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On this day in 1980... - dillinger10 - 02-19-2016
Ian Botham became the first man to score a century and take 10 wickets in a Test with a performance for the ages against India in Bombay. Beefy took 6 for 58 and 7 for 48, sandwiched in between was a decisive 114 from 144 balls - no other batsman on either team managed even a half century.
What arguably makes this performance even more memorable is Botham's antics after the close of second day:
Quote:"I set Crash and Deadly [Underwood] a challenge," Botham explains. "Standing on the table, they had to drink some brandy, eat a tandoori chicken and read a passage from the Gideon Bible at the same time. They failed miserably."
One of the chicken drumsticks did come in handy to mend a malfunctioning television, and was then burnt to a crisp the following day when Lander, too hungover to go to the Wankhede, was watching an apparently unaffected Botham claim seven for 48 in India's second innings. At some stage of the Bombay stay, Botham also had his blue suede shoes stolen after they had been left in the hotel corridor by Underwood.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2012/nov/22/ian-botham-stuart-broad
Re: On this day in 1980... - thedeatheater1410 - 02-19-2016
After Ian Botham, the feat has since been repeated by two more people: Imran Khan against India and Sakib-ul-hasan against Zimbabwe. Imran took 11 wickets and scored 117 runs in the first innings, while Sakib took 10 wickets and scored 137 runs, again in the first innings