Living it up! Ian Botham always did things his way
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Ian Botham was in his sixth year as an England super star when I first played international cricket with him. We had locked horns before in Essex v Somerset encounters, meetings that had engendered some antipathy. But we got on better once we were on the same side, both of us treating cricket, as well as life, as an adventure.
People forget now but between 1981 and 1987, before Botham took a break to have an operation on his back, he was the most famous sportsman in Britain. When Nike advertised a new football boot ...