What happened in the NZ cricket dressing room after the infamous underarm? : Warren Lees

[@Shaun-o8g]

Imo..... Trevor should've told Greg too FO!!!

[@pauliejay4161]

Jesus man, the announcer - "an iconic piece of NZ history" - and then proceeds to demonstrate that he knows almost nothing about it. Do some research bro.

[@dlamiss]

Great comment

[@Igloo3471]

Yep - comes across as a fat IT nerd. Probably knows more about World of Warcraft or some other nonsense than any other subject.

[@markcoleman8508]

There’s something happened that was even more disgusting than an under arm bowl. One of NZbest ever threw a young boy over the boundary fence in front of the Bradman Stand at the SCG because the boy fielded the ball before it hit the fence. Funny how I have never seen anything said about this. Don’t say this is BS, I was there and seen it.

[@wolves7655]

Wow this interviewer really had the facts of this game at his fingertips....

[@Levin-ey1bu]

He did his research that’s for sure. A real pro.

[@jamesihaka7823]

Yeah, he was like "when was it 83/84? at the SCG??" total shithouse research

[@stevehughes1510]

Geez Brittenden doesn't follow NZ sport does he and he went to SHC the same college as me where sport is a major thing. Warren's candid account is good to hear, a dark day for NZ/Aussie sport for sure.

[@petersmith9785]

It should NEVER ever have happened Trevor should've bowled a yorker and got that batsman out had that have happened there would've been NO controversy unfortunately we can't turn back time and rectify our mistakes!!

[@Powerage_86]

Trevor is not to blame as Ian rightly pointed out. He had to do what his captain also his brother ordered.

[@dn-anonymous]

sad day, but kinda funny when you look back

[@Myke...]

Brian McKechnie be interesting to interview with two controversial legendary sporting events in the days before professionalism in two sports.

[@indrajitmajumdar8590]

That was coward ness. That was lack of spine. That was betrayal to the game.

[@andyfoxy3140]

That's the convict genes

[@craigmacfarlane2722]

@@andyfoxy3140 Bowling underarm is still legal.. Stop being the biggest sooks in the history of sport. Get over your hurt feelings FFS..

[@andyfoxy3140]

@@craigmacfarlane2722 Australians have a long history of cheating in cricket. Comes natural to them….and they proud of it

[@alwaysright3718]

NZ cried like the babies they are, they still cry today like little babies. Get over it you lost fair and square to a smarter country...

[@IanGorton]

They needed six to tie. Not win it.

[@nickvegas2459]

Has anyone ever tried to roll a cricket ball at an 8 inch target? Almost impossible. Imagine if a ball ar 2 were called wide? 4 to win!

[@mludsladiesgentlemen1774]

There was only one way to deal with this and it lay in Rod Marsh's gloves. Firstly Marsh knew it was wrong - all he needed to do was have a word with McKechnie and walk around IN FRONT of the stumps and take the ball as McKechnie left it. Keeping doing that for any further balls bowled underarm. WHY - because the square leg umpire would have signal No Ball every time Marsh did it.

[@SamraatMaharjan]

Jesus, guy doesn't know which year wss that and ehe doesn't even know the venue. Ridiculous. They don't know the exact stats as well. Hahaha it's not hard to google and chcek the scorecard if they don't know. They needed 7 runs to win.

[@xaphre]

Well. I was in my late teens probably. As long as it's in the rules (like Mankading or leg-theory bowling) it's fair. Even so, the Chappells missed a trick here: they didn't have to resort to underarm. The rule back then was that in case of equal scores, the team having lost less wickets would win. Perhaps it really was too hot. Disclaimer: NZ are my favourite side (even if I am diehard Pakistani), but what's legal is legal.

[@davidgraham8299]

I'm not sure that's right. Don't think there was countbacks like that back then.

[@xaphre]

@@davidgraham8299 if memory serves me right, it was so. There were one or two international games won by the side having lost less wickets, when scores were equal.

[@mattmerritt5541]

But it’s not like Mankading. That’s a bowler stopping a batsman taking an unfair advantage. This was a bowler stopping a batsman having a fair chance.

[@xaphre]

@@mattmerritt5541 it was within the rules. So the bowler was utilising his own fair chance. Too many rules are already in the batter's favour. It's about time balance was restored.

[@bigmofarah9084]

Odd take

[@Igloo3471]

Chappell should get a medal for services to New Zealand cricket after that. Afterall, NZ cricket was basically a nonentity and the players from the national team totally unknown by their own public until that happened! If one T.Chappell hadn't have put NZ cricket on the map who knows, the sport might've totally disappeared out of the place.

[@SPOOKSTR]

All Edgar had to do was toe the ball into the air and belt it over long on. Poor dumb Kiwi could have won the game....

[@mludsladiesgentlemen1774]

Poor dumb poster - Edgar could not do anything as he was at the non strikers end. The world loves a moron.

[@gregthebaker829]

Great point. Apart from the fact the batsman was McKechnie.

[@davidhaynes8745]

And a six would have drawn the game.

[@gregthebaker829]

@@davidhaynes8745 'not being that guy' but it would have been a count back on wickets lost and Austrailia would have won anyway.

[@yacsem]

@@gregthebaker829 And probably LBW as well

[@alwaysright3718]

NZ cried like the babies they are, they still cry today like little babies. Get over it you lost fair and square to a smarter country...

[@aguy6833]

wahhh wahh bodyline

[@Callidus47]

It was a dog act and all the Aussies except Greg Chappell knew it