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  • These were good days. I remember this like yesterday.

  • Merv looks slim

  • Botham wins in cricket, Merv wins in mos

  • I think Merv said your a Whinging POM to the wrong person and got carted for 22 in an over. LOL!!!!!

  • Beefy had such great natural talent with the bat similar to Freddie but sometimes you felt if they controlled that agression they couldve scored many more hundreds. Both great stroke makers and timers of a cricket ball the slog shot was there only weakness.

  • I reckon the 'xxxx' on the canvas tent after that massive 6 is deleting the expletive that Merv Hughes was thinking...

  • mullet over

  • Botham did indeed rock nearly 400 wickets and over 5000 runs, but it was the style in which he batted bowled and caught that did it for me.

    And I like the hair!

  • Ian Botham is a true legend.

  • Are you mad or what. This hairstyle of his spelt heroism. It was so so cool

  • How to make six cricketers out of three? Miandad, Ewen Chatfield, and Botham.

    Gone on say it, you know you want to.

  • I like that hair

  • i preferred the old GAbba

  • look at all those pussies wearing helmets.

  • fuckin awesome stuff,hitting a bowler of mervs quality for big,big shots and with no helmet on.....brilliant

  • any reason why we only got three balls of the over...?

  • shit hair but fuck pulling them without a lid on, slight edge and he would have no face left

  • moustache-on-moustache action

  • After this match the Bowler went back to his job in The Village People.

  • I am a massive England fan, but Merv Hughes, towards the end of his career, had to put his knees on ice at the end of every days play. He has to be included in a legend of the game.

  • LEGEND

  • The Botham of 78-82 was the greatest all rounder there has ever been.

    Just as impressive for me are the millions he has raised for charity.

    Respect sir.

  • Such bad tasting comments, enjoy the cricket, the match is over, the winner is irrelevant, Merv was a brilliant bowler as was Ian, lets enjoy the moment, huh?

  • @Nobby2001

    Indeed Nobby...on his day, Hughes was a superb cricketer. It just shows what a great player Botham was as he did this to a great bowler not a pie chucker...

  • Without helmet!!..My god these magnificient guys played without helmets. Truly brilliant and real men meeting fire with fire and with aplomb.

  • @ssprash they were stupid

  • Take that, you pie-eating pie-chucking walrus-moustached son of a sheep-shearer!

  • To suggest he was good despite his stats is insanity, he was no doubt a brilliant player on his day but like a lot of great players he was majorly inconsistent and hence not a ledgend of the game.

    Flintoff was pretty much Botham all over again, brilliant every so often but plauged by inconsistency and injury and therfore not a ledgend.

    Stats never lie, never

  • My ranking of greatest ever :

    Gary Sobers, Imran khan, Jacques Kallis, Keith Miller, Richard Hadlee, Kapil Dev, Ian Botham, Shaun Pollock, Trevor Goddard, Tony Greig, Vinoo Mankad.

  • @majesticmaniac this opinion you have offered is open to serious debate!!! you have not included Sir Viv Richards!!

  • @peshayuk....if u have not noticed, i was only talking about all rounders...otherwise i have also not included, don bradman, or sachin tendulkar...

  • @majesticmaniac i did not and therefore stand corrected!! your list in that case is pretty damn correct!!

  • @peshayuk....lol

  • Anyone who compares Warne to Botham is a moron.Thats like comparing Einstein to Bruce Lee

  • Botham had his intermittent moments but Kallis shines everlastingly

  • @n1ck822...you clearly dont understand bowling averages! the higher the number, the WORSE the average...Kallis is a better batting average, but Botham is better at bowling!!

  • lol, this clip looked like it was recorded in 3d, so I put my 3d specs on and it's amazing :)

  • @MrDenizen

    that's funny.

  • just the treatment the wanker mustache pete aussie deserves

  • @nighterjay Garfield Sobers and jaque kallis is much better then botham as an allrounder botham average 30 with bat and 27 with ball Garfield sobers average 57.16 with bat 34 with ball. jaque kallis 57 with bat 32 with ball.

  • @n1ck822 his stats were low because he often threw his wicket away for his country,  he only bowled for wickets, and never containment, he was among the top 3 slip catchers of his generation, and he was a born leader, statisitics pah!!!

  • nice one beefy....got no time for wankers who go round spitting in peoples faces....i notice he didnt try it with botham

  • WTF...I thought you would have posted 1 over and not just 3 balls !! This clip covers only 14 runs in 3 balls...you missed out 8 more.

  • @ 0.43, Bob Willis says that players like Botham only come once in a life time. Shane Warne comes at breakfast, dinner and tea.

  • Merv "Freddie Mercury" Hughes was just another fat, crass, loud mouthed, Aussie faggot who was as shit back then as he is now. Hey Australia don't you think it's ironic that one of your so called sporting superstars looks like Freddie mercury's double albeit with an extra hundred kilos????????????

  • wud love to have a drink with botham!

  • Extra credit for playing hook shot with no helmet. Miscalculation and you could end up dead

  • Hughes had spat at Phil defraites when he faced his first bal in test cricket. He told botham and ians reply was " don't worry I'll be taking care of him"

    This over is what followed!

    Brilliant!

    Go and fetch that you stupid moustached faced veggiemite eating prick!

  • Hard man to face pace without a helmet

  • HE'S THAT GOOD HE DOESN'T NNED AN HELMET

  • Regardless of Botham's cricketing skills and prowess, he should never have been selected for England until he did something about that hairstyle.

  • @bofursgun There is people in the USA who think that is the height of fashion

  • @wingman662

    And there are even people in USA who like Oprah Winfrey!!!

    Remarkable but true.

  • ha ha.... gotta love beefy.... I wish he was australian, i wish we had him now.

  • I haven't seen this for 25 years! Thanks for posting it.

  • That was just 14 runs... As for that commentator who said Hughes shouldn't have been bowling short - I disagree, since Botham had no helmet on. The captain and Hughes should have set the field accordingly.

  • Boycott is way better than the Kangeroo shagger Warne.

  • Ye fuck the Aussies who say that Warn is the king look at Botham his wrecking and wacking the bowlers and look at Boycott: Test's:108 Runs:8,114 100s/50s:22/42 Top score:246* ODI:36 Runs:1,082 100's/50's:1/9 Top score:105 First Class:609 Runs:4,8426 100's/50's:151/238 Top Score:261* List A:313 Runs:10,095 100's/50's:8/74 Top score:146 Total Games:1,066 Runs:67,717 100's:182 50's:363.
  • Haha this is what youtube was invented for to see Botham cane the aussies all around the park in the electric 1980s! When England was making some pretty good pop music and films in this decade too LOL!

  • Haha this is what youtube was invented for to see Botham cane the aussies all around the park in the electric 80s! LOL!

  • Beefy as ever with no helmet! When asked why he didn't wear one he once replied...'I have protection...it's called my bat!'....And what a bat...Duncan Fearnley MAGNUM

    Try holding one for 10 overs!!! lol

  • His charity work is great.

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  • we need another botham.

  • I SAW HIM IN OXFORD STREET WITH HIS WIFE!!!! :)

  • wat a player!!

  • You have to give it to this man... He is playing Hughes without Helmet... Amazing :-)

  • Beefy was a god - Merv & Warne were just mincers

  • Wow, this was Botham's last test century. Probably the last series he had a great impact upon.

  • You can call this video "Two fat bastards playing cricket"

  • @bongo155 lmfao dude that was so jokes, seriously i just fell to the floor and started laughing and its so true, a fat ass is bowling to a fat ass. Lol rock on that was jokes

  • That last on drive was as beautiful as the first six was ugly. Good work Beefy!

  • @YoungTwistah and even the non striker is wearing a helmet in this video. lol

  • @YoungTwistah actually, tony greig started wearing a motorcycle helmet in the mid 70's, this was in 1986, helmets had been available for quite a long time.

  • hmmm i do seem to remember a few

  • weas the rest ov thee over ? Funny 2 see them both without beer bellies !

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  • both the bats man and bowler r ,, just like bulls,,

  • Did Botham ever look at the ball when hooking?

  • Not often!

  • Was Border ever NOT scratching his balls.

  • Was this Botham's last test ton? How many runs did he get in this innings? I met the guy once and he's actually a really down to earth fella.

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  • I am fucking positive that Botham hit Craig Mcdermott for 27 runs in one over in a one day international.Has anyone got the video of this?

  • was that alan lamb hitting bruce reid for 27?

  • If a Batsman can bat properly he wouldn't get hit on the head. Did Botham get hit on the head?....Nope, and some of those balls were high.

  • I wish it was possible to switch youtube comments off.

  • What a stupid prick, going out to bat without a helmet. I wish one of those bouncers had knocked his fucking teeth out, then he'd learn to obey the safety guidelines.

  • Yeh he realyl struggled out there without it... you nob.

  • You´re stupid as fuck.

  • He's not stupid, he knows the bat is what you hit the ball with, not your teeth. We could have done with Botham at Thursday's disaster at Trent Bridge!

    Guidelines are to guide, not obey. Or would you ban playing without a helmet like this governemt is banning everything else?

  • Look, I know Botham is a good player but he is also a role model and as such he should be setting examples. What if a youngster saw this video and decided that he didn't need to wear a helmet when he faced fast bowling? And then other youngsters start following his example? Cricket can be a dangerous sport and I'm sure everybody playing would rather their teammate didn't die from a vicious blow to the head because he refused to wear a helmet after seeing his heroes forgoe them.

  • @GenericInsect1979 Mate, he actually did wear a helmet, just not against fat pie chuckers like Merv Hughes, but against proper fast bowling like the West Indies.

    As for being a role model...........Well he did a great job. Stuffing the aussies with 6 after 6 after 6 for many a year.

  • wow man im not even gunna comment on how stupid and gay and shit ur reply was just fuckin hang urself man u LOSER!!!!

  • i just knoticed, there all mentle. no fuckin hemets jesus.

  • botham rocks and look at that hair

  • this game is sooooo confusing. i have no idea what anything means.

  • well, very basically, when the batsmen(batter) hits the ball, he gets 1 'run' every time he gets to the opposite end. alternatively, if he can hit the ball to the boundary along the ground, he automatically gets 4 runs. if he hits it over the boundary on the full, he gets 6. he keeps going until he gets caught or goes out in various other ways. there are 11 batsmen on each team and the team which scores the highest total runs wins. i've skipped over many details, but that's the very basic stuff.

  • its only 14 in an over

  • i used to have a DF attack what a bat and what a legend botham is

  • fuck you

  • shut the fuck up you sloppy gypo cunt

  • Hey Merv!!!

    "YMCA...it's good to go to the YMCA!!"

    Fuckin breadstealing shitter

  • Haha fuck all of those aussies who say warne is king, well i got two words for you.... Ian Botham

  • @liambannin warnie shits better cricketers than this pommy cunt

  • @brynjones11 Aussie Cricketers where Shit Scared of this guy, especially Merv Hughes who was a Bullying Bastard who got taken apart in this series...

  • @brynjones11 LOL... You silly, wallaby wanking turd!! Ian Botham is regarded as the best allrounder of all time by people who know cricket. Shane warne was a fantastic bowler but could not bat to save his life...

  • @nighterjay botham was good in the day but not the best all rounder ever. jaque kalis would be better then him. average 57 with bat 32 with ball. botham 30 with bat 27 with ball

  • @liambannin OBVIOUSLY NOT DIPSHIT! Yeh sure warne was the best SPINNER of all time, but he couldnt bat for shit, Botham was one of the best bowlers of his time AND undoubtedly the best batsmen.

  • warne it really goot tho

  • Just saw Merv at Edgbaston on Friday. Still got the bangers, top man!

  • That's not Merv Hughes is it? Far too thin to be him...;)

  • vow! he was so brave! playing fast bowling without a helmet and hooking!

  • Didn't some guy die from trying to do that a few years ago?

  • After this, the bowler gave up cricket and went back to his day job in the Village People.

  • Very funny!!! I wouldn't say that to his face though ha ha!!

  • Village people? lol, I don't think you would have dared say that to Merv's face - not unless you wanted to see a new use for a cricket stump.

  • bet you $1000 i would say it to his face, he's a fukin pufter

  • @grassingtongreen Merv Hughes was a brilliant cricketer... everyone has bad days in sport, including Botham.

  • @grassingtongreen suprisingly they both had the same surname,the other one was glenn

  • Long live Sir Beefy!

  • Rack off Bruce ya yy chromo leatherfaced vegemite sandwich. Overseas overseas ya gallah.

  • wow, he must have been very brave to play without a helmet against a fast bowler.

  • Does anybody have his 59* v NZ at the Oval in 1986? Best innings I have seen him play

  • Botham was an erratic batsmen but when he was on song he was fantastic value. He made good test bowlers look like dibbly-dobbly amateurs. What a player he was and the previous comment is bang on; Hughes fancied himself as a sledger and doesn't really say very much in this clip, does he?

  • Shut the fuck up and get back to laying train tracks you fucking colonial

  • where s merv s mouth ???? That loud mouth aussie loved intimidating batsman but no one intimidated botham chappell tried and got smacked

  • Thats a very dodgy barnet

  • Beefy is a legend

  • I could swear that Botham smashed 27 runs of a Craig Mcdermott over in a one day match in Australia.Does anyone remember that or am i the only one who remembers it.He smashed 3 sixes,2 fours and a run.He hit a four straight past the bowler so hard,the fieldsman let the bastard go!The boundary fence had a big dent.Superb!

  • it could have been but i remember he took to a new australian bowler one day i think his name was simon davis, from memory he hit over 20 off one of his overs.

  • who are the two commentators?

  • Tony Grieg and Bob Willis

  • and his a victorian i love him ...get him up here...merv merv merv

  • tony greg is commentating.

  • ian botham never wore a helmet

  • Actually he did later in his career.

  • good player shame you pomes have not had one since !!! hahahahahahaha

  • Pomes? You can't even verbally abuse correcly ollie or whatever your name is. Typical convict! It's spelt P-O-H-M as in Property Of Her Majesty ok? Got that idiot?!

  • You plank !!!!!! pom(e) stands for prisoner of mother England.. If you're gonna be a cocky twat then make sure you get your facts right first... you make me embarrassed to be English... Idiot !

  • its "pome"...

  • I have looked into this and it seems both POHM and POME are correct. 'POHM' comes from the colonial times when prisoners had their uniforms decorated with the 'POHM' Property Of Her Majesty' badge and 'POME' is more modern (according to Geoffry Boycott) which makes 'POME' Property Of Mother England OR POMEgranite (as in red as a POMEgranite when an Englishman gets too much of the Aussie sun!!). This makes both correct.

  • Not had one what? Ian Botham? That's because there is ONLY ONE Ian Botham. Sorry to break that news to you pal.

  • Beefy, helmetless and taking it to the aussies. I bet even that bit of hitting didn't shut Merv up. There are Tossers and then there's Merv. Long live Sir Beefy!!

  • Merv Hughes. Biggest tosser ever to take the stage, and that says something given the number of Australian tossers who have come after him. I think he looks a bit like Chopper, and was around about the same time as Chopper was making hedlines. Says a lot about Aussies and their hero status. "Oiii mate, this crickter looks like Chopper, betta make him a national hero then."

  • no helmet and big merv could deliver a rapid ball. good on ya beefy

  • Botham good boy , respected in Asia

    Merv Hughes is a bastard who knows nothing other than sledging

  • This innings marked the end of Botham as a high quality all rounder as he never scored another test 100 and injuries reduced the pace of his bowling to medium pace.

  • I read in Beefys' book,that after this game Merv Hughes confronted Beefy by the dressing rooms and said 'Do you remember me from years ago',to which Beefy said 'No',Merv told him'hed met him 10 years ago,and as a young bowler do you have some good advise.Beefy told young Merv 'Take up golf',Merv told Beefy 'Well here iam today bowling in an Ashes test match',Beefy stunned Merv by saying 'And by the way you bowled mate,i was right,you should have taken up golf'.

  • Ian Bothom ......the best England player ever.

  • he aint wearing a helmet, u gotta love beefy!

  • sir beef. The one and only. If only we could turn back the clock.

  • Can't you just watch that all night? Exspecially as the Aussies always kick our arses now - bring back Beefy.

  • I hate Hughes.

    I wasn't even born when he was playing and i hate him.

  • Hilarious Merv from 00:25-00:26

  • hehehehe!!!!!.....he is sucking lollipop

  • tickets please!

  • I doubt that there is anything false about big merve, And I'm not an Aussie supporter. He has a great heart. I know cos I met him.

  • merv wore a fake tash, to make him feel better about himself.

  • merv is a dud

  • as much as i hate the english cricket team, nothing gives me more pleasure to see Mevr Hughes being smashed for sixes

  • That was only 14 runs!! Ripped off by false advertising. I'm gonna sue your ass off!!!

  • That is because it was only 3 deliveries that were shown

  • The other 3 deliveries were crap.

  • Arise Sir "Beefy" .

  • bet he takes it up the botham

  • merv was a pie chucker.

  • maybe if allan border spent more time on his field placements and less time adjusting his penis aussie might win

  • At 00.53 Allan Border is adjusting his small australian penis.

  • nice observartion gay boy

  • seriously WHO CARES!!

  • michael slater has been rooting adam gilchrists missus what a slut she is