Life is very rarely dull or quiet when Sir Ian Botham is around. One of Britain's greatest sportsmen, 'Beefy' has always worked hard and played hard, and this book reflects that. Botham has compiled some of his favourite stories from a life devoted to cricket and brought them all together in one volume. With the help of his huge network of friends, colleagues, team-mates and opponents, he has put together a wonderful collection of the best and the funniest stories from the cricket world.
Featuring contributions from legends such as Shane Warne, fellow commentators and former team-mates including David Gower, and many of the current England team, this is a book the reader can pick up and immediately be privy to some of cricket's strangest and most hilarious moments, from the player who turned up to a game without any clothes on to avoid being fined for wearing the wrong kit to the cricketing legend whose desire for a burger landed him in hot water.
- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Foreword
- Contents
- Introduction
- Michael Atherton – Stand up for yourself
- Rob Bailey – You win some, you lose some
- Tim Bresnan – The Yorkshire snipper
- Chris Broad – Very superstitious
- Don’t mess with Viv
- Dougie Brown – Pausing for dim thought
- Mark Butcher – Sledge to make you laugh
- Paul Collingwood – Armed and dangerous
- Dominic Cork – Taking charge
- Robert Croft – Wales red through and through
- Phil DeFreitas – Prankster extraordinaire
- Digging up a Pring in the car park
- John Etheridge – Hacking round the golf course
- Steven Finn – Impressing the boss
- Matthew Fleming – Ship shape and Bristol fashion
- Graeme Fowler – Alert as a fox
- Kitting out the wife
- Angus Fraser – Watch out, Fraser’s about
- Sourav Ganguly – Troubles in England
- Sunil Gavaskar – Better the joke’s not on you
- Ashley Giles – The touring life for me
- Fred the Enforcer
- Graham Gooch – What a way to get out
- David Gower – Watch what you eat
- Michael Holding – From foe to friend
- Adam Hollioake – Spar a thought
- Like father like son
- Simon Hughes – Hot tub action
- Nasser Hussain – Working with coaches
- Mark Ilott – Going toe-to-toe
- Ronnie Irani – Stretching the Aussies
- Steve James – Fine dining
- Robert Key – Finding Murali
- Nick Knight – Taking the mic
- Allan Lamb – Northampton’s finest
- Better than Ambrose and Walsh
- David Lloyd – Thinking outside the box
- Geoff Miller – The Entertainer
- Eoin Morgan – Long train running
- Hugh Morris – Bowling like the wind from the Windies
- Fit for purpose
- Paul Nixon – Dressing-room argy-bargy
- Shaun Pollock – Runners and riders
- Derek Pringle – Putting a name to a face
- Matt Prior – You’ve got to accentuate the positives
- David Saker – Even heroes have heroes
- Dodgy guts
- Chris Schofield – Better than average
- Gladstone Small – Dressing-room hierarchy
- Jeremy Snape – Getting the blood pumping
- Alec Stewart – Anger management
- Rise and shine
- Andrew Strauss – Someone call security
- Alex Tudor – Would you like a flake with that?
- Phil Tufnell – Taking aim
- Shaun Udal – Overseas magic
- Michael Vaughan – Use your loaf
- Ian Ward – Good-looking fines
- Shane Warne – Something smells good
- Bob Willis – Botham the manchild
- Dean Wilson – Cars
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