sussexpob wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:Been reminded he went on a rebel tour of apartheid SA though.
Cricketers made little money in his age. I never judge a man for playing cricket somewhere just because he got loads of money.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Good stuff KJ. Cowdrey had gone by the time I watched cricket.
KipperJohn wrote:Who knows how many more wickets he would have had with DRS? …
Arthur Crabtree wrote: Fair enough with the Packer series. But there was much more at stake in SA.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Admittedly it wasn't a golden age for spin, but from 1970-1982 (so after uncovered pitches) which was the latter part of Underwood's career, he took 230 wickets at 28.5, which is decent
sussexpob wrote:Thefigures I have seen in the past indicate that cricketers earned below average wage at this time, and the money they were offered for Rebel tours amounted in some cases to 10-15 times their annual salary. If someone was to offer me that kind of money for a months work, on the caveat that there would be some form of hard to define benefit to a horrible regime that is indirectly linked to me just doing my normal job, I have no pretence about my ability to reject such an offer, and certainly if I was able to, it would be directly linked to the relatively privilaged position I enjoy on a financial level that affords me the ability to do so. I cannot imagine that the average person who earns below average wage will ever be in the position to reject such an offer.
sussexpob wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:Admittedly it wasn't a golden age for spin, but from 1970-1982 (so after uncovered pitches) which was the latter part of Underwood's career, he took 230 wickets at 28.5, which is decent
Covered pitches in test match cricket was implemented in 1979, I believe, so right at the end of his career.
Arthur Crabtree wrote: My error then. I read they ended in the sixties. Must have been fc cricket.
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