PICK YOURSELF UP by Desmond Kelly Pick yourself up, dust yourself off & start all over again”. Phrases, hardly used nowadays, “tell the story” so very well. I direct this one to “Australian Cricket”. For so many years, Australia “ruled the roost” as far as cricket was concerned. The Aussie “elevens” were condidered almost impossible to beat, and it didn’t really matter as to whether they were “Test-matches”, O.D.I’s, or the big-bash 20/20 matches they played. Then, as I have written before, Aussie Cricket Teams, with the possible exception of the Womens’ Cricket Team, seemed to “lose it”. The Gentleman’s Game, as it truly was, in the Bradman/Benaud eras was gone. The “latter” teams, while also very good, began to think that they HAD to win every game they played. If perchance they were winning a match, it was quite noticible that they were totally relaxed, smiled dinkum Aussie smiles & went ...