Butcher's innings was incredible. I watched every ball.
His eyes were hawklike. He must have been seeing basketballs
towards the end. Regarding Botham's possession,
I think he looked like an overweight
Tim Roth on speed, weilding that four pound bat
as a pain monger wields the tongs.
Anthony
>With so many Aussies on this list, we shouldn't crow. But after all, they've
>won the series and beaten us at everything else recently, so what the hell!
>That was some innings by Mark Butcher, wasn't it? I was supposed to be
>working, but ended up watching nearly all of it. My theory is that he was
>possessed by the spirit of Botham revisiting the scene of his greatest
>triumph twenty years later. Which begs the question of who Botham was
>possessed by at the same time, and whether anyone noticed.
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