Former cricketer and coach David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd has lifted the lid on an eventful {golfing} journey with Sir Ian Botham – which he revealed left the England legend with harm ribs and a lower arm.
Bumble, 78, informed the story on a Persist with Cricket podcast alongside fellow former England stars Phil Tufnell, Michael Vaughan and Sir Alastair Prepare dinner this week.
Tufnell introduced up a well-known incident at Brisbane within the 1986-87 Ashes collection, when followers set free a pig with ‘Botham’ and ‘Eddie’ written on it, referring to the England captain and team-mate Eddie Hemmings.
And it led Bumble right into a newer anecdote, detailing his journey to Spain with 69-year-old Botham and different former England cricketers.
‘Speaking about Beefy, I’ve simply been to Valderrama with him and Andy Lloyd, Billy Foster the caddie and Paul Allott. Three days,’ mentioned Bumble on The Overlap and Betfair’s Persist with Cricket present. ‘On day one, Beefy turns his buggy over whereas he’s in it. He rolls the buggy on a hill, with him and Tim Bostock, the chief govt up at Durham.
‘Bostock climbs out, however there’s no manner Beefy is climbing out so we carry the buggy again up with Beefy in it, he’s bust two ribs, lacerated his arm, and is bleeding profusely from his hand.’
Sir Ian Botham injured two ribs, an arm, a hand, and his nostril on a latest {golfing} journey – and requested for no person to inform his spouse Kathryn!
The England cricket legend has suffered fairly a number of high-profile accidents on and off the sphere down the years (pictured on fishing journey in Australia)
He suffered some nasty bruising after falling into crocodile-infested waters in Australia in 2024
And issues obtained much more painful for the England legend later within the journey, in response to Bumble.
‘Subsequent evening, we go to this elegant restaurant and he will get on the wine. He stood up and promptly fell over straight onto his nostril! He’s bust his nostril, blood in all places on this restaurant. They obtained him again up after which he slipped on the blood and went down once more!
‘They obtained him within the automobile and obtained him to mattress and his final phrases earlier than he went to sleep had been “don’t inform Kath!” He was completely black and blue.’
Vaughan then identified that Don’t Inform Kath was the title of Botham’s 2000 autobiography.
Botham has been recognized for getting himself into some high-profile accidents and has been via the wars along with his accidents.
Final yr, he survived a fall into crocodile-infested waters on a fishing journey in northern Australia along with his previous Ashes opponent Merv Hughes.
Botham got here away from that one with extreme bruising however was fortunately out of the water fast sufficient, because of the assistance of Hughes, to evade the snapping enamel of ‘fairly a number of’ crocs.
There have been loads of knocks on the sphere, too. In 1977 he broke a toe after stepping on a ball throughout a match at Headingley, getting himself admitted to hospital. It was there that he stumbled throughout a ward coping with youngsters affected by leukaemia, inspiring his future efforts to boost cash for analysis on it.
A extreme again harm in 1988 additionally hampered him. He had dived for a catch within the slips, fallen awkwardly, and ended up needing surgical procedure. Thirty years later, he wanted surgical procedure once more on his backbone because of this. However Botham was all the time a lionhearted kind and had marched on along with his cricketing.
David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd was talking on The Overlap and Betfair’s Stick to Cricket present.
