Famous Cricketers No 83 - Ian Botham

c J.A.Maclean b J.D.Higgs 10 179 15 4 41 3 G.M.Wood b 167 1 K.J.Hughes c D.I.Gower R.M.Hogg b 110. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Sydney, January 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 (England won by 93 runs) c G.N.Yallop b R.M.Hogg 59 152 28 3 87 2 P.M.Toohey c G.A.Gooch 294 3 G.Dymock b c G.M.Wood b J.D.Higgs 6 346 - - - - 111 2 111. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Adelaide, January 27, 28, 29, 31, February 1 (England won by 205 runs) c K.J.Wright b J.D.Higgs 74 169 11.4 0 42 4 W.M.Darling c R.G.D.Willis 164 A.R.Border c R.W.Taylor P.H.Carlson c R.W.Taylor B.Yardley b c B.Yardley b A.G.Hurst 7 360 14 4 37 1 W.M.Darling b 160 112. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Sydney, February 10, 11, 12, 14 (England won by nine wickets) c P.H.Carlson b B.Yardley 23 308 9.7 1 57 4 G.N.Yallop c D.I.Gower 198 2 P.M.Toohey c R.W.Taylor P.H.Carlson c G.A.Gooch A.G.Hurst b did not bat - 35-1 - - - - 143 2 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 6 10 0 291 74 29.10 - 2 11 Other matches 3 4 0 70 56 17.50 - 1 3 Tour 9 14 0 361 74 25.78 - 3 14 Career 112 173 19 4081 167* 26.50 6 19 96 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test matches 158.4 25 567 23 4/42 24.65 - - 55.13 44.71 Other matches 80.7 19 281 21 5/51 13.38 2 - 30.80 43.43 Tour (8 ball) 239.3 44 848 44 5/51 19.27 2 - 43.52 44.28 Career (6 ball) 2731.2 596 } 9485 425 8/34 22.31 27 4 47.02 47.45 (8 ball) 449.7 85 1979 The second World Cup competition limited Botham’s first-class appearances to fifteen in 1979. He played twenty innings scoring 731 runs at an average of 38.47 and taking forty-six wickets at 28.65. He played a memorable innings in the Test at Headingley against India hitting five 6’s and sixteen 4’s in scoring 137 runs from just 152 balls faced. In handing him the Man of the Match trophy, the adjudicator, J.C.Laker, described it as “one of the finest Test innings of the last twenty years”. Not out nine overnight, Botham had reached 108 by lunch the next day. One more run would have given him the first century scored for England in a pre-lunch session since 1935. He played another explosive innings at Swansea against Glamorgan, his 120 including seven 6’s and twelve 4’s. He took five wickets twice in Test innings against India but his best figures were for Somerset against Surrey at Taunton when he took six for 81 in what Wisden describes as a “remarkably well-sustained burst” on a good wicket. He held twenty-one catches, ten of them in the Test series. In the Lord’s Test he took his 100th Test wicket, S.M.Gavaskar, in the fastest time ever of 2 years and 9 days. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 113. Somerset v Worcestershire, Worcester, May 2, 3, 4 (Match drawn) c E.J.O.Hemsley b A.P.Pridgeon 44 330-8d 3 0 14 0 300-7d 114. Somerset v Northamptonshire, Taunton, May 9, 11 (Somerset won by ten wickets) c G.Sharp b Sarfraz Nawaz 18 251-7d 16 4 60 4 G.Cook b 129 2 I.M.Richards c P.M.Roebuck Sarfraz Nawaz c M.J.Kitchen T.M.Lamb b did not bat - 1-0 9 5 20 0 122 1 19