Ian Botham
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Sep 11, 2026
Ian WardHOST
You'll be throwing the ball to Razaullah, um, first up, that is for sure.
Ian WardHOST
Could they pull off the sort of victory that Ian Botham and Bob Willis inspired, um, for England against Australia all those years back in 1981 at Headingley? Um, the stage is certainly set for something special, and with Pakistan cricket, you don't put anything past them whatsoever.
Ian WardHOST
That has been the Daily Review.
Ian WardHOST
Thank you very much to Owen and to, uh, Chris Woakes.
Adam CollinsHOST
It's why it's always been such a special form of the game that it permits you to have the, the great rally and comeback.
Adam CollinsHOST
I mean, the comparisons I joked before about Leeds in nineteen eighty-one and, you know, what Dilly and Botham did, or what Botham and Dilly did rather to get them back in the game, and Bob Willis running down the hill and all the rest of it.
Adam CollinsHOST
Um, you know, those types of comebacks are what, uh, are what folklore is made of.
Adam CollinsHOST
Um, and yes, the probability is low, but I've said this many times, the beauty of overnight, the, the, the, the, the joy of overnight is it permits yourself for about fifteen hours to switch off and talk yourself into anything.
Charlie MethvenHOST
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Charlie MethvenHOST
Ian Botham, Joel Garner playing for them, they never won the County Championship.
Charlie MethvenHOST
And over the last five, six, seven years, numerous times they've been in a position where they've been really, really close to doing so, and they just keep on finishing second or third.
Charlie MethvenHOST
Can't quite get it over the line.
Ayaz MemonGUEST
kitab or title.
Ayaz MemonGUEST
And the best all-rounder, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, warding off rivals like Ian Botham and Richard Hadley.
Ayaz MemonGUEST
But the whole drama of Indo-Pak cricket took off there from 1978.
Ayaz MemonGUEST
We lost when we went there.
Roberto Sendoya EscobarGUEST
I always thought, yeah.
Roberto Sendoya EscobarGUEST
I mean, one of the great English heroes was obviously Botham, but he was able to master all the arts to a very high degree all together.
Roberto Sendoya EscobarGUEST
He was able to capture the art of bowling reasonably well, which made him an all-rounder.
Roberto Sendoya EscobarGUEST
He was never going to be the greatest bowler, but he was able to master that.
Andy ZaltzmanCORRESPONDENT
Uh, most recently, Vernon Philander of South Africa was the only one to do it in the last 30 years.
Andy ZaltzmanCORRESPONDENT
The last England bowler to do it was Ian Botham, um, back in the late '70s.
Andy ZaltzmanCORRESPONDENT
And the only other England seamer to reach 100 wickets with an average under 20 in test cricket was George Lohmann, medium pacer in the very early years of test, uh, test cricket in the, in the 19th century.
Andy ZaltzmanCORRESPONDENT
So extraordinary numbers, uh, for him.
Mark ButcherHOST
He went past 100.
Mark ButcherHOST
He's the first bowler since, I think, Ian Botham to, uh, to take 100 test match wickets at an average below 20, and before that was Derek Underwood.
Mark ButcherHOST
So he's in, he's in esteemed company.
Mark ButcherHOST
Um, and so you know, there's very little you can say, um, in complaint about the way England went about their business with the ball.
Geoff LemonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Daniel NorcrossHOST
And look, I don't know, T. O. Wiley may end up being the next Bradman or Botham or Hadley.
Daniel NorcrossHOST
I have no idea.
Daniel NorcrossHOST
There's a very good chance that he won't be, and he would have taken-
Ricky PontingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You have to play with what the venue says you need to do to have success, and I don't think England did that well enough, certainly in Perth, and then that sort of flowed over into Brisbane
Simon HughesHOST
So of course one of England's great Ashes heroes, Ian Botham, was one of our early guests.
Simon HughesHOST
Um, if you're watching this on YouTube, sorry about the, the look of it actually.
Simon HughesHOST
It looked a bit...
Damien FlemingHOST
Oh, wow.
Damien ThomlinsonGUEST
And years ago, like probably 2012 or '13, I met him and Ian Botham at, uh, one of those sportsman's lunches that they have, and I was so excited to tell him the story of how much that ball meant.
Damien FlemingHOST
Yeah.
Damien FlemingHOST
[laughs]
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