Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955 Heswall, Merseyside ) is a former English cricketer and current radio and television commentator of international cricket matches. Because of his success, he is considered sporting legend.
Sporting career
County Championship
Botham played from 1974 to 1993 in the English County Championship for Somerset, Worcestershire and Durham. In the 1986/87 season he also played in Australia for Queensland. In his team he was rounder, so both as a batsman ( bat ) and as a bowler ( pitcher ) was used. Overall he had 402 missions in first-class matches and 470 missions in One - Day matches.
International career
His first Test match played Botham in 1977. A total of 102 test matches for England, which extended over a period of 15 years, he scored 14 Centuries and 383 wickets. Particularly in the first half of his career his stats were so good that he had been set up as a specialist batsman or bowler. The second half of his career, however, drops significantly, which is partly due to a back injury, which greatly reduced his throwing speed.
In 12 Test matches, he was captain of the England team, without being able to achieve notable success.
In addition, he played from 1976 to 1992 in 116 one- day internationals for England.
Botham holds a number of records, including the still for the highest number of wickets in Test cricket for England.
Botham 's Ashes
In the Ashes series in 1981 Botham was a legend. After a defeat and a draw in the first two games, he resigned from the post of team captain, after he had scored a single run in two innings in the final game.
In the third game, which was played at Headingley, the English team was hopelessly ( bets were 1-500 ), as Botham turned the game with an innings of 149 runs and England still won. The match was such a degree of attention from the public that even the House of Commons interrupted his session and the team sent its congratulations.
In the next game, the English were again in a difficult position before Botham in a bowling spell of 28 balls five Australian wickets achieved in only one run of the opponent and his team gave the victory. In the next game he scored a Century. In total, he scored in the Test series 399 runs and 34 wickets. England won 3-1 with two draws.
Football
Private life
Botham has been married since 1976. He has two daughters and a son. Last has also played first-class cricket, but mainly Rugby Union and Rugby League respectively in the first division.
Botham has for many years intensive, especially by long-distance marches for the charity " Leukaemia Research ", which has made it its mission to support research in the field of leukemia and related diseases. Botham has already more than 10 million pounds raised for the organization, which he is president.
Honors
1978 Botham was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year. In 1981, he was elected in the UK Sportsman of the Year; He received the same honor in 2004 again for his life's work.
Botham was taken for his services to cricket sport and for his commitment to charitable causes in 1992 in the Order of the British Empire, 2007, he was therefore defeated by Queen Elizabeth II to Knight.
Footnotes
- Sports journalist
- Cricketer (England)
- Football players (England)
- Knight Bachelor
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Briton
- Born in 1955
- Man