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- As a child, he says, he knew he was destined to play cricket at the highest level. At 13 the careers advisor asked what he was going to do with life. Back then he was no different - brimming with certainties. His first goal was to make a living from cricket.
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Botham developed an eagerness for the game before he had started school: he would climb through the fence of the Yeovil Boys' Grammar School to watch the pupils play cricket. At the age of around four, he came home with a cricket ball and asked his mother "Do you know how to hold a ball when you're going to bowl a daisy-cutter?"
- How good was Botham? : There have been few players who could dominate a Test more than Botham. As many as 30 times have cricketers scored a hundred and taken a five-wicket haul in the same Test.
- The first-born: Les (a cricketer, footballer, and athlete) and Marie Botham (a cricketer who also excelled at hockey and badminton) had tried for several children, only to result in miscarriages.
- Morning shows the day: On one occasion, Marie had left Ian with some toys in a playpen and went to the kitchen, only to find the young man at her ankles.
- Signature style: Ian was seven when Marie found him scribbling something “over and over on a piece of paper” with his tongue hanging out in concentration.
After a poor run in Grade Cricket in Australia, Sir Ian made his Test debut against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1977 and he made an impact when he picked up 5/74 to put England on top....
Then began the most famous few weeks in English cricket history when Botham (under Mike Brearley's captaincy) led England to an astonishing Ashes victory with three performances -...
- Male
- December 24, 1955
- England
Nov 26, 2020 · For a younger cricketing audience who hadn’t witnessed Botham’s epic feats as a player, and had Flintoff in 2005, or even Stokes in 2019, as their entry point into the game, he had become increasingly irrelevant – known for wine, for Brexit, for charity walks, for knighthoods and peerages, but not necessarily for what made him famous in the firs...
- Jo Harman
Nov 24, 2012 · Sir Ian Terence Botham was not knighted for his services to cricket. It was for his charitable acts that he won his knighthood. You see, one can only be knighted once in your lifetime.
He later moved to Yeovil, Somerset where he began playing cricket – playing for Somerset under 15s. As a youngster he was also a talented footballer – for a short time, he played for Scunthorpe United, before settling on cricket as his chosen sport.
