Chappell's Notorious Underarm Delivery

Brian McKechnie should have picked the ball up and a) threw it at his head or b) walked with the ball to the boundary and thew it over the fence for six

Why did he do it anyway? All he had to do was bowl a yorker so he couldnt hit it for six.

i'm australian, but i don't feel bad saying that i was ashamed to be a supporter of australian cricket on this day. i don't tell kiwis to shut up when they bug me about it, coz i agree with them. even today i can't bring myself to look at greg chappell with respect. he still defends his actions, disgraceful and unsporting as they were, and i just want to throw a cricket ball at his head. disgraceful.

hard but fair just like the sydney test imo

On 11 November 1978 there was another day of sporting infamy, when the New Zealand All Blacks pipped Wales (weakened by retirements of their greats) at Rugby, with one of the most shameful and pre-planned instances of cheating in sporting history, from which McKechnie made the winning kick. The very same McKechnie is the batsman facing the underarm ball here!

Reflects badly on Australian cricket even to this day, Chapell almost condoned his actions by refusing to condemn his own behaviour. Well done Marsh though, that man played cricket in the spirit of the game.

Australia heavily relies on sledging to secure win rather than playing in the spirit of the game.

Australia's brought Cricket to disrepute since the days of underarm bowling incident. They need a crash course in "Introduction to sportsmanship" & stop besmirching their opponents just cos they struggle against them :)

If only, they'd focused on playing Cricket than playing mind-games, they wouldn't have slipped to 4th position :)

Good riddance to their notorious domination in world cricket !!!

Dispicable behaviour by Greg, poor decision as a captain. Seriously, a six from our number 10 batsman, very unlikely. I applaud Rodney Marsh, what a man, I'd have a cold one with him.

Rodney Marsh won a lot of respect from the kiwis after apparently he was yelling out to Chappell how much of an asshole he was and he went and hung out with them in the changing room afterwards and had a beer. Honorary Kiwi that fellow Marsh. Best wicket keeper in the world and of all time I reckon. Jeff Dujon and and Ian Smith were also very good in the day. But Marsh what a hero.

Maybe if the kiwis werent so poor in the game it wouldnt of gone down to the last ball for them to have an off chance of victory? Maybe if they werent so terrible for the last 50 years of sporting history, none of this might not of happened. stupid sheep shaggers

I have tio say that is a disgraceful comment 'kusishot', you should be ashamed, New Zealand has excelled in many areas of sports and so has Australia, each of them are equally successful. What you said there was just pure poor sportsmanship, despicable!