Cricket: De Villiers goes in to bat for Oz as Botham scoffs

Ian Botham hooks the ball for another boundary on his way to 138 against Australia in the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in November

Sir Ian with Kumar Sangakkaa, one of the trustees of the charity. Former England Captain and Ashes hero, Sir Ian Botham, will take part in a charity walk in Sri Lanka over eight days to raise funds for the Foundation of Goodness, of which Sri ...

Former England captain Sir Ian Botham claims the venue is so irrelevant that England would even "beat Australia on Mars", such is their current superiority over their old rivals. England have held the urn since 2009 and Botham has no doubt Alastair Cook's men ...

London, June 12 (ANI): Former England Test captain Sir Ian Botham has said that the team's batsmen will need to make their time at the crease count more decisively than they managed against Australia if they want to progress in the ICC Champions ...

Sydney, June 12 (ANI): Former Australian captain Allan Border has said that he would 'piggyback Sir Ian 'Beefy' Botham around Piccadilly Circus if England beat Australia 5-0 in the Ashes. Border has responded to mocking predictions from Botham and ...

Jos Buttler's batting pyrotechnics should strike fear into opposing teams in the ICC Champions Trophy, says Sir Ian Botham. Buttler struck 47no off 16 balls with six fours and three sixes to put England on course for a consolation 34-run win in the ...

There are very few people who have influenced cricket's greatest rivalry as much as Ian Botham. Beefy ... the great man sported an even greater mullet during the 1986-87 Ashes series. Source: Peter Ford / News Limited There are very few people who ...

Sir Ian Botham has cranked up the heat on Australia's cricketers by claiming their chances of regaining the Ashes this summer 'are zero'. The former England all-rounder also believes that England - who travel down under this winter for another ...

London - This has been a momentous week for Sir Ian Botham. Not on account of anything that has unfolded in the world of cricket, but because, rooting around in his mother's attic, he rediscovered Mr Khrushchev, the teddy bear that, in Fifties ...