Chapter 1: What is the significance of the Underarm incident in cricket history?
This is the Agenda Underarm Special. The Agenda, an alternative commentary collective podcast. G'day there, this is the Agenda Podcast Underarm Special with myself, ACC Hauraki here, G Lane, Matt Heath and Jeremy Wells. 40 years today. Wow. 40 years. Since that infamous underarm incident at the MCG.
1982. Hey, do you know people think that this incident did a lot to actually popularise cricket in New Zealand?
Yeah, I was listening to the BYC podcast. They talked to Martin Sneddon, and he said at the time cricket and golf was more popular than, not cricket, golf and tennis were more popular than cricket at the time. Wow. And after this incident, it actually made cricket, actually one of the turning points in cricket's popularity. Still hurts today, though, doesn't it? Let's be honest, it still hurts.
It's as raw as it was in 1982.
I was very young. I can't remember it. In fact, I was three. But what we're going to do now, today, we're going to re-watch this final over. We're going to watch all six balls. I don't know. And we're going to pick it to pieces. I know it's raw for you, Gary. I don't know if I can do this.
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Chapter 2: How did the Underarm incident impact cricket's popularity in New Zealand?
You're all of four or five.
I don't know if I can do this again. It's too soon. I live through this. We're going to do it.
We did it with the World Cup final. Okay. And we're doing it again.
All right. You understand, this is one of my first sporting memories. This is one of them. And did this turn you on to cricket? Well, I remember we were actually at the Mount. We were on holiday at the Mount when this happened. And I don't know if it turned me on to cricket, but I remember we did play a lot of backyard cricket.
My dad, my brother, and I, over this particular summer, is when I started being interested in cricket, whether or not this had anything to do with it. But I've never watched this underarm before. I've never seen it. I've purposely made sure I saw it when I was four, and then I just turned myself away from it.
Whenever I saw it, I closed my eyes. Lock the doors. Lock the doors because this over, there's a lot goes on in this over. It is a lot goes on. So let's get into it.
Richard Hadley. And will he be able to perform the miracle New Zealand so badly needs?
So he's facing Trevor Chappell. It's a dibbly-dobbly. Look at him. Hadley, no helmet. Boom. Good start to the over. So how many do they need at this point? So great start to the over. Richard Hadley, without his helmet on, gets served up.
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Chapter 3: What emotions do the hosts express while rewatching the final over?
This looks like a juicy half volley from Trevor Chappell and smashes him over mid-on.
So this pitch at the MCG, famous for being slow and low that summer. It was a hot summer. And this day, I think, was a particularly hot day. I think in the 40s. Yeah, well, that was a good start, and we'll find out. But hang on, I don't know what's the score, how many they need, what's the equation at this point? Well, they didn't used to tell you in those days.
You didn't really know what was going on the whole time.
Because all we know that on that last ball needed six off the last ball. To tie. To tie. Yeah, so only six to tie. Yeah. Which just makes how ridiculous.
I feel like they needed 15 off the over, but I might be wrong. It might be 11.
Which was impossible back then. But also great, such disrespect for Trevor Chappell. With Richard Hadley coming out with no, not a hat on, not a helmet on.
No, he didn't wear hats in those days. If you weren't wearing a helmet, and they did have weird hats in 1981, weird helmets, but if you didn't wear a helmet, then you just wore no hat at all.
Okay.
Most people in the audience knew.
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Chapter 4: What were the key moments during Richard Hadley's batting?
He's been struggling all season to get an LBW himself. On this occasion. Oh.
No. Oh, God.
That is pitched so far outside leg. Rod Marsh is down the leg side. Rod Marsh, where he's standing, where I've paused it right there.
Yeah.
Is that a wicket keeper who thinks it's hitting the wickets? No. It definitely would have. I think it would have hit leg stump because it just nipped away from Richard Hadley. But there is no way that was shaped the wrong way. And look how quickly he puts his finger up.
Immediately. No deliberation at all.
Watch the finger.
Yeah.
I think that Richard Hadley could justifiably... Terrible decision.
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Chapter 5: How did the umpire's controversial decision affect the game?
Do you reckon he would have made the second now?
How many ones is he turning into twos now? How many twos is he turning into threes?
Not a lot. How many threes is he turning into no runs at all dots?
Controversial, though, because you think about it, at the other end is Bruce Edgar on 102. Do you feed the strike to him, or is it all about runs, or is Stockley Smith the one to get us home?
I think he's the bigger hitter, Stockley Smith, isn't he, than Bootsy? I mean, yeah, Bootsy wasn't a big hitter, but he is on 100. But look, there was no strategy to one-day cricket in 1981. I mean, it was only new. They'd only just got into the coloured clothes a few years before that, so nobody really knew. And this is a high-pressure environment. Full house at the MCG.
So what are we looking at here?
We're looking at... You now need...
Let's look at a tie. Seven off two. Seven off two balls for a win for New Zealand.
Now this is a controversial shot here from Stockley Smith. He's got the grey nickels scoop. Come on.
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Chapter 6: What strategies were discussed regarding the pressure on players?
And gives him a little tap on the ass there. You see that little tap? He goes, go on, mate. And now the umpires are coming together, telling each other, little cheating motherfuckers,
Why are they telling each other?
They're saying they're going to bow under him.
Oh, McKinney's throwing his bat. McKinney, who's operating quite a good package, by the way.
Rod Marsh is saying no, mate.
He's not happy about it. Rod Marsh not happy about it.
Yeah, so listening to the BYC podcast again with Martin Sneddon, he said, look, Rod Marsh, great guy. Great guy that he's folding his arm saying, nah, mate, don't do it. But he could have stopped it. He could have walked up the pitch and he could have said, don't do it, mate. But he said he sat behind the stumps and shook his head. Also...
Martin Sneddon said, everyone knows you don't bowl underarm. Everyone knows that. The umpires could have stopped it themselves.
Yeah, but hold on. But it was in the rules. I'm not blaming Rod Marsh for getting out. I mean, he just stood there. He said no. I mean, what else can you do? He's captain. You can walk out and say, don't do this. Yeah, but he showed that he wasn't into it. But I mean, it's his captain. I don't know. It was a different time.
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Chapter 7: What happened during the final moments of the match?
He is a real good bastard. He is one of the greatest Australians.
Well, it wasn't really his fault either, was it?
No, I know. But just saying, he's not the villain here.
No, no.
Greg Chappell is. Greg Chappell is. Here we go. See? Hey, can we stop it for a second?
You own this ball? Yes, I've got this ball. You bought this ball that's about to be bowled here, didn't you? It's been hit. How much did you pay for it? 10 grand? Yeah, 10 grand. You've done terrible things to it.
It was 15 years ago.
Skipper. Here you go.
Here we go. You're going to get an underarm. If you haven't believed it. Now, he's bowled that. Was that going down leg?
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts reflect on the legacy of the Underarm incident?
That wasn't with any kind of benefit of hindsight. That was live and he got it right, Richie Beno, most of the time, didn't he?
That's interesting that, because I never understood, I've always heard, I've heard that a lot. I don't understand what he meant by he's got his sums wrong. I thought that was a saying like he's got this wrong. But what he's actually referring to is the sums of the amount of overs, the bowlers wrong.
That still hurt. I mean, that's opening a can of worms for me. Yeah.
You're okay?
I wish I didn't see that. Why do I have to see that?
Well, because everyone has to at some stage. Can I open another can of worms?
No.
Well, I've got a can of worms because there's been Australians that have said that an Australian wouldn't have just blocked the ball and then huffed the bat like McKee cleaned in. He would have attempted to flick it up with his foot and then smash it for six.
At the MCG. At the MCG. So a ball with no pace coming at you, you're basically trying to changer it for six.
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