8) Rod Marsh and Ian Botham
The Ashes isn’t just a competition between bat and ball, its the ultimate battle between the two nations for the prestigious trophy. such that players enter into a war of words way before the start of the series.
During one of the Ashes Test, Rodney Marsh once went up to Ian Botham to ask him something uncompelling,
“So how’s your wife and my kids?”, asked Marsh
The reply from Botham stunned Marsh, “The wife’s fine. The kids are retarded!”
