The Untold Doug Walters Story From The Underarm Incident | Rush Hour with JB & Billy | Triple M 

Doug Walters was a great of the game and after retiring from International play he toured Australia with a group picking the best local talent to play against the touring west indies 2nd eleven in my home town .On this day I got to watch my fast bowling mentor opening the bowling for Doug and later in the days play also watch Augustine Logie Hit Numerous sixes with at least 2 leaving the ground completely 7 in total or so. Also got to meet Tony Greig and Ian Chappell and my dad asked them to sign my Match record and Tony Greig Stopped and Ian Chappell kept walking tony then called him to stop being a dickhead and comeback and sign my book and they both signed my book and Tony said to Ian give me the ball he then handed me a 4 piece white ball still remember it like it was last year wonderful memory . Side note Ian Chappell your still that stuck up shit twat I met when I was a kid and to Tony Greig thank you sir you were true gentleman RIP

Trevor Chappell never conspired he just did what he was told by his captain

Unfortunately, Brian McKechnie didn't have a week to think about it as Doug Walters did. I wonder if Doug Walters would have come up with that idea with a minutes notice that he was going to be given an underarm ball. I doubt it very much. Also, the way McKechnie handled himself that day was a true credit to him.

Fun fact that One Day in played in Sydney was Doug Walters last one One Day game.

Even now, all these years later, I still find this the most disgraceful thing ever seen on a sports field. Only an Australian would even consider such a thing……Buts that’s one hell of a story! Interestingly, Walter’s averaged nearly 50 in test cricket

Even if he charged down the pitch, there would still have been an appeal for lbw.

Fact check: True. Graeme Pollock did exactly the same thing in South Africa a few days after this happened to prove it can be done.

Doug Walters is my second eldest brother's hero. Doug inspired my brother to play cricket with passion and flare if and when the opportunity needed it so. (We all saw him score that 100 in a session and marvelled.) He was playing in the 13A's at school at the same time Doug was playing test cricket and in one game he made it into the 90's quickly. At 91 he hit a six straight over the wicket keeper's head. Full control of the shot just like his hero. By this stage a crowd had gathered to watched a rare century. If you scored a century in any team at the school you were presented with a brand new cricket bat at the next school assembly. Rare and huge in a all boys school. Much to everyone's dismay my brother was retired by the coach on 97. It was a Christian Brothers school and the scumbag was one. I use that term because throughout his interactions with my family including my gentle Father and many others, he left that summation clear and without doubt. Obviously no new bat, Dad bought him one to say thanks for the good grace and sportsmanship he showed to his team mates and all present. Doug would have been proud of my brother. They accidentally met many decades later at a bar in Sydney. Just the two of them and he plucked up the courage to say gidday to his childhood hero and shouted Doug a few beers or three. One of my brother's happiest memories. For me, my cricket heroes are two men from the same era who were both prodigies. Don Bradman and Archie Jackson. Prior to entering 1st Class cricket around the same time, Jackson's stats were better than Sir Donald's. That's saying something. His Test debut at 19 years of age against England in the 28-29 series he made 164. He died 4 years later of TB. Many believe that if his health had been robust he may have rivalled Bradman as the greatest of all time. All conjecture but what a contemplation, two amazing talents on the planet at the same time. Both playing for our country against the Poms. However, fate handed all of us the genius that was The Don. Oh to be there to watch his 309 not out in a day at Leeds. In a day. I know Barry Richards did similar for South Australia in a Shield game. But this is test cricket on uncovered pitches with the simple bats of the day. 309. In a day. That along with his average will never ever be surpassed. Maybe the good Lord ordained that one cricket prodigy at a time was enough. God bless both of them.

Greg Chappell AND Trevor Chappell conspired? Greg was captain and made the call.

Yep Greg made the call and those aussies in close proximity went 'no way mate'..............an absolute brain fart that will NEVER be forgotten..........we can talk about it now in hushed tones..........lol

Some of the baseball skills from Doug from Dungog coming out there. Pop up batting practice. Doug and other Hunter region cricketers like Gus Gilmore used to put a team together that played around the traps. Some of the shots he played would never appear in a coaching manual....he is one of a kind.

He needed a 6 to make it a “tie”. No such thing as a “draw” in one day cricket. Also a bit harsh to say Trevor Chappell “conspired”. He was ordered to do it by his captain. Doug Walters hit a 100 in a session not once. But THREE times. He might be the only batsman other than Bradman to do that in a test career.

Same match snedden takes an outfield catch umpires said not out. NZ robbed

A good umpire would give it out for hitting the ball twice under rule 34.1.1.

My recollection of the story was that it did take Dougie two goes but the new version of the story is much better for posterity! 😂 Of course, the SCG no.2 oval was also the scene of an earlier legend of Doug's which is that - if memory serves me correctly - as a schoolboy playing for NSW, he hit the ball out of the ground into 'Kippax lake', a large pond in the adjacent Moore Park.

Absolute rubbish, if you let the ball hit your foot without first trying to hit it with your bat, the 6 leg byes are disallowed, and on top of that if you are in front of the stumps then you are out lbw. Nice myth.

it's in marsh's autobiography.

aussies love 'embellishing' their stories.

Pure genius. Shame I only saw him in the '72 Ashes when he had a poor season. Would have been good to have seen him at his best.

grubber

Bill : Is Doug still with us 😂😂 bit like Keith Richards

Would love to hear the confirmation from Doug.

Great douggiue. None of the Hindu players from RSS india team would have thought this.

What a great story thats fantastic. The great Douglas Walters.

Backi Marsh!!!

14 at the time and still remember it like yesterday. Most of us kiwis are over it by now 🙃

Good call Greg, the cleverest man on the field.and we got the cash.

It was a gift to New Zealand. They haven't stopped whinging about it ever since. They should say thank you.

Nz cricket was in trouble chappell was talking with a nz player don't worry leave it to me ...Australia went to nz next season grounds full....

Then there was Sandpapergate, another Aussie 'accident' lol

He hit two centuries in a session , West indies and England

That wasn't the only controversy in that game the umpires also cheated remember Sneddons catch the umpire claimed he didn't see

Trevor Chappell did not conspire to bowl that ball he was against it, but Greg was his Captain and he had to do it .

That story is absolute rubbish. Nonsense. Never happened

He would have been out hit the ball twice. See law 34.

Australians can dress it up as they will, but the underarm incident was still a dreadful act of unsportsmanship.

I think it was just a prevailing theory. I doubt it ever practically ever happned.

A mate of mine worked with DW at Rothmans and I went with him to meet DW at Perth airport when he was flying over for a Shield match. What a great guy. Then later he got 100 in a session, pity there aren't more like him instead of the un-smiling lot we have nowadays.

JB it was DK Lillee who told Bacchus about his record and the early dropped catches!

Untold story, told in Allan Border’s first autobiography 30 years ago….

Why did the umpire have to inform the Batter it was going to be bowled underarm?

I guess that’s why that gentleman was the New Zealand Prime Minister at the time !!!

I believe South African Clive Rice did a similar demo on camera a while later.

Loved Freddy my favourite cricketer when I was young & playing. Been to a few sportsman nights out here to see him & he tells some funny stories bout skull O'Keefe

Holly mother of Krishna. Ganpati level of genius.

Heard this story before. Doug was one of my boyhood heroes. He conned Rod out of the money, although I'd be stunned if either new the Law "Hit the ball twice". Doug would have been out under this Law if there was an appeal. Even if there was no appeal, runs can only be scored from an overthrow. so, you might hit the ball over the boundary, but you won't get any runs.

JB exaggerates like a foul mouth

Yeah but Dougie knew the grabber was coming!

Old news. It’s been told many times

That settles that then. Hahaha, I love that story!!

A dog act by yet another Chappell, backyard cricket in the Chappell family would have been intersting

Allan Border tells this story and it’s a little different. In the change room after the underarm game Doug said this is how you hit it for six: down the track, off the foot, bang over mid wicket. So next day at the nets the whole team was trying it, even the kiwi players and they all had a good laugh together.

Rod, call Doug and ask for your money back. A batsman is only allowed to make two distinct attempts to play the ball if it is to protect his stumps. In any case, no runs can be scored in those circumstances. Kicking the ball and hitting it with the bat are two different plays. (Otherwise, why have you never seen a batsman swing at a ball he's padded up to and it's stopped dead at his feet?)

The underarm was somewhere between weakness and cowardice but it was not cheating. Nothing wrong with "using" the rules...exploiting them even.

I called bullshit from the kiwis then and still do.It was legal. Us the rules to your advantage. Mckechnie wouldn’t have hit it past the bowler anyway. I would have done it in a heartbeat

Love it.

Would like to hear about the time that Doug got banned

When it comes to the under ball incident I have one question why was that even a rule to begin with.