The Ashes: Ian Botham And Ian Chappell In Televised Bag Fight
THE Ashes. England are toying with an Australia team that look like, well, England used to. And in the Adelaide Oval car park, Ian Botham and Ian Chappell are going toe-to-toe.
Chappell, of Channel Nine, is said to walked past Botham (Sky Sports) and “muttered something highly provocative as he went past“. Botham is reported to have replied: “What did you say?”
The story continues:
They dropped their bags and “went for each other” before being separated by their colleagues from Channel Nine and Sky.
Ian V Ian. Who wins?
The animosity between the pair started in 1977, when, during the Centenary Test in Melbourne, Botham said Chappell uttered comments attacking the English, so he punched him and chased him out of a pub. Chappell’s version of events was that Botham had teased him about not touring in England because “too many blokes are looking to knock your block off”.
We’d pay good money to se that fight on Sky, which may care to hold back any footage for £9.99 promotion. Incidentally, Australia won that Centenary Test – back in the dim and distant past when they used to play cricket better than us…
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Frustrated by no play in the Centenary Test, spectators who had invaded the playing area during an inspection offer their jackets to mop up the excess water. This delay resulted in the incident where Lord's pavilion members threw punches at England Captain Ian Botham (not pictured) after believing him to be in alliance with the umpires in deliberately delaying play. After the incident Ian Botham never again acknowledged the Lord's Pavilion on returning from the crease.
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Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
