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.

The Wisden Cricketer has 10 copies of `Botham's Ashes - The Miracle of Headingley ... How many runs did Botham score in the whole of the Headingley Test? 3. Which England bowler took 8 for ...

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.

The man who coined the term 'mental disintegration' led a team of modern-day greats with unflinching ruthlessness - once batting on one leg to score ... Ashes cricket." Voting breakdown: I Botham ...

Botham is tipping England to score an "emphatic" first away Ashes series win in more than ... In his column in the Daily Mirror, the English cricket legend accused Australian selectors of "muddled ...

England cricket great Ian Botham has sold off more than 200 souvenirs from his career at a London auction, with items from his celebrated role in a 1981 Ashes triumph among the most highly-valued ...

The Ashes has gripped ... to Geoff Miller - again off Botham - and Miller taking it to earn England a dramatic victory in the Melbourne Test of 1982. Being the sad cricket geek that I was I ...

It doesn’t get any better than beating the Australians inside three days to win back the Ashes and enjoying the ... while the batsmen have tried to score runs instead of survive.

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 ...