Richie Benaud looks back at the 1981 Cornhill Test Series between England and Australia with Ian Botham , the man who was always in the headlines, the man who began as an out-of-form England captain and who finished a national hero, as he swung the series from near defeat to total victory with individual performances that had the cricketing world applauding in stunned admiration. The repercussions of the series were felt on both sides of the world, as almost never before. The stock exchange almost came to a standstill during the extraordinary Headingley Test. In Australia one sports programme went on the air with funereal music, its presenter - former Australian captain Ian Chappell no less - wearing a black armband!