Scorer Keyath calls for help
View(s):Cricket as a game may have has advanced by leaps and bounds. Present-day cricketers as well as match referees and umpires lead comfortable lives with the riches earned through cricket but there is a breed, in cricket that has not benefitted, by any mean. They are the scorers.
Faleel Keyath
Being engaged in a thankless duty, merely for the love of the game, not its returns, the scorers simply become a forgotten segment of cricket. One individual who falls into that category is Faleel Keyath, a renowned scorer for nearly 35 years.
In 2005 he underwent surgery to his failing eye sight and since then he has been unable to work and has been dependent solely on the meager salary that his wife earns doing a minor housekeeping job at a cleaning company.
Recently Keyath suffered a fall at the General Hospital where he had gone to get some treatment and broken his right leg. He was admitted to the hospital where he underwent surgery to his right thigh that was broken by the fall. He is also partially paralysed and unable to use his right hand. Following the operation Keyath is recuperating and is now confined to a bed unable to move about. He is also a diabetic patient.Keyath, a neat statistician, was the official scorer for Moors SC for 13 years since 1958 and for Bloomfield for 20 years before failing eyesight forced him to gradually quit the profession he dearly loved in 2001.
Keyath, now 80, lives in a small wooden house at Kolonnawa for a monthly rent of Rs. 3000 with his wife Jezima. As they have no children Keyath has only his wife, who is the bread winner and the one who looks after him with a monthly income of Rs. 6000. Keyath appeals to all cricket lovers to help him financially in this hour of need at least to cover his monthly medical expenses and house rent. Keyath resides at 111/8, Nagahamulla, Kolonnawa (Dieselwatte) and can be contacted on 0721020736.