Editing Ian Botham (section)

==Records in international cricket==
{{see also|Player of the Match awards (cricket)}}
[[File:IBothamBowling.png|thumb|300px|right|A graph showing Botham's Test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time]]
Botham's [[Test cricket|Test career]] spanned 16 seasons and he played in 102 matches. He scored 5,200 runs at an average of 33.54 with a highest score of 208 in his 14 [[century (cricket)|centuries]]. He took 383 [[wicket]]s at an average of 28.40 with a best return of eight for 34 and achieved [[ten wickets in a match]] four times. He held 120 catches.<ref name=CAprofile/>

In 116 LOIs from 1976 to 1992, he scored 2,113 [[run (cricket)|runs]] with a highest score of 79; took 145 [[wicket]]s with a best return of four for 31; and held 36 [[caught|catches]].<ref name=CAprofile>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1529/1529.html |title=Ian Botham |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=1 May 2017 |archive-date=19 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419025659/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1529/1529.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A straight comparison of these totals with those of his Test career reveal that he was less effective in the limited overs form of the game. He did have some outstanding LOI matches, however, winning six [[man of the match]] awards.<ref name=CAawards>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1529/match_awards.html |title=Matches in which Ian Botham won an award |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=6 May 2017 |archive-date=22 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122152740/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1529/match_awards.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Botham took part in three editions of the [[Cricket World Cup]]: 1979, 1983 and 1992. He played in 22 World Cup matches including the finals in 1979 and 1992, both of which England lost, and he was in England's losing team in the 1983 semi-final.<ref name=CAWCM>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1529/World_Cup_Matches.html |title=World Cup Matches played by Ian Botham |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=6 May 2017 |archive-date=31 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031063030/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1529/World_Cup_Matches.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Botham was the 21st player to achieve the "double" of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test cricket and he went on to score 5,200 runs and take 383 wickets, as well as holding 120 catches.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282786.html |title=All-round records |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=4 May 2017 |archive-date=28 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428211659/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282786.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

He held the world record for the greatest number of Test wickets from 21 August 1986 to 12 November 1988. His predecessor was [[Dennis Lillee]] who had retired with 355 wickets in 70 matches. Botham extended the record to 373 in 94 matches before he was overtaken by Richard Hadlee. Botham ended with 383 wickets in 102 matches while Hadlee extended the record to 431 in 86 matches. See [[List of Test cricket records#Career]].

As described above, Botham in 1980 became the second player to achieve the "match double" of 100 runs and ten wickets in Test cricket, following [[Alan Keith Davidson|Alan Davidson]] in 1960–61. Botham was, however, the first to score a century and take ten wickets in a Test match (Davidson scored 44 and 80). The century and ten double has since been achieved by [[Imran Khan]] who scored 117 and took six for 98 and five for 82 against India at the [[Iqbal Stadium]] in [[Faisalabad]] in January 1983.,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/43/43120.html |title=Pakistan v India, Third Test, 1982–83 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=4 May 2017 |archive-date=23 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223162219/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/43/43120.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and again by [[Shakib Al Hasan]] for Bangladesh against Zimbabwe at Khulna in 2014.