Brian McKechnie

There’s a case to be made that Greg Chappell was the best batsman of his time. He’d probably be close to making it to an all-time Australia XI.

The cricket world was left stunned when then Australian captain Greg Chappell instructed his younger brother Trevor to bowl an underarm delivery to New Zealand's Brian McKechnie during a match of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup.

Trevor Chappell has never apologised to New Zealand for the underarm ball that shocked the cricketing world in 1981 and the former Australia batsman says there is not much point doing so now as it would not change anything.

After 40 years, New Zealand Cricket boss Martin Snedden is ready to laugh at the underarm bowling row at plunged Kiwi-Australian sporting relations to an all-time low.

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"The underarm had very little to do with winning that game of cricket, because, in fact, we'd won the game," said Chappell, now CA's talent manager.