Thanks for posting. I'm too young to have seen Deadly bowl his best, but I was suprised to see how round-arm his delivery was - it only makes his accuracy so much more amazing.
Thanks so much for uploading this clip. People mention Derek's long run up - but he would be getting through a maiden over between 77-85 seconds if the last 3 deliveries of this test were anything to go by!
Derek was not a 'slow' spin bowler. That in itself would cause problems - in amongst the spin, he'd put in a true medium-pace seam delivery, or even 'plain ball'. He was totally unpredictable, and that was his magic.
From the famous iconic photo of the last wicket falling I could never understand how inverarity had been given out lbw based on where he ended up. Not until seeing the video many years later did it make sense
This was the first ever day of Test cricket that I ever went to. The unexpected rain flooded the ground and the small crowd was invited to volunteer with the drying out of the soaked outfield. It was a thrill to help out and then to see my boyhood heroes combine to take the last 5 wickets in the nick of time was amazing.I may well be one of the boys seen rushing onto the ground at the end. I met David Brown last year and we talked about his 2 catches off Derek Underwood. An unforgettable day .
Great to see this. So much of cricket has changed in subtle and not so subtle ways in the 56 years since it was filmed. 1) Player celebrations far more restrained. 2) Umpires standing so close to the stumps. 3) The LBW Law 4) The procedure for judging whether to come off as a result of poor weather. 5) Covered pitches But in all this there’s Deadly Underwood. RIP.
I remember watching that live. It was a rain-affected series and England were denied by weather a couple of times, and it looked like it was going to happen again. Time was tight and bowlers were rushing in order to squeeze an extra over or two.
Time was tight, but the bowlers were bowling from their usual run ups and weren't rushing. Teams could bowl 20-24 overs per hour if both spinners were bowling at either end and teams were just playing defensively in those days.
The days when one prayed for a shower. Derek was a one-off, who with today's game would have no place. Absolute brilliance in conditions that these days wouldn't be permitted.
Wonderful, thank you. Can anyone explain what on earth the last Australian to be out - the opening batsman (!) - thought he was doing when he moved his leg in that way with his bat in the air??
It's hard to see what the ball did on the grainy film. I'm guessing he thought the ball pitched outside the line of the off stump and the batsman expected it to spin away, and therefore padded up not playing a shot to remove the possibility of nicking the ball for a catch thinking the ball would miss the wickets. The ball instead came on with the bowler's arm, striking the pads in front. If he had played a shot, then he wouldn't have been out LBW. Sorry if you knew all that and was just asking a rhetorical question. Mostly would be sorry for myself having typed all that out for nothing! lol
The law changed after that year due to a lot of players just padding up our kicking it away. At that time playing a shot or not playing a shot didn't make a difference in the laws of the game.
Golden days of classic players and great sportsmanship.There were a few fielders there who would not have done diving saves on the boundary! English culture as it was then in contrast to sad modern-day multicultiralism stuff and nonsense
Until 1972, one could not be out lbw if the ball struck pad outside the line of off stump. Kicking the ball away was an oft-used- if hardly fair- practice used by bats(wo)men to avoid playing the ball if it was turning in sharply. There was a certain amount of sympathy for bowlers in such circumstances, and home umpires (long long before neutral umpires, let alone DRS) would sometimes redress the balance in favour of the bowler [as an aside, England played six tests in Australia in 1970/71, and NOT ONE SINGLE AUSSIE was given out lbw throughout the entire series. Australia, not India or Pakistan, were the last country to oppose neutral umpires btw]. Anyway- Inverarity was doing what most bats did at the time: taking a giant stride in kicking the ball away, on the grounds that the umpire could never be sure where exactly the impact had been if your leg ended up three feet outside off-stump, could he? Some umpires were indeed fooled, but others not, and it is likely- blurry b&w footage notwithstanding- that Inverarity had been hit in line with off stump; a good umpire would be watching the line of the ball, not the pad. Someone has probably analysed the footage pretty minutely at some point and arrived at that conclusion… The law changed in 1972 and an awful lot of old pros found themselves with a habit that proved hard to break. There were A LOT of lbws in the next few years!
Hi, thank you very much for the reply - at first sight it looks he was hit well outside the off-stump, but I now understand the umpire, watching the ball as you say, decided he was hit in line, a decision it seems supported by modern cleaning up and analysis of the film.
I'm surprised it took so long for the LBW law to change. It was in 1957 that Sir Colin Cowdrey played his famous "He kicked me to death" innings v Ramadhin. As Sir Garry Sobers said in his autobiography - "One of those deliveries had to be going on to hit the stumps"!
@@JP1234815 Bats’ game, now as ever. I can’t remember who it was who remarked that “the last bowler to be knighted was Sir Francis Drake”, but at the time he wasn’t wrong.
@@relayer27 Milburn was one of my childhood heroes too. Totally brutal player but lost an eye in a car crash. Certainly Milburn and Cowdrey were larger than I remember.
Umpires very keen to give Deadly a helping hand. Finger couldn't go up quick enough. Walters given out when he looked like he missed it by 6 foot. Last lbw dodgy. Commentator on Chapells dismissmal. "It certainly looked out from here." Ha ha. He is only 150m away with the wicketkeeper and batsmen arse blocking the view.
The pure joy on their faces spoke volumes....Knott and Underwood were exceptional talents
Thanks for posting. I'm too young to have seen Deadly bowl his best, but I was suprised to see how round-arm his delivery was - it only makes his accuracy so much more amazing.
RIP Derek Underwood. One of Englands very best. Him and Knott, what a team!
Legend Deadly Derek.
REMEMBER THIS SO VERY WELL, COS I WAS THERE. DEADLY ONE OF MY FIRST HEREOS
Thanks so much for uploading this clip. People mention Derek's long run up - but he would be getting through a maiden over between 77-85 seconds if the last 3 deliveries of this test were anything to go by!
Derek was not a 'slow' spin bowler. That in itself would cause problems - in amongst the spin, he'd put in a true medium-pace seam delivery, or even 'plain ball'. He was totally unpredictable, and that was his magic.
@@paulcaswell2813 yes!
Proper cricket this.
Yes!
Astonishing!
Thank-you!
From the famous iconic photo of the last wicket falling I could never understand how inverarity had been given out lbw based on where he ended up. Not until seeing the video many years later did it make sense
This was the first ever day of Test cricket that I ever went to. The unexpected rain flooded the ground and the small crowd was invited to volunteer with the drying out of the soaked outfield.
It was a thrill to help out and then to see my boyhood heroes combine to take the last 5 wickets in the nick of time was amazing.I may well be one of the boys seen rushing onto the ground at the end.
I met David Brown last year and we talked about his 2 catches off Derek Underwood.
An unforgettable day .
As any pro batsman would do in the circumstances, Inverarity was doing his best to run in the direction of point.
@@geoffreyplow3811 🤣🤣
If you offer no stroke to a delivery likely to hit the stumps, you could be out.
@@parthabasu1601 gee thanks for the cricket lesson.
Great to see this. So much of cricket has changed in subtle and not so subtle ways in the 56 years since it was filmed.
1) Player celebrations far more restrained.
2) Umpires standing so close to the stumps.
3) The LBW Law
4) The procedure for judging whether to come off as a result of poor weather.
5) Covered pitches
But in all this there’s Deadly Underwood. RIP.
6) Only one camera position!
I heard an interview with a TV director at the time and he said they wanted to give the viewer a sense of being in one place on the ground.
RIP? Oh my god. When? One of the Greats.
I remember watching that live. It was a rain-affected series and England were denied by weather a couple of times, and it looked like it was going to happen again. Time was tight and bowlers were rushing in order to squeeze an extra over or two.
Time was tight, but the bowlers were bowling from their usual run ups and weren't rushing. Teams could bowl 20-24 overs per hour if both spinners were bowling at either end and teams were just playing defensively in those days.
RIP Derek
You could tell when the players were particularly excited because they hitched their trousers up with an extra swagger!
If only we had cricketers of this calibre today.
We did his name was Shane Warne……….
A very great bowler in his day.
Passive cricket of the past...
The days when one prayed for a shower. Derek was a one-off, who with today's game would have no place. Absolute brilliance in conditions that these days wouldn't be permitted.
Would love to have seen cowdray and Milburn chasing the ball
Cowdrey was a great slip fielder so did not need to run, and a class batter and captain.
I notice on the last wicket, the umpire did not spend too much time thinking about the decision, absolutely plum says the home umpire!
This is Aussie an nightmare -- amazed the players recovered after this to a degree - they suffered similarly in South Africa in 1970.
Wonderful, thank you. Can anyone explain what on earth the last Australian to be out - the opening batsman (!) - thought he was doing when he moved his leg in that way with his bat in the air??
It's hard to see what the ball did on the grainy film.
I'm guessing he thought the ball pitched outside the line of the off stump and the batsman expected it to spin away, and therefore padded up not playing a shot to remove the possibility of nicking the ball for a catch thinking the ball would miss the wickets.
The ball instead came on with the bowler's arm, striking the pads in front.
If he had played a shot, then he wouldn't have been out LBW.
Sorry if you knew all that and was just asking a rhetorical question. Mostly would be sorry for myself having typed all that out for nothing! lol
The law changed after that year due to a lot of players just padding up our kicking it away. At that time playing a shot or not playing a shot didn't make a difference in the laws of the game.
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Thanks Gary. 👍👍
TBH I did wonder if it was before or after the law change.
@@pencilpauli9442Agreed. Had some pace on it too. Deadly's arm ball did for many an unsuspecting batsman over the next two decades.
@@pencilpauli9442 Hi, thank you very much for the reply - I wasn't being rhetorical at all, I was seriously confused about the decision!
Golden days of classic players and great sportsmanship.There were a few fielders there who would not have done diving saves on the boundary! English culture as it was then in contrast to sad modern-day multicultiralism stuff and nonsense
Until 1972, one could not be out lbw if the ball struck pad outside the line of off stump. Kicking the ball away was an oft-used- if hardly fair- practice used by bats(wo)men to avoid playing the ball if it was turning in sharply. There was a certain amount of sympathy for bowlers in such circumstances, and home umpires (long long before neutral umpires, let alone DRS) would sometimes redress the balance in favour of the bowler [as an aside, England played six tests in Australia in 1970/71, and NOT ONE SINGLE AUSSIE was given out lbw throughout the entire series. Australia, not India or Pakistan, were the last country to oppose neutral umpires btw]. Anyway- Inverarity was doing what most bats did at the time: taking a giant stride in kicking the ball away, on the grounds that the umpire could never be sure where exactly the impact had been if your leg ended up three feet outside off-stump, could he? Some umpires were indeed fooled, but others not, and it is likely- blurry b&w footage notwithstanding- that Inverarity had been hit in line with off stump; a good umpire would be watching the line of the ball, not the pad. Someone has probably analysed the footage pretty minutely at some point and arrived at that conclusion…
The law changed in 1972 and an awful lot of old pros found themselves with a habit that proved hard to break. There were A LOT of lbws in the next few years!
Hi, thank you very much for the reply - at first sight it looks he was hit well outside the off-stump, but I now understand the umpire, watching the ball as you say, decided he was hit in line, a decision it seems supported by modern cleaning up and analysis of the film.
I'm surprised it took so long for the LBW law to change. It was in 1957 that Sir Colin Cowdrey played his famous "He kicked me to death" innings v Ramadhin. As Sir Garry Sobers said in his autobiography - "One of those deliveries had to be going on to hit the stumps"!
@@JP1234815 Bats’ game, now as ever. I can’t remember who it was who remarked that “the last bowler to be knighted was Sir Francis Drake”, but at the time he wasn’t wrong.
@@walrtbstudios5430 Fred certainly should have been knighted. But as a non-Oxbridge cricketer, he stood no chance.
Remember it well brilliant on a drying wicket
Who is the rather rotund English player?
I think you mean Colin Milburn. From the look of the film he had not long lost his eye in an accident.
Television images are better today..yes,I am N.S.Sherlock.
Pity I can’t see the ball
The great and unforgettable Ritchie Benourd commentating.
I don't think Colin Milburn could have played in this era.
Milburn was a very aggressive batsmen and would probably have thrived in the short forms of the game as well as in test cricket
@@relayer27 Milburn was one of my childhood heroes too. Totally brutal player but lost an eye in a car crash. Certainly Milburn and Cowdrey were larger than I remember.
@@winsfordtown he was certainly a pocket battleship
Was it his stomach at short leg at 1.30?
@@garygrief7609 Yes that's Colin.
Umpires very keen to give Deadly a helping hand. Finger couldn't go up quick enough. Walters given out when he looked like he missed it by 6 foot. Last lbw dodgy. Commentator on Chapells dismissmal. "It certainly looked out from here." Ha ha. He is only 150m away with the wicketkeeper and batsmen arse blocking the view.
Only good on doctored pitches.
Not so. Only good on rain-affected pitches - certainly.
Someone throws water on the wickets for deadly Derek underwood