Famous Cricketers No 85 - Derek Underwood

1966/67 - MCC Under 25 in Pakistan On this, his first overseas tour, Underwood found the pitches on the Indian sub-continent unrewarding and he took just thirteen wickets in six matches of a hectic tour schedule. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 117. MCC Under 25 v Southern Zone, Hyderabad, January 19, 20, 21 (MCC Under 25 won by eight wickets) c Abdul Aziz b Munawar Hussain 3 168 17 3 31 0 210-7d did not bat - 141-2 16 8 21 2 Sadiq Mohammad b 98 Munawar Hussain c K.W.R.Fletcher 118 MCC Under 25 v Pakistan Under 25, Lawrence Gardens, Lahore, January 27, 28, 29, 30 (Match drawn) b Mushtaq Mohammad 0 445 35 11 86 0 429-6d 1 5 1 12 0 259-7 119. MCC Under 25 v Northern Zone, Peshawar, February 1, 2, 3 (MCC Under 25 won by an innings and 139 runs) did not bat - 514-4d 5 1 12 0 126 18.1 6 38 1 Safiullah Khan b 249 1 120. MCC Under 25 v President’s XI, Rawalpindi, February 5, 6, 7 (MCC Under 25 won by eight wickets) c Saeed Ahmed b Intikhab Alam 7 280 24.5 17 21 4 Abdul Latif st A.P.E.Knott 157 Masood-ul-Hasan b Asif Wali lbw Zaibarni b did not bat - 55-2 33 18 44 1 Khali Farauf b 177 121. MCC Under 25 v Pakistan Under 25, Dacca, February 10, 11, 12, 13 (Match drawn) not out 0 475 14 9 14 0 263 23 5 64 1 Mushtaq Mohammad c M.Bissex 323-8 122. MCC Under 25 v Pakistan Under 25, Karachi, February 17, 18, 19, 20 (Match drawn) c Ijaz Hussain b Mushtaq Mohammad 12 183 19 9 21 2 Ijaz Hussain lbw 220 1 Salahuddin c and b did not bat - 148-1 35 14 42 2 Mushtaq Mohammad c J.A.Ormrod 217-8d Majid Jahangir Khan c D.J.Brown SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Other matches 6 5 1 22 12 5.50 - - 3 Career 122 136 37 703 33 7.10 - - 48 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Other matches 245 102 406 13 4/21 31.23 - - Career 4332.4 1809 9416 461 9/28 20.42 27 8 1967 For the second season in succession Underwood headed the national bowling averages, with 136 wickets at 12.39. His efforts contributed much to Kent winning the Gillette Cup and finishing second in the County Championship, their best position for 39 years. Overlooked for the three Tests against India and the first against Pakistan, he took his first five-wicket Test haul at Trent Bridge. His best returns of the season were 6-28 against Glamorgan, 7-33 against Leicestershire, 14-82 in the match at Hastings against Sussex and 7-35 and 5-15 against Hampshire to give him 12-50 in the match. His innings and match analyses of 7-78 and 10-152 for Kent against the Pakistanis remain the best for the county against the tourists. Against Surrey at the Oval he made 47, his highest score to date, with strokes, according to Wisden, “ that put the leading batsmen to shame”. 19