve left us far too early – our tears wont flow, they’ll pour.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]So raise your bat Phillip Hughes – a champion there is no doubt,[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Forever in our hearts you remain – 63 not out.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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