AB
Allan Banjo Border was Australia’s cricket captain who rewrote the record books AB © was a testy bugger (156 outings, 265 innings) with stubby chin & baggy green eyes A leftie, he took a swag of wickets a tuckerbag of runs & a dilly of dolly catches Saw active service in the Caribbean & routed the Boers when Cronjie surrendered Survived the dark days of the ’86 drought v. the Kiwis A balladeer with the bat, AB penned Happy Dispatches about droving to distant boundaries & fielding behind the sliprail to Clancy’s overthrows Breaker of partnerships, horses & shed windows, he could shear an attack for sheep stations & even slambang free selectors but would always lose out to Henry Lawson in a bush bash His bails were finally dislodged in May ’94 by the ACB leaving AB stumped speechless but for Paterson’s curse & a bittersweet taste of the ashes
Michael Small published The Mozzie, April, 2004
May 15, 1994