LONDON – Wales rugby debutant James Botham remembers vividly the moment he became aware the man he once thought of just as his grandfather was also one of England’s greatest cricketers.
“I knew of it, but it wasn’t really until I got told by my gran (Kath Botham),” recalled the 22-year-old Cardiff Blues flanker.
“We were all playing cricket in the garden and he’s got a cigar in one hand, which he put in his mouth, a glass of wine in the other with a cricket bat!
“I did ask the question to my grandmother ‘was he any good at cricket?’. She said ‘he was alright at some point!’.
“Growing up in school playing cricket myself I realised it a bit more, as people would try and get into me when I came out to bat.
“That all…
