Wallscourt Kelly

{{short description|Australian cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| image =

| country = Australia

| fullname = Wallscourt Steen Kelly

| nickname =

| birth_date = 16 June 1895

| birth_place = Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1952|6|10|1895|6|16|df=yes}}

| death_place = Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia

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| batting = Unknown

| bowling = Unknown

| family =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1924/25–1927/28

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 4

| runs1 = 74

| bat avg1 = 9.25

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 32

| deliveries1 = 432

| wickets1 = 24

| bowl avg1 = 13.58

| fivefor1 = 1

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 6/57

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 17 November

| year = 2022

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/wallscourt-kelly-30253 Cricinfo

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Lieutenant Colonel Wallscourt Steen Kelly (16 June 1895 — 10 June 1952) was an Australian first-class cricketer and British Indian Army officer.

The son of Alex Kelly, he was born in the Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick in June 1895.School captains enlist. The Argus. 25 January 1916. p. 7 Kelly was educated at both Melbourne Grammar School and Geelong Grammar School.{{cite book |title=Liber Melburniensis|publisher=Melbourne Grammar School|year=1965|page=135|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQXuAAAAMAAJ|language=en}} Kelly served in the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, seeing action on the Western Front as a lieutenant. He was wounded at the Polygon Wood during the Third Battle of Ypres in September 1917,The Great War. Townsville Daily Bulletin. 8 April 1918. p. 4 before being appointed to the British Indian Army in March 1918 as a second lieutenant on probation,{{London Gazette|issue=31131|date=17 January 1919|page=915}} with his appointment being confirmed in March 1919.{{London Gazette|issue=31837|date=26 March 1920|page=3679}} By November 1920, he was serving with the 41st Dogras with the rank of temporary captain,{{London Gazette|issue=32325|date=17 May 1921|page=3935}} a rank to which he was appointed to permanently in September 1922.{{London Gazette|issue=32854|date=17 August 1923|page=5632}}

While serving in British India, Kelly played first-class cricket on four occasions for the Europeans cricket team in the Lahore Tournament from 1925 to 1928.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13818/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Wallscourt Kelly|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 November 2022|url-access=subscription}} Playing as a bowler in the Europeans side, he took 24 wickets at an average of 13.58;{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13818/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Wallscourt Kelly|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 November 2022|url-access=subscription}} he took one five wicket haul of 6 for 57 against the Muslims in 1925.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/11/11427.html|title=Europeans v Muslims, Lahore Tournament 1924/25|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 November 2022|url-access=subscription}} In the 1938, he fought in the Waziristan campaign alongside native Indian troops against hostile tribesmen.Fighting on Indian Frontier. The Argus. 22 February 1938. p. 11 Following his retirement from the British Indian Army on 22 February 1948London Gazette 5th March 1948, page 1628 he returned to Australia where he died at his residence at Ivanhoe in Melbourne in June 1952.Deaths. The Argus. 12 June 1952. p. 11