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| New Zealand Post in August released a set of 21 stamps on a sheet which takes you on a journey of “Kiwi” way of counting. One stamp which captures the Kiwi Flavor in Cricket is 60c Stamp showing the Six runs in Cricket popularized by the New Zealand Umpire Billy Bowden . Billy Bowden is considered to be one of the most flamboyant and theatrical umpire Cricket has ever seen. Billy Bowden suffered from Arthritis and it was too painful for him to signal the batsmen out in game of cricket in a conventional way . A leg-bye in the NatWest Series was greeted thus: "He taps his leg and shakes it. If it was butter it would be milk by now", this was captured in the television commercial ad by a renowned company [featured below] featuring him . Billy Bowden stamped his class in others signals including a "crumb-sweeping" wave of the arm to signal four, and the "double crooked finger six-phase hop" to signal a six [Featured on the stamp] Some of the other famous Kiwi numbers featured are 1 (State Highway 1) , 3 (three-hour ferry ride across Cook Strait), 4 (four stars of the Southern Cross) and 10 (ten guitars - the popular song of the 1960s). “Ten Guitars” - originally released as a B-side for Engel Bert Humperdinck in 1967 was famous worldwide and still lingers in the ears of the New Zealand listeners . |
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