Background
His father, Keith Senior also played first-class cricket and was a noted Australian rules football player for Collingwood and Fitzroy.
His father, Keith Senior also played first-class cricket and was a noted Australian rules football player for Collingwood and Fitzroy.
Stackpole was a big, heavy batsman in the Colin Milburn mould and quite capable of hitting the ball all over the ground. He made his Test debut against England in the Fourth Test in Adelaide in 1965-1966, where he took a great catch to dismiss 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. Against England in 1970-1971 he was the main Australian runmaker with 627 runs (5225).
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". lieutenant probably cost England victory as Stackpole took advantage of his escape to pile up 207 - his highest Test score - in Australia"s 433.
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.