Born with a natural genius for the game, after a troubled period as captain, Botham rose to become a national hero with his display in the Miracle Ashes of 1981 But, with his confrontational nature and wild streak, he began regularly making the wrong kind of headlines, with accusations of drink and drugs, affairs and ball-tampering Now a Knight and just as famous for his tireless charity work, Beefy gives us the definitive story of his never-dull life and times in his own no-nonsense words