Ian Botham - Test Centuries and Five-wicket Innings

Test Centuries and Five-wicket Innings

See also: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Ian Botham

Botham achieved the double of making a century and taking 5 wickets in an innings in the same Test match 5 times. Only three other players have achieved this feat more than once: Sir Gary Sobers, Mushtaq Mohammad and Jacques Kallis, who have each done it twice. He is the only man to have made a century and take 8 wickets in an innings in the same Test match, 108 and 8/34 against Pakistan at Lord's in 1978. Botham was also the first of only two men to make a century and take 10 wickets in the same Test match, the other being Imran Khan. Botham did this in the Centenary Test in Bombay in 1979–80 (114, 6/58 and 7/48), the last match before he became England captain. In the 25 Tests he played before he became captain he made 6 centuries and took 5 wickets in an innings 14 times, including 10 in a match 3 times, an astonishing record.

Ian Botham's 14 Test Centuries and 27 Test Five Wickets Hauls
No 100s No 5 Wt Test Opponents Season Venue City Country Result
1 5/75 Third Test Australia 1977 Trent Bridge Nottingham England England won by 7 wickets
2 5/21 Fourth Test Australia 1977 Headingley Stadium Leeds England England won by an innings and 85 runs
1 103 3 5/73 Second Test New Zealand 1977–78 Lancaster Park Christchurch New Zealand England won by 174 runs
4 5/109 Third Test New Zealand 1977–78 Eden Park Auckland New Zealand Match Drawn
2 100 First Test Pakistan 1978 Edgbaston Cricket Ground Birmingham England England won by an innings and 57 runs
3 108 5 8/34 Second Test Pakistan 1978 Lord's Cricket Ground London England England won by an innings and 120 runs
6 6/34 Second Test New Zealand 1978 Trent Bridge Nottingham England England won by and innings an 119 runs
7
8		 6/101
5/39		 Third Test New Zealand 1978 Lord's Cricket Ground London England England won by 7 wickets
9 5/70 First Test India 1979 Edgbaston Cricket Ground Birmingham England England won by an innings and 83 runs
10 5/35 Second Test India 1979 Lord's Cricket Ground London England Match Drawn
4 137 Third Test India 1979 Headingley Stadium Leeds England Match Drawn
11
12		 6/78
5/98		 First Test Australia 1979–80 WACA Ground Perth Australia Australia won by 138 runs
5 119* Third Test Australia 1979–80 Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Australia Australia won by 8 wickets
6 114 13
14		 6/58
7/48		 Centenary Test India 1979–80 Wankhede Stadium Bombay India England won by 10 wickets
7 149* 15 6/95 Third Test Australia 1981 Headingley Stadium Leeds England England won by 18 runs
16 5/11 Fourth Test Australia 1981 Edgbaston Cricket Ground Birmingham England England won by 29 runs
8 118 Fifth Test Australia 1981 Old Trafford Cricket Ground Manchester England England won by 103 runs
17 6/125
4/128		 Sixth Test Australia 1981 Kennington Oval London England Match Drawn
18 5/61 First Test India 1981–82 Wankhede Stadium Bombay India India won by 138 runs
9 142 Sixth Test India 1981–82 Modi Stadium Kanpur India Match Drawn
19 5/46 First Test India 1982 Lord's Cricket Ground London England England won by 7 wickets
10 128 Second Test India 1982 Old Trafford Cricket Ground Manchester England Match Drawn
11 208 Third Test India 1982 Kennington Oval London England Match Drawn
20 5/74 Third Test Pakistan 1982 Headingley Stadium Leeds England England won by 3 wickets
12 103 Fourth Test New Zealand 1983 Trent Bridge Nottingham England England won by 165 runs
13 138 21 5/59 First Test New Zealand 1983–84 Basin Reserve Wellington New Zealand Match Drawn
22 8/103 Second Test West Indies 1984 Lord's Cricket Ground London England West Indies won by 9 wickets
23 5/72 Fifth Test West Indies 1984 Kennington Oval London England West Indies won by 172 runs
24 6/90 First Test Sri Lanka 1984 Lord's Cricket Ground London England Match Drawn
25 5/109 Second Test Australia 1985 Lord's Cricket Ground London England Australia won by 4 wickets
26 5/71 Fourth Test West Indies 1985–86 Queen's Park Oval Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago West Indies won by 10 wickets
14 138 First Test Australia 1986–87 Brisbane Cricket Ground Brisbane Australia England won by 7 wickets
27 5/41 Fourth Test Australia 1986–87 Melbourne Cricket Ground Melbourne Australia England won by an innings and 14 runs

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