Botham: My Autobiography

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Ian Botham. Botham: My Autobiography

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THE BEST OF ENGLAND. GEOFFREY BOYCOTT

GRAHAM GOOCH

MIKE BREARLEY (capt.)

DAVID GOWER

ALLAN LAMB

ROBIN SMITH

IAN BOTHAM

ALAN KNOTT (wicket-keeper)

JOHN EMBUREY

DEREK UNDERWOOD

ANGUS FRASER

GRAHAM DILLEY

BOB WILLIS

BEST OF THE WORLD. SUNIL GAVASKAR

GORDON GREENIDGE

VIVIAN RICHARDS

GREG CHAPPELL

JAVED MIANDAD

ALLAN BORDER

CLIVE LLOYD (capt.)

RODNEY MARSH (wicket-keeper)

RICHARD HADLEE

CURTLY AMBROSE

JOEL GARNER

DENNIS LILLEE

ABDUL QADIR

THE FAMILY

MENTORS

LORD’S GROUNDSTAFF

THE AUSSIES

CRICKET SELECTORS

COUNTY CRICKETERS

ENGLAND CRICKETERS

LEUKAEMIA WALKERS

… AND OTHERS

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MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

with Peter Hayter

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Once I discovered where I stood, I started to think about Durham. I wanted to be sure in my own mind that I was doing the right thing by them.

To be totally honest, there was no point in my playing any more championship cricket because we were near the bottom of the table and the county needed to rebuild. Although I had proved to myself that I could still perform with the bat by scoring a century against Worcestershire, my last match had ended with a two-day defeat by Surrey at The Oval. I had batted twice on the second day, faced eight balls, and made eight runs. We lost by an innings and more than 200 runs. I knew I was not going to be around for the following season and started to think about retirement in a positive way. At Durham there were four or five players whose contracts were on the line, and it was not fair that I should take up a place in the team while they were in limbo and likely to have only a handful of games in which to prove their worth.

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