I loved watching Ian Botham. I voted for him when he won sports personality of the year 1981. Ian was terrific.

Had the pleasure and privilege of having a pint with this legend at Darlington golf club in the late nineties while he was playing for Durham. He is a top bloke in every sense.

Beefy transcended Cricket in England. He was the David Beckham of his time. I think people forget just how popular he was. Brilliant player and there's just something special about seeing players without Helmets. Balls of Brass in those days.

@Wally-H

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, he did wear one sometimes later in his career but only against the quickest seamers. He was always more comfortable without it.

@brizzyoz2462

5 күн бұрын

Nothing like Beckham... Botham was world class not just good.

Amazing crowd at the WACA. I think even Botham was surprised at the reception he got coming off. One of the all time truly great sportsmen.

I lived in AUSTRALIA it's great and emotional to see then standing to applaude Ian Botham off

Excellent hitting by Botham. WACA was one of the biggest cricket grounds one would have seen

I was 16 1/2 YTS trainee at the time and remember it well, especially the coloured clothing. Beefy was my hero, hitting those massive sixes!

@miteshchauhan2819

Жыл бұрын

Now you completed your fifty 😜😜

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I am now 52 (celebrated my fiftieth two years ago during the Covid lockdown!)

Ah those were the good old days when beefy was smashing that ball around. Cricket was so exciting back then and a lot of great players on all the international sides. West Indies were a joy to watch. Richards, Marshal, Garner, Lloyd, Richardson, to name a few.

Bill Lawry i miss you so much. I remember going to my first test match as a kid back in 2006 miss his voice:(

@cricketlaunch2405

2 жыл бұрын

Yes my favorite

@hyena131

2 жыл бұрын

Andrew Wilkins lawry has a very silly high voice and uttered the tritest of platitudes when he used to commentate. Thank fukkcc he retired.

@irfanbardgujar8612

Жыл бұрын

@@hyena131 I am also Miss this three legend

Beefy the legend. No helmet, with the old bats.

An icon. Can you imagine how hard Botham would hit the ball, with modern bats, and modern fitness regimes 🤣

@cquilty1

Жыл бұрын

@Planet of the Deaf Ha! You'd have to convince Botham 1st to embrace modern fitness regimes - or any kind of fitness regime. Good luck with that:)

@jimb9063

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Raw power. Different technique these days, but I imagine he'd have been at the forefront of working out how to adapt to T-20 had he been playing. 68 off 39 is good now, back then it was ridiculous. Over 250 was a pretty good score in 50 overs back then too!

@stuartgold3602

Жыл бұрын

and modern short boundaries.

@macman975

Жыл бұрын

Beefy playing hook shots with no helmet on is absolutely iconic :)

@chefblanc

Жыл бұрын

@@cquilty1 probably adapted with the times.. just as they did from the previous era..

*IAN BOTHAM WAS A GOOD BATSMAN* ✌🇮🇳❤

Best all rounder ever to play for England!

@brendanroberts4866

Жыл бұрын

yes - have to agree. We are lucky these days too with Stokes etc - it will be a while before it gets this good again

@Wally-H

11 ай бұрын

Actually statistically, it's close between Beefy and Stokes now. Botham was the better bowler by far, but Stokes the better batsman. In-between these types of heroic innings, Botham actually had quite a lot of failures and his batting averages weren't great and certainly nowhere near as good as Stokes.

@CJArnold-hq3ey

10 ай бұрын

As a Aussie I'd have him in my tesm

@mark.lawrence

10 ай бұрын

ben stokes.

@alanobrien1696

10 ай бұрын

Do you mean Gatting?

The same day on my 16th birthday - I too scored 52 runs not out in a local.match. great memories

Totally agree that Botham at his best was the greatest all rounder of all time. No one had his presence when batting or bowling. He was truly different class. He provided all-time great bowling performances and batting performances when it was needed time and time again in that era Single-handedly winning games for England. At his best he is unsurpassed.

@ghplayer1992

Жыл бұрын

no imran khan was

@davidbrooks187

Жыл бұрын

@@ghplayer1992 Not according to the ICC world rankings he wasn’t.

@ghplayer1992

Жыл бұрын

@@davidbrooks187 it doesn't matter when the world says he is and was also in icc rankings to no.1 for a long long time no fight i love beefy to but Imran khan was the real deal back t hen

@TotalImpacteSportsNetwork

Жыл бұрын

@@ghplayer1992 Beefy at his best was incomparable.....either bat or ball, he blew teams away, ask any captain who was the one opposition player they feared could change a match during the late 70's & 80's it was either Viv Richards or Beefy. Statistics are rendered meaningless, it was his ability to change matches....Imran was a great cricketer and had probably better stats but he didnt change the course of games like Beefy

@davidbrooks187

Жыл бұрын

@Shabda Sound Botham & Sobers definitely the two greatest all-rounders ever. Different eras, both very complimentary of each other.

He was the Street Fighter in a cricket field.

Ian Botham,greatest all rounder of all time,it will be a long,long time before any one will come anywhere near him,if at all...!!

@toonarmy8524

Жыл бұрын

Ben Stokes is heading that way

@mrstamp5121

Жыл бұрын

Freddie ffs!

@henguspod3899

Жыл бұрын

dont forget gary sobers

@joedennehy386

Жыл бұрын

Gary sobers, and jaque Kallis think differently

@toonarmy8524

Жыл бұрын

@@joedennehy386 they can think differently all they want they were great players no doubt. Botham owns them hands down if you think otherwise you dont know cricket.

Botham would turn the table single handedly.

Can never forget Botham's ashes and Bob Willis's legendary spell ❤❤❤❤❤

Perth Challenge in 86/87. It was a competition held in tandem with the Americas Cup held in Australia for the first time.

Duncan Fearnley!!! Great bats 🏏 good hitting Botham!&@@ luv from New Zealand 🇳🇿

Reid with that angle and the extra bounce undid Lamb. Great Knock Sir Ian.

Simon Davis couldn't have put the ball more in the slot if he tried. Botham was a machine

@simonhill1590

Жыл бұрын

who is Simon Davis?

@anonymousilluminati5717

Жыл бұрын

@@simonhill1590 🤣 A daft Aussie bowler at the time. Go Google it, stupid. No wonder that you're so daft‼️.. The bloke was the one who got smashed by Beefy head in this match. Beefy destroyed Davis's economy rate from his previous season against India in Oz during the 1986/87 WSC.

Imagine him in today’s T20 set up.

@Wally-H

11 ай бұрын

Botham's old Somerset side, with Viv Richards and Joel Garner, would have been pure box office at 20/20.

@ianreynolds9733

11 ай бұрын

@@Wally-H absolutely!

@hashirsiddiqui4227

5 ай бұрын

Imran Khan's Charisma And Personality In Today's Era Then Imran Khan ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Now Pat Cumminz ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Good to see, thanks. would be nice to see more of the game. Looked like a good innings from Lamb too.

@johnarch6876

11 ай бұрын

Raised in Cape Town.

Wonderful batting ian Botham

A truly great, charismatic sportsman.

One of the best cricketers of yore years despite his dependence on inhaler due to his asthmatic problem.

Will never forget simom davis getting hammered and bill saying what a hit what an over

He did this in the days where the fields weren't roped off as much and the bats were lighter

@scottfletcher9134

Жыл бұрын

Usual standard comment from a member of the 'It was so much better in my day' brigade. The game evolves. players like Buttler and Stokes would have been successful in Botham's era as well

@paulb5680

Жыл бұрын

@@scottfletcher9134 I didn’t say that the players of today aren’t as good as those from the past. The players today are brilliant and hit some amazing shots. I was just making the point that Botham hit the ball that far with a thinner bat with bigger boundaries. Today’s players would probably do the same thing in that era but he was amazing for his time.

@markwakeman6282

Жыл бұрын

@@paulb5680 Beefy used a big hefty bat so if they are even bigger now it would be scary what he would do. Likewise Viv Richards in T20 would have been total carnage

@danielmartinbowen3844

11 ай бұрын

Actually he used a 3lb bat. Most of todays players use much lighter bats, but because the bats haven't been 'pressed' they look just as big as the one he used plus they have a bigger sweet spot as well.

@Wally-H

11 ай бұрын

That's the biggest difference these days - the ball can fly over the ropes if you miss-time it and don't get it in the middle. In Botham's day you had to middle it@@danielmartinbowen3844

One of the best and most popular cricketing all-rounder

Magnificent batting masterclass from Beefy. I dare say that there was some smoke coming out of that Duncan Fearnley when the innings finished. Fantastic shirts too.

I was in Perth at the time visiting relatives. Didn't make it to the ground, but knew it was on. I was even given a hat by my uncle (Though it was an Aussie one! couldn't bring myself to wear it). I remember my dad going down to Perth harbour to try and watch some of the Americas cup that was also on at the time. Dunno how much he could see. I wasn't remotely interested in sailing. I do remember getting really sunburnt on that trip, and also having some of that pink total sun block put on my nose and it taking about 3 days of scrubbing to get it off!!

Another Brilliant Upload Keep It Up

Cricket is today because of players like Botham and Richards.

Good old days ❤️❤️❤️❤️

The best there will no one like him again ever

My childhood Hero.

Legendary Botham

Greatest English allrounder the world will ever see

Haven't things changed since 1987 - 27,000 at the WACA - now only holds around 10,000 and they are struggling to get 15,000 to watch one day cricket at a 60,000 seat stadium.

Best all rounder ever to play for England.

Without helmet on aussi pace attack unbelievable one of the best💯

@AnkitSingh-xl6pt

2 жыл бұрын

You should watch Beefy smacking Lillee for multiple sixes in his century during Botham's Ashes, again without a helmet.

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

@@AnkitSingh-xl6pt I was eleven at that time and had just left junior school!

@AnkitSingh-xl6pt

Жыл бұрын

@@angelacooper2661 Probably you saw it in that case. And more importantly, enjoyed the euphoria.

Ah the good old days of proper one dayers, when everyone had a good team. I dont know how many times it used to go down to the last over or the last ball. Brilliant stuff. Obviously i dont bother watching today, not even close for excitement and entertainment.

Can we please have another Perth Challenge, it would suit us a lot because we probably won’t have any restrictions by summer

@AnalogTVMainChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@zach gavelton and it is a shame Perth hasn’t had any international cricket since 2019

@AnalogTVMainChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@zach gavelton it certainly is a Great ground

@Ingens_Scherz

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnalogTVMainChannel Yeah, unique in the world really. Or was!

@sovietonion72

Жыл бұрын

@@AnalogTVMainChannel Was a great ground, even after the renovations are complete it won't have that waca charm.

Botham is beauty of cricket still . Unfortunately he did not come Asia

Bruce Reid was a beer and burger boy. He worked with a sporting trainer called Websdsle who also helped Steve Waugh. He said of Reid "I couldn't get through to him".

Innings like this a 10 a penny nowadays but not back in 1987. Botham, Richards etc set the bar

Beefy seemed to have been quite popular down under?

@silentdogfart4892

2 жыл бұрын

Very!

@saganspirit

Жыл бұрын

Played for Queensland for a few seasons down there

@garypotts7120

Жыл бұрын

He was brilliant

Played today's T20 innings in 86-87 itself.

back in days cricket was more fun

Botham Kapil dev and Imran Khan were perfect defination of allrounders

@ScratchyBaws

4 күн бұрын

Khan the guy who liked tampering with a cricket ball.

Sir ian botham was the second most successful alrounder after the great andrew flintoff of england.

Great player ian I see highlights India england test mach 1982 83 series in England 2 hundred great battling agrresive batting great player

Fantastic hitting back then, ho hum now.

And look how thin his bat was! Imagine how good he would have been with todays tech!

@andrew7440

Жыл бұрын

Those old Fearnley bats were and still are superb. I've got a couple of the Old Magnums they are excellent, and a Graeme Hick 405. Just need a decent Botham Attack.

1987: That shot isn’t in the coaching manual 2022: Hold my beer…

Top cricketer and man is Beefy 🏆

Lovely Cricket All round ...!

Allrounder 💪👍👌😃 not only very 1st played with steel batting 😃👌

Botham is up here with the very best

I love the way Bill says Bruce Reid's name "Brews Rood"

Not only Richards but Botham too used to play without helmet quite often.

Simon Davis tormented India in 86 who gave him too much respect. Finally beefy showed what an ordinary bowler he was.

Australia had their day with lille Now England's turn with botham!

Botham Haydlee Viv Richards And Imran Khan ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ !!!! Best Of The Best ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!!!!

You can see how much better bats are today. He really had to belt those balls to get six. These days a thick edge goes for six.

Imagine a middle order of ... 4. Pieterson 5. Stokes 6. Botham. 7. Flintoff

He put bums on seats, i can't think of one player today i would pay to see.

❤L❤E❤G❤E❤N❤D Sir Ian Botham.

Imagine if t20 was invented then how crazy would imran khan ,botham,hadlee,border the classic wendies player would have been and the commercial value this big players would have brought like miadad,asif iqbal,kapil dev,gavasker etc

His hair style,body language ,approach ,nice to watch him playing like a Hero.I think this hair style was copied by Abdul Qadir, wasim & some more Pakistani players.Ofcourse Botham was all time favourite cricketer of late legendary leg spinner Qadir.

could never understand the lack of a boundary rope in Aus

Good enough to be Australian. 😉

Oh yes !! Remember it well watching live here in 🇬🇧 England wiped the floor that summer with Aussie ( ashes) Wsc And Perth challenge cup Happy days

A superman on a super day, it's bothom

Botham, Lamb , Gatting we had some talent then ! Botham batting with no helmet! Could not see that happening today.

Chapel never had an ovation like this off an Australian crowd

BEEFY. Englands greatest ever cricketer. End of

Memories

Huge Six

Those were the days!!

Imagine this with a modern day bat!!

‘this is a batting exhibition 0f a top order…’

0:54 Bill goes full 'twelfth man' and big Maxy gets in on the act. It's a shame he wasn't a Victorian!!

@itookallthenames

Жыл бұрын

Get him up here!

How the thwack sound when he hits the ball. Don't seem to hear it like that these days. It's either the bats or the microphones I guess.

What’s with the boundary rope brought in so far?!

@AussieTVMusic

Жыл бұрын

It's an oval

Poor Ian, he’s advertising how clapped out his legs are now

@simonhill1590

Жыл бұрын

sad to see, right!

@copferthat

Жыл бұрын

@@simonhill1590 Well not really, as an old git miself It's understandable. as he's hardly in a position to advertise 'stick with it all night? erection pills, now is he? Going back to the late 70's onward I had a very bad accident which confined to home for months. The tele in those days was a joke and when I switched it on, horror of horrors, it was cricket, but I watched it anyway, no choice. and a fella arrived at the crease and blasted a quick century before dinner and I remember thinking, I could get to like this sport. That man was Botham. a fully deserved national hero.

Genius.

Duncan Fearnley must have loved him.

Early nineties I meant.

Beefy at his best!

Beefy would tear things up in the IPL

@vickyvirk4424

9 ай бұрын

He would more likely fight with an owner of an Ipl team and be banned

I don't even talking about I love you.

My cousin had trials for Fast bowler in the 80's but couldn't quite do it and shoulder injuries finished it.

He s the man along with viv richards dean jones to . Best 3 ever

Maverick

Was there

❤

England were very good those days. Oz were a poor team but won the WC later in the year.