Just over twenty years ago

I was lucky enough

To attend the final test

Between England and India

It was a very tight match

Which was decided by the last ball

F.W.J.Spencer hit an enormous six

England won by two runs

But the match was surrounded in mystery

As the last ball was never found

It simply disappeared after it had left Spencer’s bat

I am the only person who knows where the ball is now

As I found it in the back of my green jeep

On the morning after the game

Although I was tempted I never returned the ball

It now sits on my mantelpiece in Deal

Between the mirror clock and my ceramic bus