Described by Richie Benaud as the greatest Test match ever played, and the game where the legend of Ian Botham started, the Test of Headingley 1981 occupies a special position in the Ashes folklore.

What an amazing two days of Test cricket. It never ceases to surprise ... It is the ultimate, and already over these first two days of the Ashes it has brought us some incredible action.

Single Tests are often dubbed after players, but the 1981 series has gone down in history as "Botham's Ashes". The drama started at Headingley ... It was the second time in the history of Test cricket ...

Since the inaugural Ashes series in 1883, the cricket world has seen some of the ... badly beaten in the first two Ashes Tests, Ian Botham showed why England needed him in the third Test ...