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Cricket’s “underarm incident” was so controversial it drew furious responses from two prime ministers.
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Brian looked like Tarzan hit like Jane-Some random Blackcap player
Kholi kholi
Tradition-shamition… what is the RULE? Opinion-shaminion, what is the LAW?
Well to tie actually, not to draw.
I know literally nothing about cricket but if it wasn't against the rules then it seems like it's fair game. Someone has to break the spirit of the game to show the gaps in the rules I reckon
this is deeply within NZ lore. I was born a long time after yet I can quote the entire thing, and it's practically a kiwi meme commenting on how scummy australians are
an NZ never got over it😂😂😂😂
So in early days of cricket, bowlers bowled with underarm action. Slowly, this changed and bowlers started using round arm action(bowling by moving the entire arm in a round way)
But the MCC, the governing body of cricket, just accepted round arm bowling and never changed the rules to make underarm bowling illegal. So Greg Chappell was aware of this, and he instructed his brother to bowl in that manner, knowing fully well that whatever they were doing wasnt illegal. It was after this incident that underarm bowling was finally outlawed from cricket's rules. In 2005, during the inaugural T20(20 overs per side) match between New Zealand and Australia, the two teams revisited this bitter incident in a very cheeky manner. New Zealand were chasing, and had already lost the match, as they needed 50+ runs in the final over to win(the max you can score in a legal over is 36, by hitting every ball for a six). So Glenn McGrath, Australia's premier fast bowler and one of cricket's greatest bowlers of all time, cheekily bowled an underarm ball. Both the teams had a good laugh about this, and i think McGrath was shown a red card by the umpire as part of the joke.
So the ball was actually bowled.
Was legal play, right? Everyone needed to grow up
That's Australian mentality of winning! They'll go to any extreme to win the match!
Because when you win the trophy nothing will be remembered! It's about winning or losing the game who cares about spirit of the game at all?
No one knows anything about cricket so no one knows why it was such a terrible play
To me, this is similar to the fake quarterback slide in American football or the infield fly in baseball. It exploited an unseen loophole that SHOULD have been illegal but wasn’t. Defense attorneys everywhere were probably smiling.
Ahh yes, it’s the Australians as always
But if the rules allow the underarm bowling then the problem is not with the players it’s the rules.
Typical aussies
Typical Aussies
Even the controversy in that sport is boring 😢
And? Did something happen?
Cricket scandal championship is AUSTRALIA
Ofc its Australia, and ofc its Greg tarnishing the Chappel name, yet again
I was 14 when this happened and was absolutely appalled. I still occasionally recall how I never saw the Chapelles from that point as anything other than toerags. A national disgrace.
It's important to note that historically, in cricket, "the spirit of the game" had been almost more important than the rules. Hence the expression "that's just not cricket". And hence both sides condemning the action even if legally there was nothing to penalise.
This moment is so infamous that people in New Zealand and Australia still talk about it to this day
How wasnt it a no ball?
Robert Muldoon, the guy from Jurassic Park
More cricket posting!
Dont hate the player, hate the game/the rule makers who made it legal to do so.
Is this a fake game?
The Aussies NEED to win, really NEED to win at ANY cost. They have NO shame at all. "Sport" died years ago once Big Money became involved.
Just hit the ball, fecking skill issues with those blokes, them sheep "herding" weirdies… lol
Of course it was the aussies could have told you that before the vid started
It's always them sandpapers!
Was underarm allowed back then??
Its funny how if it happened today no one would care. ODIs have no value in the cricket economy
Don't care, didn't lose.
It's always Australia
Well, the Australian Captain did what he had to do. To win at all costs 😂
My opinion is to ramp jt
When Greg Chappel toured NZ the year after, his first game walking out to bat a lawn ball was rolled out of the crowd at him to much laughter.
It was a legal ball. New Zealand and anyone else complaining need to realise it was legal to do it at the time. Brilliant move by the Chappell brother's. That ball won the series. 🏆🎉🎉🎉
it was legal at the time, no controversy…