Famous Cricketers No 85 - Derek Underwood

288. Kent v Glamorgan, Canterbury, August 5, 7, 8 (Kent won by seven wickets) did not bat - 302-7d 20.4 3 58 2 G.P.Ellis c Asif Iqbal 318-4d M.A.Nash b did not bat - 181-3 23 8 56 3 R.C.Fredericks c G.W.Johnson 164 G.P.Ellis c R.A.Woolmer P.M.Walker c A.P.E.Knott 289. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Kennington Oval, August 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 (Australia won by five wickets) not out 3 284 38 16 90 4 R.Edwards b 399 A.P.Sheahan c J.H.Hampshire R.W.Marsh b R.J.Inverarity c A.W.Greig not out 0 356 35 11 94 2 I.M.Chappell c sub 242-5 G.S.Chappell lbw 290. Kent v Australians, Canterbury, August 19, 21, 22 (Australians won by nine wickets) c G.S.Chappell b J.W.Gleeson 4 139 15 3 64 0 330-4d c and b J.R.Hammond 2 278 5 2 13 0 90-1 291. Kent v Yorkshire, Bradford, August 30, 31 (Kent won by an innings and 81 runs) c D.L.Bairstow b C.M.Old 9 362 17.5 9 26 3 A.J.Dalton c B.D.Julien 98 C.Johnson c A.P.E.Knott D.L.Bairstow b 27 6 70 8 B.Leadbeater c B.W.Luckhurst 183 1 P.J.Squires c B.D.Julien A.J.Dalton c B.W.Luckhurst J.H.Hampshire c B.W.Luckhurst C.Johnson c R.A.Woolmer R.A.Hutton c and b D.L.Bairstow lbw H.P.Cooper b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 2 3 2 8 5 8.00 - - - Championship 14 13 5 100 23* 12.50 - - 6 Other Kent match 1 2 0 6 4 3.00 - - - Other match 1 1 0 6 6 6.00 - - - Season 18 19 7 120 23* 10.00 - - 6 Career 291 317 80 2076 80 8.75 - 1 124 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 125 49 266 16 6/45 16.62 1 1 Championship 472.4 161 1053 52 8/70 20.25 2 1 Other Kent match 20 5 77 0 - - - - Other match 35 12 89 3 3/89 29.66 - - Season 652.4 227 1485 71 8/70 20.91 3 2 Career (6-ball) 9937.3 4132 } 21872 1181 9/28 18.51 80 25 (8-ball) 422 110 1972/73 - MCC in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan Once again on this tour of the Indian sub-continent Underwood proved consistently accurate and economical but less penetrative than on English pitches. A feature of his bowling was his dismissal of Engineer (five times) and Gavaskar (four times) in the eight innings in which they were opposed to him. 40