Derek Alexander Stirling (born 5 October 1961, Upper Hutt

Upper Hutt

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, Wellington

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) is a former New Zealand

New Zealand

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 cricket

Cricket

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er who played in 6 Tests

Test cricket

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 and 6 ODIs from 1984 to 1986.

Derek Stirling played 2 seasons 1981 - 1982 in Scottish Club Cricket for Stenhousemuir CC. He was an able coach, an excellent all rounder and a very pleasant person. He was a fine right handed batsman and a very good fast bowler, even on the slow Scottish wickets.

Most cricket statisticians will know the facts that Ian Botham

Ian Botham

Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well-known by his nickname "Beefy"...

 struck 24 runs (464604) from one over from Derek Stirling at the Oval in 1986. The forgetten fact from that match was that Stirling having beaten Botham for pace and bounce had him dropped behind the wicket by Tony Blain

Tony Blain

Tony Elston Blain was an understudy to Ian Smith and Adam Parore, he played in 11 Tests and 38 One Day Internationals for New Zealand, after retiring from the game he went from coaching to a commentator....

(wicketkeeper), off the last ball of his previous over. Botham then did what he could have done to most bowlers of that era.