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If not the best-ever all-rounder, Ian Botham is certainly the greatest match winner.Nothing spurred him on more than a Test against the Aussies.
In his 1977 debut, he caught the first wicket to fall before claiming the first of five victims with the ball, Aussie captain Greg Chappell.He proved a thorn in the sides of successive Australian skippers, dismissing both Kim Hughes and Allan Border a dozen times. Botham's batting cannot be dismissed.
Two of his four Ashes centuries came in 1981, when he was at his peak.
Having resigned from the England captaincy after bagging a pair at Lord’s, Botham turned the tide of the Headingley Test and, in turn, the series.
He was a captain's dream with bat and ball as well as being a towering presence in the slips, taking 57 of 120 Test catches against Australia. this image shows him bowling out another victim |
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