The Underarm Ball
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@Rapido said in Black Caps v India:
@canefan said in Black Caps v India:
Didn't know where else to put this
Every town in NZ should erect a cricket bat statue, and once a year all old cricketers should dress up in their beige, shoulder bats, and march past .
Such a traumatic event in our history, just isnt discussed enough. We need to bring this event back out into the light.
I relive it every once in a while, having bought a B&H WSC replica shirt from these guys
http://www.retrocricket.com/newzealand.html
Might need to buy a bigger size soon as it seems to have shrunk in the wash......
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@canefan oh my god thanks for sharing that website. Awesome.
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To the old buggers on here, was that incident a really big deal at the time? Or has it gained notoriety as time has gone on? (was before I was born...)
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@No-Quarter it was MASSIVE mate. Muldoon had a pip, everyone had a go while delighting in all good Aussies being disappointed.
In the 90s I watched a replay with Lance Cairns in a house somewhere.
Lance pointed out all the 2s that Edgar didn't run and concluded, " that's where we lost that game". That was his summation of the match
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@No-Quarter said in The Underarm Ball:
To the old buggers on here, was that incident a really big deal at the time? Or has it gained notoriety as time has gone on? (was before I was born...)
No, It was a massive deal! I was only 6 and I can vividly remember it and the aftermath.
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@MN5 said in The Underarm Ball:
Bruce Edgar is the real villain. What sort of batsman only scores 102 after carrying his bat? Nowadays that'd be a double.
Oh and just quietly as a nation we need to stop fucken griping about this. We're worse than Poms sometimes.
It's more a sense of nostalgia these days I reckon. The beige uniforms, the battles against the green and gold boogeymen. We won so rarely against them back then (until 1985/86), it was just reaffirmation of what we knew all along, the Aussies were cheating bastards!!
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@No-Quarter said in The Underarm Ball:
To the old buggers on here, was that incident a really big deal at the time? Or has it gained notoriety as time has gone on? (was before I was born...)
No it's diminished in importance over time.
It was HUUUGE in the day and for years after.
Now it's just another club to beat Aussies with fir being dirty cheating unethical fluffybunnies.
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Oh. Same match as the Snedden catch. Add that and DK Morrison's non LB against McDermott, and Dyer, and Langer not given first over of the summer against Cairns, and Gillespie caught leg side by Parore off Cairns at Perth, and L Cairns no ball for intimidatory bowling, and Lyon's bat flash that could have come from anywhere...
... this could go on...
Greg Matthews. Well just Greg Matthews ...
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Oh and Greg Chappell was like the personification of evil to my 8 year old self!! As for the umpires, their South African rugby counterparts would have been proud of the stitch up job they did on us that day, and the Snedden catch that wasn't even the half of it
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@booboo there's a great photo in Hadlees "rhythm and swing " showing Matthew's catching our man on the boundary with a foot squashing the rope.
No Photoshop in them days.
Matthews was pretty harmless though. He was equally strange to opposition and teammates alike
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@Siam said in The Underarm Ball:
@booboo there's a great photo in Hadlees "rhythm and swing " showing Matthew's catching our man on the boundary with a foot squashing the rope.
No Photoshop in them days.
Matthews was pretty harmless though. He was equally strange to opposition and teammates alike
That was at Eden Park. I remember that the cameras captured it all, but there was no review by the umps back then and they went on the word of the player. It was the big old 3 inch mooring rope type boundary and Matthews nearly twisted his ankle while taking, and claiming, the catch.
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@canefan said in The Underarm Ball:
Dier the Liar was another example of the Aussie win at all costs attitude
To put this in some context though, Dyer never played for Australia again. In 1978 Andy Haden still had 7 more years in the All Black jersey.
