5 famous songs written about cricketers

 Almost every cricket fan is familiar with Roy Harper's famous cricket song 'When an old cricketer leaves the crease'. Cricket songs are nothing new. 'Lillian Thomson', written on a mythical woman fast bowler by Stilgoe who was tired of hearing 'Lillee and Thompson through England' on the radio, proved to be quite a rage during the 1974-75 Ashes series – so much so that the commentators stopped calling them Lillee and Thompson and referred to them as Thomson and Lillee instead.When it comes to cricket songs, there is certainly no shortage of rich and funny anecdotes. "The Parable of Glenn McGrath's Haircut" by TISM (This Is Serious Mum), the lyrics of most of which is unpublishable, is considered by many to be an accurate portrait of the Australian fast bowler. A song markedly different but extremely interesting because of its chutney style is a tribute to Chanderpaul sung by a local fan in Guyana.'Cotton's Cricket Song', written by Reynell Cotton in 1776, master at Hyde Abbey School and one-time president of the Hambledon Club, is widely considered to be the oldest cricket song to have been written. Blues, jazz, calypsos, reggae, rock and roll, soca, Bollywood, pop - all genres of songs have been written on cricket.But in this article, we  will look at 5 famous songs which have been written about cricketers.

#5 \'Jiggery Pokery\' by Duckworth and Lewis

In the summer of 2009, an eccentric cricket album titled 'The Duckworth Lewis Method' was released by Messrs. Duckworth and Lewis (well, not the Duckworth and Lewis you know about). The album which was an unabashed tribute to cricket and its institutions included some of the most remarkable cricket songs. One such song titled 'Jiggery Pokery' was written from the perspective of Mike Gatting while facing the ‘ball of the century’ from Shane Warne.

The chorus goes: "It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery/ How did he open me up?/ Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery./ Out for a buggering duck./ What a delivery,/ I might as well have been, /holding a contra bassoon. / Jiggery pokery who was this nobody,/ making me look a buffoon?/ Like a blithering old buffoon.