10 Cricketers who played other sport
These cricketers were multi-talented and shone for their country in different sport as well.
3. Sir Ian Botham – Football
Sir Ian Botham is renowned as one of the greatest all-rounders the game has ever seen. Over 5000 runs and 383 Test wickets account for his prodigious legacy. The right-hander became the first man to achieve a ‘double’ of scoring a century and picking a 10-wicket haul in the same Test match. His herculean efforts in the 1981 Ashes still resonates among the cricket fraternity.
Not only he was a great cricketer but also a talented footballer. Botham played football in school but chose cricket for a full-time career. Later, Botham made professional appearances as a centre-half from 1978 to 1985 for Yeovil Town and Scunthorpe United. He played 11 games in the English Football League for Scunthorpe United. With Yeovil, Botham appeared for the Football Association XI during the 1984/85 season.
He has turned a commentator but keeps himself involved in other sports like Golf and Shooting. The 63-year-old was named in the country’s greatest Test XI by the ECB on the occasion of England’s 1000th Test in August last year. He was knighted in 2007 and was inducted in ICC Hall of Fame in 2009.
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