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Former England spinner Derek 'Deadly' Underwood - RIP
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Obituary Thread
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Alistair20000
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Sad news as he was only 78.
I saw him as more of a medium pacer than spinner who was deadly on damp sticky English tracks. I will forever recall him getting the final Strine wickets to square the Ashes series in 1968.
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Yes the famous photograph of that last wicket with all the fielders clustered around the batsman .
Derek Underwood was my favourite cricketer only a couple of years older than me but a sporting hero nonetheless .
Derek Underwood was my favourite cricketer only a couple of years older than me but a sporting hero nonetheless .
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DB9
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Depends how close you are to 78.
Oldsmobile-88
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Probably the best English Spinner ever to play Test Cricket.
His first class bowling average in a career that spanned 24 years was just over 20.
iscalad
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Raman Subba Row. An excellent cricketer. RIP.
Alistair20000
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Not a good week for former cricketers
Raman Subba Row had retired young and before I got into cricket but I note he had both an excellent first class and Test batting average
RIP
STURTZ
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When an Old Cricketer leaves the Crease - Roy Harper.
Somebody please post a link!
Somebody please post a link!
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Spoonz Red E
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When the day is done and the ball has spun in the umpires pocket away
And all remains in the groundsman's pains for the rest of time and a day
There'll be one mad dog and his master pushing for four with the spin
On a dusty pitch with two pounds six of willow wood in the sun
When an old cricketer leaves the crease you never know whether he's gone
If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly Mid-on
And it could be Geoff and it could be John
With a new ball sting in his tail and it could be me and it could be thee
And it could be the sting in the ale ....