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{{short description|Australian cricketer}}
{{for|the Australian rules footballer|Keith Stackpole (footballer)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Keith Stackpole
|               image = 
|             country = Australia
|            fullname = Keith Raymond Stackpole
|          birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|7|10|df=yes}}
|         birth_place = [[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia
|            nickname = 
|              height =
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = [[Leg break]]
|                role = Batsman 
|              family = 
|       international = true
|       testdebutdate = 26 January
|       testdebutyear = 1966
|    testdebutagainst = England
|             testcap = 238
|        lasttestdate = 22 March
|        lasttestyear = 1974
|     lasttestagainst = New Zealand
|           testshirt = 
|        odidebutdate = 5 January
|        odidebutyear = 1971
|     odidebutagainst = England
|              odicap = 9
|         lastodidate = 31 March
|         lastodiyear = 1974
|      lastodiagainst = New Zealand
|               club1 = [[Victoria cricket team|Victoria]]
|               year1 = {{nowrap|1959–1974}}
|             columns = 4
|             column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
|            matches1 = 43
|               runs1 = 2,807
|            bat avg1 = 37.42
|           100s/50s1 = 7/14
|          top score1 = 207
|         deliveries1 = 2,321
|            wickets1 = 15
|           bowl avg1 = 66.73
|            fivefor1 = 0
|             tenfor1 = 0
|       best bowling1 = 2/33
|  catches/stumpings1 = 47/–
|             column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
|            matches2 = 6
|               runs2 = 224
|            bat avg2 = 37.33
|           100s/50s2 = 0/3
|          top score2 = 61
|         deliveries2 = 77
|            wickets2 = 3
|           bowl avg2 = 18.00
|            fivefor2 = 0
|             tenfor2 = 0
|       best bowling2 = 3/40
|  catches/stumpings2 = 1/–
|             column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
|            matches3 = 167
|               runs3 = 10,100
|            bat avg3 = 39.29
|           100s/50s3 = 22/50
|          top score3 = 207
|         deliveries3 = 14,102
|            wickets3 = 148
|           bowl avg3 = 39.28
|            fivefor3 = 2
|             tenfor3 = 0
|       best bowling3 = 5/38
|  catches/stumpings3 = 166/–
|             column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
|            matches4 = 16
|               runs4 = 522
|            bat avg4 = 34.80
|           100s/50s4 = 0/5
|          top score4 = 69
|         deliveries4 = 240
|            wickets4 = 10
|           bowl avg4 = 17.50
|            fivefor4 = 0
|             tenfor4 = 0
|       best bowling4 = 3/14
|  catches/stumpings4 = 8/–
|                date = 22 October
|                year = 2010
|              source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1278/1278.html CricketArchive
}}
'''Keith Raymond Stackpole Jr.''' (born 10 July 1940) is a former [[Victoria (Australia)|Victorian]] and Australian [[cricket]]er who played in 43 [[Test cricket|Test matches]] and six [[One Day International]]s between 1966 and 1974. He went on to become a cricket commentator on radio and TV in the 80s and 90s. His father, [[Keith Stackpole (footballer)|Keith Stackpole Sr.]] also played first-class cricket and was a noted [[Australian rules]] footballer for [[Collingwood Football Club|Collingwood]] and [[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]].

Stackpole was a big, heavy batsman in the [[Colin Milburn]] mould and quite capable of hitting the ball all over the ground.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} He made his Test debut against England in the [[1965–66 Ashes series#Fourth Test – Adelaide|Fourth Test in Adelaide in 1965–66]], where he took a great catch to dismiss [[Jim Parks, Jr.|Jim Parks]], made 43 batting at number 8 and took the wickets of the England captain [[M.J.K. Smith]] and his vice-captain [[Colin Cowdrey]] with his leg spin, his 2/33 remaining his best Test figures. Australia won by an innings to square the series. Against [[English cricket team in Australia in 1970–71|England in 1970–71]] he was the main Australian runmaker with 627 runs (52.25). In the First Test Stackpole should have been run out for 18 as [[Geoff Boycott]] threw down the wicket at the bowler's end, but the batsman was given the benefit of the doubt by [[Lou Rowan]]. The Australian papers carried photographs the next day showing that he was clearly out and labelled the decision "one of the worst in cricket history".<ref>[[John Snow (cricketer)|John Snow]], ''Cricket Rebel'', Hamlyn, 1976, p98-99</ref> It probably cost England victory as Stackpole took advantage of his escape to pile up 207 – his highest Test score – in Australia's 433. Faced with an impossible 469 runs to win in the Sixth Test Stackpole made a powerful 136 with 16 boundaries to save the game, adding 202 for the second wicket with [[Ian Chappell]] (104) as Australia made 328–3 on the last day. In the Seventh and last Test Australia needed 223 to win and save [[the Ashes]]. Stackpole hit 2 sixes and 6 fours in his 67, but received little support from the rest of the team and they were all out for 160. On the Ashes tour of [[Australian cricket team in England in 1972|England in 1972]] he was [[Ian Chappell]]'s vice-captain and made 485 runs (52.88), topping the Australian batting averages for the second series in a row and being named a [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year]] in 1973.

==References==
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==External links==
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 before=[[Ian Chappell]] |
 title=Highest Score by an Australian in ODI Cricket |
 years=61 vs England at Birmingham 1972 |
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