Botham announces end of overseas career
NZPA-AFP Beziers, France
The beleaguered English cricket star, lan Botham, took time off yesterday from his 800 km trek ! in the footsteps of HanniI bal to announce the end ) of his overseas playing career. . “I do not want io play abroad any more ” said the controversial star, ! heading for the Alps on ) the . same route the Carthaginian general took in 218 BC. The Englishman, engaged in a charity walk to raise money for leukaemia research, was sacked by Queensland earlier in
the week for causing trouble on a domestic flight in | Australia and for damaging a Tasmanian cricket club dressing room.
“You can do everything right for five and a) half months and then one minor incident, and I say minor, is blown up totally out of all proportion and then what happens?” Botham said. \
“It’s (not me who goes through it. I was there and I know what happened. But my family were not and they have to live with the malicious writings of some of the tabloids.”
He said the one thing he had,missed was English soccer, ) “From now on I’m going to catch a lot more if it. I don’t want to play cricket for 10 or 112 months a year any more.
“I owe it to my family. At the end of the day that really has come home to me this winter.”
Botham thought that stopping at home during English winters would do both his career and his family life the world of good. However, he said, he enjoyed his brief stay with Queensland.
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Press, 2 April 1988, Page 76
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