Here's the cricketing version of Pete Seeger's little ditty: "Little boxes in the sports shop Little boxes are for cricketers Little boxes made of plastic Little boxes, all the same. There's a white one and a pink one And one made of aluminium For the tender bits of cricketers And it still hurts quite a lot. "And the batsmen still get injured And get impotent and quite undignified 'Cos a short ball in the boxes Hurts the ballses quite a lot; There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one With a sprinkling of aluminium And it still hurts quite a lot." Accredited to English west country singer Fred Wedlock. Source: Allen, David Rayvern; A Song For Cricket,published by Pelham Books, London, c1981.
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