Every mission needs someone who can believe that the impossible can not only be attempted but achieved. Someone who can drag the entire team out to achieve more than what they believe is possible. Someone like my next pick who had a habit of doing it for a team that was in desperate need of it...
Meet
Sir Ian Terence Botham, one of the greatest all-rounders to have played test cricket. On his day, there wasn't a greater cricketer in the world let alone all-rounder. One of the biggest match winners to have played test cricket, he was a shining light in a team that often demanded him to burn the brightest and he frequently did to the detriment of his overall career. Even if his batting had declined significantly post-1986 and even if his bowling was a shadow of his former self after the magical 1981 summer, teams feared Botham just because of what he was capable of. This included
even bowling spin on occasion when his fitness was significantly letting him down to no longer bowl pace. His overall career numbers do no justice to the fantastic and frightening force of nature he was when he still gave a damn.
In my side, he will bat in the lower order and he will primarily be used for his bowling capabilities rather than his batting. Botham the bowler was a fearsome prospect and one you could argue for being among the top 30 test bowlers in history, I intend to make use of that version.
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers
Keith Miller
Ian Botham
@Na Maloom Afraad with the next pick.