Derek Underwood Personal information Full name Derek Leslie Underwood Born 8 June 1945 (1945-06-08) (age 65) Bromley, Kent, England Nickname Deadly Batting style Right-handed Bowling style Slow left arm orthodox Left arm medium Role Bowler International information National side England Test debut (cap 433) 30 June 1966 v West Indies Last Test 17 February 1982 v Sri Lanka ODI debut (cap 20) 18 July 1973 v New Zealand Last ODI 14 February 1982 v Sri Lanka Domestic team information Years Team 1963–1987 Kent Career statistics Competition Tests ODI FC LA Matches 86 26 676 411 Runs scored 937 53 5165 815 Batting average 11.56 5.88 10.12 7.02 100s/50s 0/0 0/0 1/2 0/0 Top score 45* 17 111 28 Balls bowled 21862 1278 139783 19825 Wickets 297 32 2465 572 Bowling average 25.83 22.93 20.28 19.40 5 wickets in innings 17 0 153 8 10 wickets in match 6 n/a 47 n/a Best bowling 8/51 4/44 9/28 8/31 Catches/stumpings 44/– 6/– 261/– 108/– Source: Cricinfo, 25 March 2008

Derek Leslie Underwood MBE, (born Bromley, Kent, June 8, 1945) known as Deadly, is a former English international cricketer and a former President of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Underwood was one of the foremost spin bowlers in the world for over a decade starting from the late 1960s. Not a classical spinner, Underwood bowled at around medium pace and was often unplayable on seaming English wickets, particularly "sticky wickets", earning his nickname "Deadly" and accounting for the saying that England would "carry Underwood like an umbrella, in case of rain". His inswinging "arm ball" was particularly noted for dismissing batsmen leg before wicket. Underwood was a first class bowler from his teens and he took his 100th Test wicket and 1,000th First Class wicket in 1971 aged only 25. He used to say that bowling was a 'low mentality profession: plug away, line and length, until there's a mistake',1 and sooner or later every batsmen would make a mistake.

Underwood finished his career just 3 wickets short of 300 in Test cricket, at the excellent average of 25.83. He famously took the last 4 Australian wickets in 27 balls in the final half an hour at the end of the 5th Test in 1968, after a heavy thunderstorm on the fifth day had all but ended the match, to square an Ashes series that Australia were winning 1–0. He also toured Australia in 1970–71, dismissing Terry Jenner to win the Seventh Test at Sydney and regain The Ashes. On 16 July 2009, Derek was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame along with others including Neil Harvey, David Gower and Allan Border.2 Contents 1 Early life and county career 2 World Series Cricket 3 Recognition 4 References 5 External links Early life and county career

Born in Kent, Underwood was educated at Beckenham and Penge Grammar School for Boys. Underwood played county cricket for Kent, making his first-class debut against Yorkshire aged 17 in 1963. He became the youngest player to take 100 County Championship wickets in a debut season. He went on to take 100 wickets in a season a further nine times. His batting was less accomplished, averaging barely over ten runs per innings in 676 matches. He scored his first and only first-class century (111) at the age of 39, in his 591st first-class match. World Series Cricket Underwood was one of five England cricketers (the others being Alan Knott, Dennis Amiss, Bob Woolmer and Tony Greig), to feature in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in the late 1970s, and toured South Africa in 1981–82. Recognition

He was awarded the MBE in 1981. In 1997, he became Patron of the Primary Club, and in 2008 it was announced that he would serve as President of MCC for the following year. In a Wisden article in 2004 he was selected by a highly respected panel as a member of England's greatest post-war XI.3 Derek Underwood was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009.4 References ^ p280, Chris Cowdrey and Jonathan Smith, Good Enough, Pelham Books, 1986 ^ "Border, Harvey, Gower, Underwood inducted into Hall of Fame". http://www.thesportscampus.com/200907161402/test-cricket/hof-inductees.  ^ http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/143234.html ^ "Widdecombe, Holland and Underwood are appointed honorary fellows". Canterbury Christ Church University. 3 February 2009. http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/News/newsRelease.asp?newsPk=1301. Retrieved 2009-08-19.  External links Sunday Times article 31 May, 2009 v · d · eEngland squad – 1975 Cricket World Cup 1 Denness (c) • 2 Amiss • 3 Arnold • 4 Fletcher • 5 Greig • 6 Hayes • 7 Jameson • 8 Knott (wk) • 9 Lever • 10 Old • 11 Snow • 12 Underwood • 13 Wood v · d · e squad – World Series Cricket 1 Greig (c) • 2 Amiss • 3 Asif Iqbal • 4 Barlow • 5 Hadlee • 6 Imran Khan • 7 Javed Miandad • 8 Knott (wk) • 9 Le Roux • 10 Haroon Rashid • 11 Majid Khan • 12 Mushtaq Mohammed • 13 Procter • 14 Rice • 15 Richards • 16 Sarfraz Nawaz • 17 John Snow • 18 Taslim Arif (wk) • 19 Underwood • 20 Woolmer • 21 Zaheer Abbas Persondata Name Underwood, Derek Alternative names Short description Date of birth 8 June 1945 Place of birth Bromley, Kent Date of death Place of death