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Examples
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Nowhere was this more apparent than in the famous series exactly 30 years ago that became known as Botham's Ashes.
Tendulkar or Talksport: July's ultimate Test | Martin Kelner 2011
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"I remember Pup came back into the sheds and said, 'Botham's called you a cheat'," Hughes recalled.
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A magnificent all-rounder, had it not been for the boycott of South Africa he would surely have had a test career to rank alongside other great all-rounders of the 70s such as Botham, Imran, and Kapil Dev.
Word Magazine - Comments Almost Simon 2010
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A magnificent all-rounder, had it not been for the boycott of South Africa he would surely have had a test career to rank alongside other great all-rounders of the 70s such as Botham, Imran, and Kapil Dev.
Word Magazine - Comments Almost Simon 2010
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A magnificent all-rounder, had it not been for the boycott of South Africa he would surely have had a test career to rank alongside other great all-rounders of the 70s such as Botham, Imran, and Kapil Dev.
Word Magazine - Comments Almost Simon 2010
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A magnificent all-rounder, had it not been for the boycott of South Africa he would surely have had a test career to rank alongside other great all-rounders of the 70s such as Botham, Imran, and Kapil Dev.
Word Magazine - Comments Almost Simon 2010
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Such was his starring role during the 1981 series, it is now widely known as 'Botham's Ashes'.
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For England fans there was the moment in the late 1980s when Ian Botham's paunch finally began to outweigh the counter-heft of his empowering backside, creating an insurmountable weight imbalance at the bowling crease, addressed with varying success in the twilight of Botham's career via compensatory rear mullet growth and minute calibrations of moustache.
Colonial promiscuity in danger of diluting test cricket's pleasures | Barney Ronay 2011
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But I can't bring myself to sling them out, because Ian Botham was one of my many parallel lives.
TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens 2011
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Ian Botham hooks a ball from Geoff Lawson during the Headingley Test in 1981.
TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens 2011
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