Richards and Botham: rivalry and friendship

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

England 's 2020 Test series victory against West Indies will be the last time the two countries contest the Wisden Trophy. The next time they meet in a series they will play for the Richards-Botham Trophy, named after two legends of the game: Sir Viv Richards and Sir Ian Botham. In this special TMS podcast, the two men tell Isa Guha about their friendship, their period together as team-mates at Somerset and their rivalry on the pitch when on opposite sides for their respective nations.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:09.9	I'm Jonathan Agnew, welcome to a special TMS podcast.
0:13.6	England have claimed the wisdom trophy following a two-one series victory in the last wisdom
0:18.0	trophy with future England and Western disseries played for the Richards-Botham trophy, named
0:23.7	after Sir Vivian Richards and Sir Ian Botham, of course.
0:26.8	Well, you should go and manage to get the two cricketing nights together.
0:30.4	You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:36.2	Gentlemen, what a pleasure it is to be joined by two seers and the Botham Richards-Trophy
0:42.8	watered on her.
0:44.5	How special is that for both of you?
0:46.9	Sir Ian, I'll start with you.
0:48.9	Look, it came out of the blue.
0:50.9	I've got a phone call and I sat back and I thought, well, that really is a big one.
0:56.7	To have that now renamed, I thought it was quite amazing and I thought, well, it couldn't
1:04.8	be with a better blog.
1:05.8	So, I'm very happy that the two of us have been, I'm pleased for as much of myself as
1:11.6	I am for this because he's the best player at the best batsman I ever voted.
1:20.7	In every format of the game, he's been the best.
1:22.7	So, it was a great honour to grow up with him.
1:25.3	We started our first class careers on the first same day and we played and had a great run
1:31.5	at Summer Set Together in a fantastic dressing room, led by Brian Close at the start.
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