5 Famous cricketers who had also tried a career in football

#2 Ian Botham

Ian Botham pursued his footballing career for Scunthorpe United team.

The legendary English cricketer regarded as Sir Ian Terence Botham is also the one among those 5 cricketers who chose football first. He selected football as his main profession in the year 1978. He stayed with football for the total of 8 years and later on realized that football was not meant for him and was way harder than it seemed to him.

He played international football from 1978 to 1985 for 2 teams. Yeovil Town and Scunthorpe United. He then switched to cricket after 11 appearances on the football field. Hence, later on, he gave up his foot-balling career and started focusing on cricket which took him to a different level in the world.

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#3 Chris Balderstone

Chris Balderstone was a cricket as well as a football player for England

Chris Balderstone was a British sports person who pursued his career in cricket as well as football. He mastered his class in both of these sports and left the world as a professional footballer and cricketer in the year 2000. He played cricket as a batsman and football as a midfielder for his home side.

However, he played more of football matches as compared to cricket. He made a total of 117 appearances as a football player and only 2 appearances as an international cricketer. However, he also played 390 domestic matches at first-class level in which he scored 19,034 runs at a mind-boggling average of 34.11.

Referring to his football career, he made his debut in the year 1958 through Huddersfield town team. He scored 25 goals in his entire football career which spanned over 131 matches.