By BEN WINSTANLEY, SPORTS REPORTER. Published: 09:55 GMT on 29 October 2025. Updated: 10:00 GMT on 29 October 2025.| Updated: 10:09 GMT, 29 October 2025
Former cricketer David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd has lifted the lid on an eventful golfing trip with Sir Ian Botham – which he revealed left the EnglYou can also find out more about the following: legend with hurt ribs and a cut arm.Bumble, 78, told the story on a Stick to Cricket podcast alongside fellow former England stars Phil Tufnell, Michael Vaughan and Sir Alastair Cook this week.Tufnell brought up a famous incident at Brisbane in the 1986-87 Ashes series, when fans set loose a pig with ‘Botham’ and ‘Eddie’ It had the names of both Eddie Hemmings, England’s captain, and his teammate Eddie Hemmings written on it. Bumble then told a story about a recent trip to Spain he took with Botham, 69, and other ex-England cricketers.‘Talking about Beefy, I’We’ve been to Valderrama together with Andy Lloyd, Billy Foster and Paul Allott. Three days,’ said Bumble on The Overlap and Betfair’s Stick to Cricket show. ‘One day one, Beefy turns his buggy over while he’S in it. He is rolling the buggy with Tim Bostock, who is the chief executive of Durham.‘Bostock climbs out, but there’s no way Beefy is climbing out so we lift the buggy back 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 nose on a recent golfing trip – and asked for nobody to tell his wife Kathryn! The England cricket legend has suffered quite a few high-profile injuries on and off the field down the years (pictured on fishing trip in Australia) He suffered some nasty bruising after falling into crocodile-infested waters in Australia in 2024 And things got even more painful for the England legend later in the trip, according to Bumble.‘Next night, we go to this classy restaurant and he gets on the wine. He stood up and promptly fell over straight onto his nose! He’The blood was everywhere. Then they got him up again and he slipped and fell on the blood!‘They got him in the car and got him to bed and his last words before he went to sleep were “don’t tell Kath!” He was absolutely black and blue.’Vaughan then pointed out that Don’t Tell Kath was the title of Botham’s 2000 autobiography.Botham has been known for getting himself into some high-profile accidents and has been through the wars with his injuries. Last year he was able to survive a fall from crocodile infested water on a trip to northern Australia, with his old Ashes rival Merv Hughes. Botham was left with severe bruising, but he managed to get out of the water quickly enough to avoid the jaws of “quite” a few crocs, thanks to Hughes. On the field there were also many knocks. He broke his toe in 1977 after stepping on the ball during a Headingley match. This led to him being admitted to hospital. It was there that he stumbled across a ward dealing with kids suffering from leukaemia, inspiring his future efforts to raise money for research on it. He was also hindered by a severe injury to his back in 1988. He fell awkwardly after diving for a catch on the slips. As a result, 30 years later he had to have surgery on his spine. Botham had always been a lionhearted man and continued to play cricket. David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd appeared on The Overlap with Betfair’s Stick to Cricket show.
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Lord Botham’s bad behavior! England cricket legend Ian “flips a buggy, breaking his two ribs before slipping on himself in a drunken session” in Spain and says “don’t tell me my wife!”
2025-10-29 10:09:18
