D/L wrote:Several of these options are/were better bowlers than Botham.
we tend to forget that quite a few of the world's best batsmen were playing for Packer when Botham took many of his wickets.
Any road up, Gough, Caddick, Anderson, Hoggard.
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Aidan11 wrote:D/L wrote:Several of these options are/were better bowlers than Botham.
we tend to forget that quite a few of the world's best batsmen were playing for Packer when Botham took many of his wickets.
Any road up, Gough, Caddick, Anderson, Hoggard.
No they weren't. Botham made his test debut in the same season when it all kicked off with Packer. Within three years most of those players were back. Botham hadn't even had his Headingley moment by then.
D/L wrote:Aidan11 wrote:D/L wrote:Several of these options are/were better bowlers than Botham.
we tend to forget that quite a few of the world's best batsmen were playing for Packer when Botham took many of his wickets.
Any road up, Gough, Caddick, Anderson, Hoggard.
No they weren't. Botham made his test debut in the same season when it all kicked off with Packer. Within three years most of those players were back. Botham hadn't even had his Headingley moment by then.
Three years when he wasn't up against the best in the world then.
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