Famous Cricketers No 85 - Derek Underwood

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 21 17 6 145 25 13.18 - - 7 Other Kent match 1 - - - - - - - - Season 22 17 6 145 25 13.18 - - 7 Career 447 482 125 3266 80 9.14 - 1 191 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Championship 815.1 359 1594 110 9/32 14.49 8 2 Career (6-ball) 14895.2 6070 } 33917 1734 9/28 19.55 111 32 (8-ball) 883.1 228 1979 Although Kent slipped to fifth position in the Championship, Underwood was again the leading bowler. He played in every Championship game and took well over twice as many wickets as any of his team mates at an average of 14.62 – the next best was nearly 24! A measure of his contribution is the fact that he took more than ten wickets in four of the six matches that the county won and at least five wickets in an innings in the other two. As a batsman he added 129 for the ninth wicket with Dilley against Northamptonshire at Northampton, the sixth highest stand for this wicket for Kent (at the time, the fifth highest). Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 448. Kent v MCC, Lord’s, April 21, 22, 23 (Match drawn) c D.I.Gower b C.M.Old 0 195 20 5 54 2 W.Larkins c R.A.Woolmer 278-9 D.L.Bairstow c R.A.Woolmer 449. Kent v Essex, Chelmsford, May 2, 3, 4 (Match drawn) not out 8 250-8c 20 7 45 0 305-7d 8 4 13 2 G.A.Gooch lbw 43-9 K.R.Pont c C.S.Cowdrey 450. Kent v Middlesex, Lord’s, May 16, 17, 18 (Match drawn) b A.A.Jones 1 242 20 5 61 1 M.W.Gatting c C.J.Tavaré 287 1 not out 4 248-9d 7 3 19 0 54-0 451. Kent v Hampshire, Canterbury, May 26, 28, 29 (Match drawn) lbw b K.Stevenson 7 126 30 7 73 2 C.G.Greenidge c and b 309-3c 1 T.E.Jesty c sub did not bat - 22-1 452. Kent v Leicestershire, Leicester, June 2, 4, 5 (Kent won by eight wickets) c J.F.Steele b P.B.Clift 7 245 21 11 32 0 252-6d did not bat - 206-2 29.2 14 38 5 J.C.Balderstone c and b 195 2 D.I.Gower c A.P.E.Knott P.B.Clift c C.J.Tavaré N.G.B.Cook c G.W.Johnson K.Higgs b 453. Kent v Sussex, Canterbury, June 9, (11), 12 (Match drawn) did not bat - 302-7d 27 11 45 2 J.R.T.Barclay c A.G.E.Ealham 202-4d P.J.Graves lbw did not bat - 67-5 454. Kent v Somerset, Dartford, June 13, 14, 15 (Match drawn) did not bat - 31-0d 30 12 53 1 P.M.Roebuck c A.G.E.Ealham 128-4d - - - - 87-2 1 455. Kent v Gloucestershire, Gloucester, June 16, 18, 19 (Kent won by an innings and 158 runs) b M.D.Partridge 12 389 31.4 19 39 4 A.W.Stovold c G.W.Johnson 154 D.R.Shepherd b M.D.Partridge c G.R.Dilley A.J.Brassington c C.J.Tavaré 59