It was great to listen to Ian Botham about his mother. Mothers are so happy about their children that they cannot keep the news to themselves. So well said.
@irfansheikh28465 жыл бұрын
Cricketers like him are born in hundred years. Those who don't know him and seen him don't know what they missed. He was a magnet a magician. A mega super duper star . I am from Pakistan but he is my all time favorite cricketer. its player like him that keeps cricket alive. People go to stadium to catch glimpse of guy like him. Thank you SIR for wonderful entertainment you provided to millions of people.
@theradgegadgie63524 жыл бұрын
You shock and surprise me, but in a very pleasant and welcome way. Ian Botham is not the most popular British person to most Pakistanis.
@gregorypalamas49983 жыл бұрын
Dr. Ali Bacher is a natural interviewer. One gets so frustrated with constant interruptions of TV hosts when they keep butting in during an interview. I think it was late Larry King who said “Never interrupt a good story”.
@sudiptabandyopadhyay60412 жыл бұрын
I love respect Iany from my childhood as a great cricketer and a person holding that huge personality on & off the field ... be fit & fine Iany .. God bless ...
@standenberg5 жыл бұрын
Words like 'Legendary' & 'Hero' are all too overused in sport...but Ian Botham is all of these things and more. He's achieved so much on & off the cricket pitch... and he's always good value to listen to his views & recollections etc. Thanks for uploading this gem 👍🏼
@Bernie83304 жыл бұрын
Tell me about it ... so irritating when someone is referred to as a cricket legend or cricket great when they played 20 odd tests in the modern era and averaged 30 and were found out at the highest legend.
@subhamsingh85245 жыл бұрын
Love how they show footage of all the incidents described.
@flash88543 жыл бұрын
Ian Botham is our greatest modern day cricketer. WG Grace is the original and then came Botham. Botham is an icon like WG. Stokes and Flintoff are both very good and have had great moments, however, they never had the impact on England the nation like Botham did. Botham at his best was mercurial. True all-rounder, great bowler, at times a great batsman and always the greaest fielder. Botham is an all time great as a slip fielder. He could do everything.
@vantheman1238 Жыл бұрын
Botham’s five wickets for one run at Edgbaston to win the Test was the greatest bowling I’ve ever seen in a Test Match.
@Asa93-u6c21 күн бұрын
And Botham,s innings at old trafford is the best iver ever seen from an english cricketer in a test match for pure brutality and entertainment.❤
@Lowis19474 жыл бұрын
Proper cricketer and proper bloke. A true legend.
@arunminnas3 жыл бұрын
People forget that in addition to his obvious skills in the batting and bowling departments, he was a superb fielder and nobody talks about that.
@mrkipling22014 жыл бұрын
There’s not many players who have an ashes series named after them. That just shows how good he was. My cricket hero growing up. Also what he did in fundraising for leukemia research and treatment was incredible. The amount of charity walks he did the length and breadth of Britain makes him an all round hero in my eyes.
@ravindersingh41224 жыл бұрын
None can emerge champion like Great Ian Botham. I salute him
@thadtuiol1717 Жыл бұрын
RIP Dr. Ali Bacher. He was a good interviewer.
@cquilty14 ай бұрын
@thadtuiol1717 < < < Silly troll...:)
@AE-Rugby4 жыл бұрын
A legend of this wonderful Sport !!
@chasey23274 ай бұрын
Always stood up to be counted and lived and died by his cricketing instinct. After the dull 2 runs an over dross of the 1970s he was a breath of fresh air in England with his all action style. Had the backbone to stick it to Chappelli which was a bonus.
@martinharvey39905 жыл бұрын
Great interview. Botham was one of my heroes growing up, but that 94% stat he just told us is what he should be remembered for! Wow! He used his celebrity to help the lives of others who probably have no clue who he was... #legend
@vantheman1238 Жыл бұрын
Well said 👍
@yoginion5 жыл бұрын
Awesome interview...!!!
@sayyamzahid5052 жыл бұрын
I live in Karachi Pakistan I like your comments if you don't mind
@assassinsunite34345 жыл бұрын
Their's only one Ian Botham
@brentinnes515111 ай бұрын
He is in my best all time world test team as one of two allrounders batting at 6
@wobblertv8083 Жыл бұрын
Cricket IQ off the charts ...such a clever player .
@devan95852 жыл бұрын
My childhood hero Botham n we loved him much more than any Indian cricketers 💖
@VenkateshNair5 жыл бұрын
Absolute legend
@richardgordon28552 жыл бұрын
He was very good even better when he joined Worcestershire, some good all rounders in that team, but basil dolivera was my favourite just because I liked watching him as a kid.
@drommie5 жыл бұрын
I was at Newlands in 1974 when Brian Close toured South Africa with the Derrick Robins X1- as a 10 year old kid I remember patting him on the back when he was on the way back to the pavilion after gettimng out. He barked " F-off kid" so don't have happy memories of him.
@vantheman12welshman665 жыл бұрын
kellicorrr great story. You should be happy.
@peternagy-im4be3 жыл бұрын
No he didn't.
@peternagy-im4be3 жыл бұрын
I prefer to remember him as a player and a man of action. His books and commentary lack a certain something. He's at his best on the greatest stage.
@markturpin56672 жыл бұрын
The W G Grace of the modern game.
@sufghangametheory995 жыл бұрын
Legend
@sunilkumarkandinapalli28564 жыл бұрын
He is the only cricketer of whom i still love to watch videos. Ball or Bat Dance or Dine.......everything was so splendid. I don't know to how many degrees english crickets stastics will reduce minus the career of the great SIR IAN BOTHAM.
@peternagy-im4be3 жыл бұрын
Mr Iron Bottom
@reggieguiseguise29532 жыл бұрын
botham the man
@darylcrosland Жыл бұрын
impossible to omit sir 'Beefy' from a world 11 team even in this modern era.
@brentinnes515111 ай бұрын
no 6
@Graham-qz1sh10 ай бұрын
Best commentator ever Tony Grieg
@chasey23274 ай бұрын
'He's murdering Hughes' - Greigy after Both smoked 26 off an over in 1986 Ashes
@NageshKV-r4t Жыл бұрын
He was like a Lionel Messi of cricket
@hughfranklin40023 жыл бұрын
Not all super heroes wear capes.
@cquilty14 ай бұрын
@hughfranklin4002 That was original...
@abhaspandia22215 жыл бұрын
please bring indian cricketers too
@BlueSkiesAbove394 жыл бұрын
Why? They are very poor cricketers in comparison.
@peternagy-im4be3 жыл бұрын
Moaners
@invernessfan30172 жыл бұрын
Botham is well known in cricket circles. He is famous for playing for England against Australia in the Ashes. I know cricket is popular in Australia, England, India and Pakistan. I think cricket should grow. I think that Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man should copy the West Indies and have a composite international side. A Celtic Nations side could play teams like Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, and England. A Celtic Nations International side would cover a region of 20 million people and could grow cricket.
@syedmehdi4972 жыл бұрын
Ian Botham was good player in the beginning of his career,he put on lots of weight and he lost his outswinger later in his career but was a better Batsman than blower. Overall he was an average Allrounder compared to Imran Khan & Kapil Dev.
@boymeetsbush82322 жыл бұрын
Average compared to Imran and Kapil? Really You just heard 5 times 5 wickets and more and a century. How many did Imran and Kapil have combined. Not to mention he own moree test on his own that Imran, Kapil and Richard Headley combined
@nikunjsar5 жыл бұрын
Bald sent me here
@mazharhussain79835 жыл бұрын
Beefy best all rounder
@johnedwards78992 жыл бұрын
The way England treated Botham was shameful, stupid and short sighted He was a great, great player, a true champion. Handed the captaincy far too early, expecting him to still be a great all rounder and a great captain too. How ridiculous. As an Aussie, I regarded Botham as one of the all time greats, and I wished he played for us. I always believe it was a disgrace the way he was treated and I always thought that the powers that be were completely stupid. They still display the same stupidity today.
@mrkipling22013 жыл бұрын
21:17 what a way to go to a 6?? A hundred you mean mate!!
@vantheman1238 Жыл бұрын
Hey don’t criticise Jim Laker. We all know what the great man meant. Anyway is was a wonderful way to go to a six.
@krishnar34935 жыл бұрын
Come on , Ian. Still hard feelings on Roebuck
@mrkipling22013 жыл бұрын
Loyalty to his mates I would think.
@GeorgetheArchitect4 жыл бұрын
“Not the man from Sri Lanka?” Really Ali Bacher, WTF?
@naeemahmed55993 жыл бұрын
HSV. Cricket. Hamburg
@sayyamzahid5052 жыл бұрын
Belo
@oliverdesvaux4 жыл бұрын
31:22 HAHA what a fantastic story!
@RealistVK2 жыл бұрын
No matter how magnificently you played at some occasions (rare in 16+ year long career) Ian Botham ! You can't stand against Ian Chappell's knowledge, clarity & mental strength. He is an institution and you were just a cricket freak. There is big difference
@anwarahmed71234 ай бұрын
Did he suffer from Leukemia
@theradgegadgie63524 жыл бұрын
Beef, the rest of the world calls it football, too. It's only the septics and upper-class Brits (who say football to mean rugby) who call it soccer.
@mrkipling22014 жыл бұрын
Americans call it soccer. Beefy certainly isn’t upper class!!
@theradgegadgie63524 жыл бұрын
@@mrkipling2201 Well, he is now. He's a bleeding lord. "Septics" means Americans. It's cockney rhyming-slang.
@mrkipling22014 жыл бұрын
Septic tank-yank. They’re having a bubble calling it soccer!!
@mrkipling22014 жыл бұрын
@@theradgegadgie6352 plus they ain’t got a scooby over there.
@theradgegadgie63524 жыл бұрын
@@mrkipling2201 A bubble? Bubble & squeak = Greek.
@skint266 ай бұрын
average cricket and a bully
@bobbythomas53575 жыл бұрын
Never understand what was so great about him. Viv was a great. Being friends with the greatest doesn’t make you one by osmosis.
@martinharvey39905 жыл бұрын
Clown... nothing more needs to be said.
@shamirpatel35695 жыл бұрын
Wtf, the man was great in literally every aspect as a sportsman and as someone that average man could identify with.
@standenberg5 жыл бұрын
Bobby Thomas....I'll tell you what was great about Ian Botham....he inspired many Working-Class people from the UK to have passion for the game of cricket, in a country that traditionally has a love affair with other sports (mainly Football, Rugby & Boxing). He was a born winner who could single-handedly dictate the outcome of matches with his batting, bowling and even his catching. If you don't like him, that's your call...but his record is there for all to see & anyone around in the 1980's will testify he wasn't just one of the best cricketers, he was one of the best sportsmen to dominate that decade. I saw him play many times & he always gave 200% even in County Cricket. He was always the player the opposition feared the most....enough said!!
@Bernie83305 жыл бұрын
@@standenberg yes, apparently, Viv Richards told Botham years later, that in england v wi tests, Botham was always the one they wanted out of the firing line ... the west indies bowlers all played county cricket and they had seen first hand what Botham could do as a batsman. Richards went on to tell Botham that he was discussed at length in pre test match team meetings more than any batsman in the world, let alone England batsmen ... quite a compliment, and it had to at least some sort of comfort for Botham himself in never scoring a century against the west indies.
@Bellocks15 жыл бұрын
Looking at it objectively, the end part of his career was terrible compared to his first half. His appetite for alcohol and drugs dulled his talent as time went on, but that’s what the British public love, a character. Same with Flintoff. And I’m British saying that. If Beefy would’ve carried on the same trail as he did at the start of his career, put the pints and weed down, he would’ve been an all time great.
@hudson73542 жыл бұрын
And now he’s a silly brexiteer, even though he doesn’t appear to have a clue about politics.