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LMAO What a Legend! Nowadays they would term it as bullying lol

The programme was a tribute to his commentating skills, not his (much) wider life.

Nobby Stiles: footballer of supreme talent. I wish I could have met him and had a chat with him like this.

I don't understand why they had the camera coverage from behind the batsman on strike. Very hard to see where the impact of the ball is...whether it's bat or pad?😮😮😮

BRIILLIANT !!!!!!!!

Listening to Boycott batting was a sure way to send me off to sleep

Geoff commentary was entertaining and literally a perfect coaching lesson.

Wonderful commentator - I remember, I think it was 1980, England were playing I think it was the West indies. England had their backs to the wall in the second innings, in the afternoon of the fourth day of this test match at The Oval. Geoff Boycott and a batsman by the name of Tavare (Chris?) were at the crease. Boycott could be a slow scorer of runs, and Tavare even slower. They were scoring at something like ten runs an hour. (That might be a tad unfair, but it was very very slow.) I was listening on my car radio. There came one over in which two runs were scored. Arlott: 'Well, it's high carnival here at The Oval. Two runs off the over. The crowd are going wild. There'll be a pitch invasion any moment . . .' I was laughing so hard, I couldn't drive. Had to pull over and stop.

G. St. A. Sobers playing for them in Bermuda... which Riding is Barbados in?

Better ODI average too... and better economy rate!

This makes me proud to be a Yorkshireman 😂

These yes men pundits today never constructively criticise players when they’re not delivering. Geoffrey always did and was qualified to.

Now that's what I call funny 🤣🤣🤣

Huge thanks Fred for uploading...brilliant

256 and they dropped me for it

amazing amazing amazing...on repeat on my playlist

This is interesting stuff. I would have watched most of this as a kid on school holidays. Hurst and Hogg (and to an extent Dymock) bowled well. It was in batting, fielding and keeping that Australia struggled. When McLean drops that chance off Hogg at around the 47 minute mark you can see his footwork is horrible - his left leg starts going away from the ball, then he lunges back to the right but he's there too late and grasses it. He would have been better off leaving it to Cosier. Marsh would have gobbled it up. England were close to full strength and were far too good. When Australia's WSC players were back the following year they comfortably beat basically the same England team, but the games were much more competitive.

They had cameras at both ends but only normally showed play from one end. How quaint.

Zzzzzzz...🥱🥱 😴😴

😂 love this. As an AB fan, and Māori, I take it in the spirit that it was performed. I think it light-hearted, but good-hearted fun.

A definite case of cultural appropriation, this is discrimination of the yorkshireman class and a disrespectful generalisation... just because a person comes from Yorkshire it does not mean they own whippet. He has a chinchilla.

Immediate deportation and arrest on landing for hate crimes 😂

I was discussing TMS with a friend a few weeks back and we came to the conclusion it was the first podcast.

there are so many missing in this one. I remember during a match of Indian, there was a wicketkeeper called Deepdas Gupta who missed catches.. Boycott said "his hands are like non-stick pans, nothing sticks". Once during 2001 series, Jason GIllispee misfielded on third man in a weird way.. and Boycott said "look at Gillispee, trying to stop the ball and flapping like a girl', Nicky Boje from South Africa missed a very easy catch.. Boycott said "If Nicky Boje is married, you don't want him to handle babies"/

insulting fellow commentator "after all the nonsense u talked about the pitch"..rofl

Arlott was a poet, with a profound love for and knowledge of the game which shone through all his commentaries. Test Match Special in the days of Arlott, Johnston, Trueman etc. was without doubt the finest sports commentary programme of all time

Still remember that weird synth intro music like it was yesterday!

Rohit Sharma

Aaj Rohit ne naara

Simply hilarious !! Also a great illustration how how one's ego can leave them vulnerable to this kind of tomfoolery. I'm an admirer of Sir Geoffrey's, although I agree that he frequently batted in selfish and pedestrian fashion. But if the batsman's primary objective is to make as many runs as possible before being dismissed, by occupying the crease and playing each ball as described in the good ole MCC coaching book - as was thought to be the case during Boycott's era - then he's one of the greatest of all time. You win 5-day matches by taking 20 wickets, and Geoffrey's was always one of the hardest to capture. The numbers don't lie. He has the highest batting average (56.83) of ANY batsman who has played more than 500 first class innings, and yet he maintained that average over more than 1,000 innings and 19 years. And this was opening the batting day in and out against the new ball in English conditions where the ball swings and seams as much as anywhere else in the world, and where each county had at least one overseas test paceman (Roberts, Holding, Garner, Croft, Daniel, Clarke, Wasim, Procter, Marshall, Hadlee, Rice, Imran, Sarfraz, Mackenzie, Patterson, etc etc) as well as locals like Snow, Willis, Botham, Arnold, Hendrick, Greig, Brown, Higgs, Cottam, Jackman, Selvey, Cartwright, Graham (the only bowler to ever dismiss Boycott for a pair), all playing county cricket. For the first 15 years of Boycott’s career, helmets were unavailable. And of course back then they played with wafer thin bats compared with those that are used today: here's Barry Richards comparing the bat he used to make 325* in a 5½ hour day back in a 1970 Sheffield Shield match, with that used nowadays by David Warner www.cricketcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cl_1010.jpg Anyway, Boycott’s average also compares very favorably alongside other notable English openers of various periods: Hobbs (50.70), Sutcliffe (52.02), Hutton (55.51), Amiss (42.86), Gooch (49.01), Atherton (40.83), Cook (47.05). Back in the 1970s, Barry Richards averaged 50.50 opening for Hampshire for 11 years, Glenn Turner averaged 52 playing for Worcestershire for 15 years, Gordon Greenidge averaged 35.19 for Hampshire 1970-75. England lost only 20 test matches out of the 108 that Boycott played in, and they lost none of the 22 test matches in which he made a century. If you couldn’t get Boycott out, you couldn’t beat England.

Thanks for the upload 👍 According to Cricinfo, Boycott scored 77 off 337 balls with only one 4!

There would be no place in today's cricket for someone like John Arlott, a non-professional cricketer who was a poet with words. Cricket is the poorer for the loss of different voices. Today we are treated to the endless hindsights and 'wisdom' of former professional cricketers turned commentators, many of whom are as inarticulate in front of a microphone as they were talented when out in the middle.

If Bob Willis was batting at 9 then that was a very long tail for England.

One of the best things to come out of the packer series was it gave us the chance to see bob taylors craftsmanship and technique behind the wicket 2:16:46

Ikky thum

I am missing the voice of great commentary

the only thing that'll make this funnier is the constant rain in england

More like: "Fred Trueman Taking Too Much as Per Bloody Usual."

"Oh, shut up, elephant snout!"

Were Thompson, Lillie, Marsh etc all not in the team due to joining Kerry Packers Cricket Circus? Grieg as well?

Weird, patronising piece. No wonder the BBC gets stick for being London-centric.

Dire, dreadful bowling it must be said. Robinson just keeps banging it in at 80 mph, and keeps getting dispatched. No wonder he didn’t get picked for England this summer.

Wow, this was fantastic! My man! I’m a Yank and Boycott was my only source for proper cricket instruction, he taught me how to bat properly! I’ve always loved his Yorkshire attitude and “single-mindedness”, he valued his wicket like a proper opener should. So awesome to see this interview, fascinating discussion, thanks for uploading! Cheers

To have that man’s single mindedness and courage to be the best over three decades playing cricket is remarkable. What Boycott had and has is a superpower.

That was risky on live broadcasting. Well executed though.

Universal boss

Monty being asked a question about The Full Monty, nice one question writers 😅

And it's Lance Gibbs from the pavilion ,and he puts a little bit more of air into that one. WI tour of England 1963. The venue was Old Trafford,Manchester.

"I think I see what Aggers is alluding to here....." - smoothly done 😂😂😂

Classic!