BhupinderSingh
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Ian Botham,but its really close.
I heard that Sobers was actually an all rounder so won the battle TBH.I heard Imran was better than both of them.
Don't you think you need to contribute positively when I've started an allrounder thread without Imran Khan for probably the first time?I heard Imran was better than both of them.
It was a joke.Don't you think you need to contribute positively when I've started an allrounder thread without Imran Khan for probably the first time?
I'm half way through it and so far it's tedious self-triumphant claptrap.Just finished the Botham bio, once I would have said it very close, but now I think for a period Botham close to the greatest AR ever
I was sick of all the mentions of his wife, 'Poor Cath, blah blah blah'I'm half way through it and so far it's tedious self-triumphant claptrap.
There's no doubting his cricketing ability, indeed for a time he was almost as good as he keeps on telling everyone he was. For me his description of the Randall run out by Boycott at Trent Bridge in 1977 is so bad it calls into question the accuracy of his other recollections. According to Botham, Boycott played the ball straight to a fielder in the covers, when in reality the ball went back to the bowler - Jeff Thomson - who returned to Marsh and he ran out Randall. A small detail perhaps, but if his memory is that distorted it makes you wonder about the rest of the book.I was sick of all the mentions of his wife, 'Poor Cath, blah blah blah'
But the amount of tons and wickets he seemed to be taking for a period, almost every other Test a ton or a 5 for
I've never really had any doubt TBH.Just finished the Botham bio, once I would have said it very close, but now I think for a period Botham close to the greatest AR ever
No it is not.I am not going to vote because I never saw either of the two play but my Dad (who admittedly knows jack-all about cricket but was an avid fan in the 80s and early 90s) said that Botham's wickets were usually quite lucky - e.g. caught at cover, strangled down leg side...etc...is this true?