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You can put away your videos of Botham’s Ashes, never mind anything featuring Andrew Flintoff. England’s greatest-ever all-rounder is…Tim Bresnan. The figures don’t lie:
| Batting average | Bowling average | |
| Tim Bresnan | 45.42 | 23.60 |
| Ian Botham | 33.55 | 28.40 |
| Andrew Flintoff | 31.78 | 32.79 |
And don’t forget, Bresnan’s figures have been achieved in an Ashes series in Australia and a series against the world’s No.1 team at the time: India.
Footnotes:
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He doesn’t yet qualify for my World’s Greatest All-rounders table (https://cricdata.org/players/xfactor) because he has neither 500 runs nor 50 wickets. But he will
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If you look at the table, England’s greatest all-rounders are actually Ted Dexter and Tony Greig. But who cares about them?