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Matthew Cooper

Ashes rivals Ian Botham and Ian Chappell clash over 45-year feud with "coward" jibe

Ashes rivals Ian Botham and Ian Chappell have been embroiled in a heated feud dating back to 1977 and the pair recently sat down together to revisit their rivalry - and it did not take long for the insults to start flying.

The feud stems from an incident at the bar in Melbourne's Hilton Hotel, with Chappell claiming Botham threatened to cut him "from ear to ear". He told News Corp : "When he put the beer glass to my face and said, 'I'll cut you from ear to ear,' we were actually playing against each other the next day, because I was playing for North Melbourne in club cricket.

"I said to him: 'Mate, if you cut me with a beer glass it will confirm what I already think of you, that you are a coward, but if you cut me with a cricket ball tomorrow that would mean something. But the ball had better bounce first because if you do it with a full toss, if I am capable, I am coming down your end and I will hit you over the head with the bat.''

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