Botham hits 13 sixes
NZPA-Reuter London lan Botham hit a record 13 sixes on his way to an unbeaten 175 in Somerset’s Sunday League cricket match against Northamptonshire yesterday. It was the England allrounder’s second whirlwind century in the eight days since he returned from a two-month suspension. But it did his
side little good — the rain-hit game was eventually abandoned with Northamptonshire 54 for one in reply to Somerset’s 272 for five. Botham-faced just 122 balls ps he broke the league’s previous six-hit-ting record of 10 and failed by just one run to equal Graham Gooch’s highest individual innings in the Sunday competition.
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Press, 12 August 1986, Page 38
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