{"id":26345,"date":"2018-06-24T21:15:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T21:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=26345"},"modified":"2018-06-24T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T21:15:30","slug":"cricket-lovely-cricket-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/cricket-lovely-cricket-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET&#8221; by Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8220;CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET&#8221; by Des Kelly<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Irtnn0S4Ko\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">We, lucky people of Australia, have such an abundance of &#8220;entertainment&#8221;to view on our television screens each and every day &amp; night (for insomniacs), it is absolutely incredible. At the moment, I start with the &#8220;News&#8221; on Channel 2, which continues all day on Channel 24. No-one can say that they are not aware of the &#8220;current news&#8221;, unless, of course, they leave &#8220;the box&#8221; switched off all day, which I now do, myself sometimes, when I have to concentrate on &#8220;writing&#8221; for eLanka, our top website in Oz.,or writing &#8220;important e&#8217;mails to various folk, like the Premier of Victoria, for example, offering his Government another &#8220;original composition&#8221; entitled &#8220;It&#8217;s You&#8221;, a Road-Safety Song, entirely gratis, in the hope that if it is &#8220;aired&#8221; at peak-hours, especially, drivers of various vehicles (who generally have their &#8220;radios&#8221; on, as they drive, hear my lyrics and, through pure psychology, try to drive &amp; &#8220;arrive &#8220;SAFELY&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">With the millions of dollars being spent on this most important subject, even if one life is &#8220;saved by a song&#8221;, I then reckon that it would be fully worth the effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">So far, (over a fortnight, now), Mr.Andrews has not acknowledged my e&#8217;mail, and, in the meantime our road-toll keeps rising, people are dying on our roads, others lie, seriously injured, in hospitals around Victoria, families and friends of the victims, in turmoil &amp; our &#8220;Breaking-News&#8221; keeps running amok. I do not say, for one moment, that my song will STOP the road-toll, but, Mr.Premier, this IS worth a try, and it&#8217;s not going to cost you ANYTHING.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">Des, will you stop going off on a bloody tangent,? what the hell has all this got to do with CRICKET ?!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;Well, stop rubbing your balls with sandpaper, stop getting your balls into water-traps on the golf course, stop hitting your balls with your tennis racquets &amp; &#8220;talking balls&#8221; to your tennis referees after smashing your balls AND your racquets, and I&#8217;ll be happy to tell you&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">Even while the &#8220;greatest&#8221; viewer sport in the entire World, &#8220;Aussie-rules&#8221; footy is in progress right now, CRICKET, both local &amp; &#8220;The World-Cup&#8221; is also in sharp focus. When played as it SHOULD be played, cricket is a superb game. I still remember even our inter-inter-collegiate matches played while I was at St,Peter&#8217;s College, Bambalapitiya. The problem here, was that they kept WINNING every match they played. The &#8220;Josephians, Thomians, Royalists, and all the rest did not have a chance. I wonder how many of our Lankan\/Aussies remember that Clive Inman, who was a classmate of mine, scored the &#8220;fastest-fifty&#8221; of that era and got his name into the Guinness book of records, that our Captain, H.I.K.(Herbert,I.K.) not only led the team, he was the ONLY wicket-keeper to &#8220;stump&#8221; Don.Tallon, who was an Englishman, and, the BEST wicket-keeper in the World, at the time. It is a pleasure, even to write about these guys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">I was into sports too, as a boy. I played a fair game of &#8220;ping-pong&#8221; or &#8220;table-tennis&#8221;, even won a little silver cup that could only be viewed through a magnifying glass. Why I even bother to write about all this, I&#8217;ll never know. Anyway, getting back to Cricket, lovely Cricket, let me inform all my readers that, included in about a hundred of my original compositions, are two Calypso&#8217;s. One was &#8220;Calypso-d-Ceylon&#8221; and the other was &#8220;Calypso-d-Windies&#8221;. I did NOT suffer with flatulence at that time, it&#8217;s the West Indies, or more to the point, the West Indian Cricket Team, I am talking about, here. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the exact year, but immediately after beating the Aussies over here, they came to Ceylon, for an exhibition &#8220;match&#8221; I think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">I was in the Royal Ceylon Navy then, so it was possibly in the mud 1950&#8217;s. I had heard so much about this team, I wanted, very much, to see them play, so, being stationed at H.M.Cy.S Gemunu, in Colombo, at the time, I took myself off to the office of the &#8220;Times&#8221; Newspaper in Fort, who were selling the tickets for this special match. When I got there, the queue for tickets was far too long, so I decided that I would go back to barracks and try a different method of securing a ticket. The same day, I sat myself down to write my tribute to this superb cricket team, brought ALL their names into my lyrics, got them typed out, and took this back to the &#8220;Times&#8221; office. There was still a long queue, but being proudly in my uniform, I told the peon in charge, that I wanted to see the Editor with this song I had written &amp; like all Newspaper Editors, anxious for any &#8220;scoop&#8221; they could get, called me into his office and read my &#8220;Calypso&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">He then told me that he couldn&#8217;t pay me for this (so what&#8217;s new)?, but gave me what was called a &#8220;gold-pass&#8221; to the match, which enabled me to actually share the same room with this team, at the ground, for the entire match. I met all these great Cricketers, told them to watch out for my song, dedicated to them, in the next issue of the&#8221;Times of Ceylon&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">&amp; watched them give Lanka a sound beating, after which, they went to India and thrashed the Indian Team as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080; font-size: 20px;\">I remember this West Indian Cricket Team as the best exponents of Cricket, as it was, then. This was my tribute to a wonderful Cricket Team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">&#8220;CALYPSO D\/WINDIES&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">If ever there was any Cricket-Team<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">That hit the &#8220;top-rung&#8221; in the World&#8217;s esteem<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">There wouldn&#8217;t be even the slightest doubt<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">That it&#8217;s the &#8220;Windies&#8221; we are talking about<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">At every &#8220;test-match&#8221; in Australia<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Their&#8217;s, was a much superior game, by far<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">They laughed at mistakes umpire Hoy had made<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">And played bright cricket, as it should be played<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">From Captain Worrel, to their last batsman<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Their one great moral was to &#8220;stand &amp; slam&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The &#8220;Windies&#8221; bowling, it was quite the same<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">With Garfield Sobers, Gibbs &amp; &#8220;Hall&#8221; of fame<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">A man called &#8220;Gerry&#8221;, right behind the stumps<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">No ball got past, despite the &#8220;bumps&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Still another batsmen, full of &#8220;do or die&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Was the West Indies Champ, Rohan Kanhai<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Then Hunte &amp; Cammie Smith were both quite fine<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">So were Ramahadin and Valentine<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">There was bowler Chester Watson, who tried as hard<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">He had all the Aussie batsmen always on their guard<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">And now, a word about their Seymour Nurse<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Who &#8220;mimics&#8221; Nat King Cole &amp; loves to &#8220;mime-in-verse&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The &#8220;Windies&#8221; love to hear him sing his songs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">But, on the cricket field, he still belongs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Wherever they may go, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll cause a &#8220;stir&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Says Gerry Gomez, their team-manager<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">And you can bet, that what he says, is true<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">He knows &#8220;his boys&#8221; much mire than me or you<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Unless you want to see me &#8220;behind bars&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">I must not forget to mention their &#8220;extras&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Cos, in case the &#8216;Windies&#8221; needed any aid<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">They had, in every &#8220;extra&#8221;, men who&#8217;d &#8220;made the grade&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s for their winsome attitude of sheer pluck<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">That we, in Ceylon, wish them all the luck<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">And, while they travel over land and seas<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">May the Lord above keep watch over the &#8220;West Indies&#8221;<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13515 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/desmond-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"desmond kelly\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Desmond Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Star of eLanka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Editor-in-Chief).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;CRICKET, LOVELY CRICKET&#8221; by Des Kelly We, lucky people of Australia, have such an abundance of &#8220;entertainment&#8221;to view on our television screens each and every day &amp; night (for insomniacs), it is absolutely incredible. 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