Originally published in 2000 and now available as an ebook. The bestselling autobiography of cricketing legend Ian Botham, includes his first-hand insight into the 1999/2000 winter tour to South Africa.Ian Botham’s bestselling autobiography is an intriguing cocktail of sex and drugs allegations, personal upheavals, confrontations with his peers, and remarkable achievements both on and off the field.From his heroic deeds against the Aussies art Headingly in 1981 through to the dark clouds surrounding the court case with Imran Khan, from battling in the mud for Scunthorpe United FC to walking half the length of the country for Leukaemia Research, it’s all here in this unforgettable story of a truly larger-than-life character.In an extra chapter for this revised edition, Botham digs deep to unravel the reasons behind the sorry state of English cricket, and provides a compulsive insight into the 1999/2000 winter tour to South Africa where England attempt to recover from a traumatic year under the new leadership of Nasser Hussain.
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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.
