Deadly - The Life of English International Cricketer Derek Underwood

Derek Underwood was one of Kent and England's finest-ever slow bowlers. In this first-ever biography of Underwood, Mark Peel assesses the qualities that made him such a formidable bowler, the reasons behind his signing for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket and the England rebel tour of South Africa in 1982, plus much more.

About the author

Mark Peel has written 17 other books including England Expects: A Biography of Ken Barrington (winner of the 1993 Cricket Society Award), Ambassadors of Goodwill (shortlisted for the MCC/Cricket Society Book of the Year 2018), Playing the Game? (shortlisted for the Daily Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year 2018) and Never Surrender: The Life of Douglas Jardine (shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2021).

Product details

• Authors: Mark Peel
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2025
• EAN: 9781801507332
• ISBN: 978-1-80150-733-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 243 mm x 163 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies