biography
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Underwood, Derek (Leslie)
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| lived:
| (1945– )
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| biography:
| Cricketer, born in Bromley, S Greater London, UK. An unorthodox slow left-arm bowler, very effective on wet pitches before the introduction of full covering, he took 297 wickets in 86 Tests for England, and this total would have been much larger had he not suffered two bans, first for defecting to World Series Cricket in 1977, and later for playing unauthorized matches in South Africa. Forty-seven times in his career he took 10 wickets in a match, and very late on he made his only first-class century, for Kent against Sussex at Hastings in 1984. |
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