Famous Cricketers No 85 - Derek Underwood

Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Other matches 77.4 43 96 24 8/10 4.00 3 1 Career 5389.3 2308 11198 621 9/28 18.03 44 13 1968 Selected for the squad of fourteen for the First Test against Australia, Underwood was omitted from the eleven which played but appeared in the remaining four Tests and ended as England’s top wicket-taker. His haul of 20 wickets included 7-50 in the memorable final Test when he skittled out Australia after play, apparently against all the odds, was resumed after a thunderstorm. Despite missing nearly a third of the county programme through Test calls he nevertheless took 91 wickets for Kent including analyses of 7-17 against Hampshire and 7-28 against Glamorgan in successive matches. His 45* in England’s first innings at Headingley is the highest score by a number eleven batsman against Australia. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 152. MCC v Yorkshire, Lord’s, April 27, (29), (30) (Match drawn) did not bat - 309-6d 153. Kent v Lancashire, Canterbury, May 4, 5, 6 (Kent won by six wickets) c F.M.Engineer b K.Higgs 5 83 1 0 1 0 69 did not bat - 162-4 22 14 21 0 175 154. Kent v Gloucestershire, Bristol, May (8), 9, (10) (Match drawn) 1 0 1 0 42-0 155. Kent v Derbyshire, Gravesend, May 11, 12, (13) (Match drawn) c M.H.Page b E.Smith 6 179-9d 41.3 20 54 6 D.H.K.Smith c A.P.E.Knott 163 M.H.Page b D.C.Morgan c B.W.Luckhurst T.J.P.Eyre lbw R.W.Taylor c J.N.Graham A.B.Jackson b 22 14 19 1 T.J.P.Eyre c M.C.Cowdrey 94-6 156. Kent v Somerset, Gravesend, May 15, 16, 17 (Kent won by nine wickets) did not bat - 383-6d 27.5 13 46 7 R.T.Virgin c J.N.Shepherd 134-9d T.I.Barwell b G.S.Chappell st A.P.E.Knott W.E.Alley b P.J.Robinson lbw G.I.Burgess st A.P.E.Knott B.A.Langford c S.E.Leary did not bat - 54-1 50 22 100 4 R.T.Virgin b 299 1 W.E.Alley c M.H.Denness B.A.Langford b R.A.Brooks c and b 157. MCC v Australians, Lord’s, May (18), 20, 21 (Match drawn) b N.J.N.Hawke 0 142 29 11 68 4 R.M.Cowper c R.W.Taylor 246-9d A.P.Sheahan b K.D.Walters c J.H.Edrich R.J.Inverarity b did not bat - 56-1 158. Kent v Leicestershire, Leicester, May 22, 23, 24 (Kent won by 165 runs) b C.T.Spencer 0 157 - - - - 53 1 did not bat - 213-7d 8 4 13 2 A.J.Matthews b 152 R.J.Barratt c Asif Iqbal 159. Kent v Hampshire, Southampton, June 1, 2, 3 (Match drawn) run out 2 148 31 9 73 1 D.R.Turner c A.P.E.Knott 230 c A.T.Castell b P.J.Sainsbury 0 342-8 160. Kent v Surrey, Blackheath, June 8, 9, 10 (Surrey won by 83 runs) c M.J.Edwards b G.R.J.Roope 16 255 1 1 0 2 R.Harman b 142 A.J.Stockley c S.E.Leary 24