Famous Cricketers No 85 - Derek Underwood

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 3 3 0 28 22 9.33 - - - Other matches 3 1 0 7 7 7.00 - - Tour 6 4 0 35 22 8.75 - - - Career 186 201 50 1228 47 8.13 - - 76 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 106 40 204 8 5/94 25.50 1 - Other matches 83 31 176 12 6/40 14.66 1 - Total 189 71 380 20 6/40 19.00 2 - Career 6536.1 2814 13399 764 9/28 17.53 52 16 1969 Underwood’s success in the course of his career to date was crowned by his being nominated one of Wisden ’s ‘Five Cricketers of the Year’ for 1969. He played in two Tests against the West Indies with limited success but against New Zealand he took no fewer than 24 wickets at an average of 9.16. This included 11-70 in the First Test and 12-101 in the Third, to this day the best match analysis for England against New Zealand in England. For the sixth time he took 100 wickets in a season. In Kent’s match against Lancashire at Old Trafford he batted for over four hours for his side’s highest score of 80 after being sent in as nightwatchman after the fall of an early Kent wicket on the first evening. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 187. MCC v Yorkshire, Lord’s, April 26, 28, 29 (MCC won by seven wickets) did not bat - 195-5d 20 7 62 1 J.G.Binks b 250-5d did not bat - 188-3 22 14 32 5 P.J.Sharpe b 132-8d D.E.V.Padgett b J.H.Hampshire c A.W.Greig R.A.Hutton c D.L.Amiss C.M.Old c R.M.Prideaux 188. Kent v Sussex, Canterbury, May 10, 12, 13 (Match drawn) c M.A.Buss b A.W.Greig 2 131 20 5 48 2 M.G.Griffith c R.A.Woolmer 220-7d E.J.Lewis c B.W.Luckhurst b A.Buss 5 216-9 12 2 24 1 A.W.Greig c and b 133-9d 1 189. Kent v West Indians, Canterbury, May (14), 15, (16) (Match drawn) did not bat - 97-2d 190. Kent v Middlesex, Lord’s, May 17, 19, 20 (Kent won by an innings and 66 runs) did not bat - 295-7d 10.2 4 22 6 M.J.Smith c M.H.Denness 50 C.T.Radley lbw F.J.Titmus c M.H.Denness R.W.Hooker lbw H.C.Latchman b A.N.Connolly c B.W.Luckhurst 32 14 55 2 M.J.Smith c M.H.Denness 179 P.H.Parfitt c R.A.Woolmer 191. Kent v Essex, Brentwood, May 21, 22 (Kent won by seven wickets) c R.N.S.Hobbs b R.E.East 9 81 18 4 45 6 K.W.R.Fletcher c R.A.Woolmer 131 B.L.Irvine c M.H.Denness K.D.Boyce c S.E.Leary B.Taylor b S.Turner c R.A.Woolmer R.N.S.Hobbs b did not bat - 86-3 8 3 9 2 B.Ward c B.W.Luckhurst 34 B.E.A.Edmeades c A.J.M.Hooper 28