Rex Clementine, in Sunday Island, 27 October 2013, with title “ Consider Botham for a State Award”
Sir Ian Botham announcing his walk during a media briefing in Colombo.
No Ashes contest passes by without the memory of Sir Ian Botham. About to be sacked as captain in 1981, Botham stepped down as England skipper in humiliation after collecting a pair in the Lord’s Test, with England trailing 1-0. What happened afterwards is history as playing under Mike Brearly, Botham won England the Ashes singlehandedly 3-1. The Ashes hero will be in Sri Lanka next week walking from Mankulam to Seenigama on a nine-day journey during which he will help raise funds to uplift the living standards of the poor and needy. While several Sri Lankan cricket stars are scheduled to join Sir Ian in his effort, Sourav Ganguly, Shane Warne, Michael Vaughan and rugby legend Morne du Plessis are also scheduled to take part. The funds generated will be directed to the Foundation of Goodness that has a charity running up at Seenigama which is about to establish another in Mankulam. How much funds he will raise, Sir Ian is not quite sure. “If we say one million, everyone will stop with one million. We will try to raise as much as we can. We are pretty good at highway robberies you know,” Sir Ian said recently during a media briefing. Sir Ian’s latest walk was in April for Leukemia Research and it raised a total of 1,600,000 British Pound. Continue reading →
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