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- Ian Botham
- Australia tour of England
- 1981
- Australia, elected to bat first
The tour by the Australian cricket team in England in 1981 included the 51st Ashes series of Test matches between Australia and England. Despite having been 1–0 down after two Tests, England won the next three to finish 3–1 victors (with two draws), thus retaining the Ashes.
Jul 7, 2013 · Ian Botham reaches 100, England v Australia, 3rd Test, Headingley, July 1981. Described by Richie Benaud as the greatest Test match ever played, and the game where the legend of Ian Botham...
Dec 6, 2021 · With the home side facing odds of 500-1 to win at Headingley in 1981, two stoic Englishmen stood in the way of Kim Hughes leading his Australians to a famous victory — and it's a string of ...
Aug 20, 2019 · Ahead of the third Test at Headingley, The Cricketer recalls the match that turned Ian Botham into a British sporting icon and the 1981 Ashes on its head. In the summer of ’81, Ian Botham and England turned the Ashes series on its head by winning at Headingley – despite being forced to follow-on earlier in the Test.
- The Cricketer
Jun 29, 2014 · For the very first time a Test match became uniquely and universally identifiable by the name of a suburb and two digits — Headingley ’81. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at that incredible heist...
Jul 16, 2021 · July 16, 2021 marks forty years to the day since the Headingley Test of the 1981 Ashes started. The Test series is remembered as one of the greatest ever played, with one man at the heart of it all. Ian Botham was Player of the Match in the three games England won, with his 149* at Headingley helping script an incredible comeback, only the ...
