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RIP Derek Underwood

killerandflash
killerandflash Posts: 70,423
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Just come up on the BBC cricket feed  :'(
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  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,095
    That’s sad. A boyhood hero of mine in a great Kent team. RIP.
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,534
    RIP Deadly Derek. 
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,040
    Rip 

    One of my childhood heroes
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,441
    One of Kent's greats. His partnership with Knotty for both Kent and England was the stuff of legends.

    RIP Deadly
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,778
    https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/derek-underwood-1945-2024/
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Oh dear. How sad.
    Lots of people are called legends these days, but Underwood was a true great.
    RIP.
  • dev
    dev Posts: 39
    Deadly was my favourite. Superb to watch.
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    A very sad day. Deadly was my childhood hero for sure. When he came on to bowl, you just knew he’d take a wicket straight away. 
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,812
    A Kent legend. 

    Sleep tight, Derek x
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,039
    edited April 2024
    c Knott b Underwood.  RIP a true cricket legend.  Unplayable on wet ungarded wickets.

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  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,929
    Oh that's terrible news. RIP deadly. A truly great bowler .
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,458
    Very sad news.  RIP Deadly. 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,446
    So sad. RIP the days of proper test cricket, school summer holidays waiting for something to happen in a test match...
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,757
    RIP Derek a true legend.


    (From Lords.org).
    He was the leading spin bowler in England for two decades, forming a deadly combination with wicket-keeper Alan Knott both at Test and county level. A precocious talent, he took 100 wickets for Kent in 1963 at the age of 17, the youngest to do so in first-class cricket. He captured his 1,000th first-class wicket aged just 25, and took 1,000 wickets in a season 10 times, notably 157 in 1966. He was the leading bowler in England on four occasions: 1966, 1967, 1978 and 1979. In nine Test Matches at Lord’s, he took 38 wickets at 16.92, claiming four five-wicket hauls and becoming the only bowler in history to take 10 wickets in a Test Match at Lord’s twice. His first Test at the Home of Cricket was against Australia in 1968, when he bowled a wonderful spell of 18-15-8-2 as England pressed for an unlikely victory. The following year he succeeded in bowling England to victory against New Zealand with figures of 31-18-32-7, part of an 11-wicket match haul. He did better still against Pakistan in 1974; hauls of 5 for 20 and 8 for 51 bringing him match figures of 13 for 71, the third best in Lord’s history.


    (From Wisden.com)


    Minutes to spare and Derek mops up with 4/6 in 27 deliveries in the Oval test 1968 v Australia.
  • pettgra
    pettgra Posts: 1,587
    Brilliant bowler, he was also a very brave tailender. I remember the West Indian quickies battering him with their bowling, no way was he going to give his wicket away.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,749
    Very sad.
    May he RIP ♥️
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,567
    edited April 2024
    I always dreamed of owning a pub in Kent overlooking a village cricket pitch.
    I would have called it “Caught Knott Bowled Underwood.”
    RIP…..Deadly…..RIP.
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,319
    Truly sad moment. Deadly was a huge part of the Kent scene when I started going - I remember my dad telling me about him the first time I saw him (Sunday league JPS) and you always expected wickets.
    RIP Derek.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,716
    One of my sporting heroes.

    RIP Derek you were a true cricketing great.
  • Phil
    Phil Posts: 616
    Very sad news. A true great of the game who I was fortunate to see play many times. RIP.

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  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,865
    edited April 2024
    One of my heroes from when I started watching cricket, his stats are still impressive, given DRS and the number of test matches now he'd probably have had hundreds more wickets.

    He was also a reasonable tail end batsman, and very brave, you had to be going in as night watchman v Holding and Roberts et al.

    Posted this before, but it's well  worth another look.

    https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1226514/deadly-venom--the-terror-of-derek-underwood

    RIP deadly.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    Fantastic talent. RIP Derek.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 21,083
    On a flat track, unscorable - on a turner, unplayable. Surprisingly quick as well for a spinner.

    One of the greatest ever and a big hero of mine.

    RIP Deadly
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 12,014
    bolloxbolder said:
    c Knott b Underwood.  RIP a true cricket legend.  Unplayable on wet ungarded wickets.
    They may have been in their pomp in the pre-Windows computer age but "c Knott b Underwood" is what <CTRL+C><CTRL+V> was made for.

    RIP Deadly.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,657
    RIP Derek. Yet another boyhood hero.

  • ecclesaddick
    ecclesaddick Posts: 409
    RIP The master deadly Derek
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,090
    RIP Derek. 
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,928
    One of England's greatest players. RIP
  • Oakster2
    Oakster2 Posts: 318
    edited April 2024
    He played in the very first cricket match I went to - day two of the 5th Test, England v The West Indies at The Oval in August 76.

    3/165 off 60 overs as we were battered by Richards & Lloyd - in my minds eye I can still see him wheeling in against those Windies legends on a hot summer afternoon nearly 50 years ado. RIP
  • Dartaddick
    Dartaddick Posts: 117
    I saw him play in a Kent side against Petts Wood many years ago.
    Wonderful bowler.
    RIP Derek.

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