\n Steph Eilbeck, owner of Moresby Hall, said: \u201cThey just keep coming! We didn\u2019t know he was coming until he arrived because he booked under another name.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was lovely. He was really nice. Just a genuine person. He didn\u2019t sleep but he came and had lunch with us. He liked everything. I think we impressed them!\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe had a nice afternoon and said he was going to bring his wife and family back with him. He was up doing something at The Carnegie yesterday evening.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was a nice guy. Hopefully, we will see him again.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Sir Ian Botham with Moresby Hall owner, Steph Eilbeck (Image: Submitted)\n<\/p>\n
\n Sir Ian Bothan is a former England cricketer and sports commentator. Seen as one of the greatest all-rounders of all-time, he scored over 5,000 Test runs for England, picking up 383 wickets as well.\n<\/p>\n
\n Through the 1980s, he was part of a golden generation of all-rounders in world cricket. The 1981 Ashes, which England won 3-1, have since come to be known as Botham\u2019s Ashes for his starring performances with bat and ball.\n<\/p>\n
\n In 2007, Botham was knighted for his services to cricket and to charity.\n<\/p>\n
\n Prolific with both bat and ball, Ian Botham was the fastest to the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England cricket legend Sir Ian Botham visited Moresby Hall on September 7 ahead of his show \u2018An Audience…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-410602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174732123163401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}