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.
Boycott is so classy and as a batsman technically correct and amassed runs - the equivalent of a certain Sunil Gavaskar the Indian Opener. However in England Geoffery Boycott faces so many taunts and below the belt jibes, all thanks to his streak for what is seen as selfish play and mean gamesmanship. Gavaskar is quite a mirror image of Boycott in India. Yet even as Boycott faces flak for his several attributes not considered good for the team, Gavaskar is held aloft in India. Shows that India has been ever so starved of Sporting Greats and a Sunny G gets to be treated like a demi God while his exact copy in Britain gets treated like dirt - subjected to mean jibes and taunts. In fact SG was far worse than GB - the 36 not out in 60 overs opening bat in the 1975 World Cup in England showing that in clear terms
Boycott is so classy and as a batsman technically correct and amassed runs - the equivalent of a certain Sunil Gavaskar the Indian Opener. However in England Geoffery Boycott faces so many taunts and below the belt jibes, all thanks to his streak for what is seen as selfish play and mean gamesmanship. Gavaskar is quite a mirror image of Boycott in India. Yet even as Boycott faces flak for his several attributes not considered good for the team, Gavaskar is held aloft in India. Shows that India has been ever so starved of Sporting Greats and a Sunny G gets to be treated like a demi God while his exact copy in Britain gets treated like dirt - subjected to mean jibes and taunts. In fact SG was far worse than GB - the 36 not out in 60 overs opening bat in the 1975 World Cup in England showing that in clear terms
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"I think I see what Aggers is alluding to here....." - smoothly done 😂😂😂
Nice to have a sharper upload of this iconic wind ups !!
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.
i love this 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
That was risky on live broadcasting. Well executed though.
I cried with laughter 😅
To paraphrase his mate Brian Clough this might not be the greatest wind up in the world but it's definately in the top 1
Boycott is so classy and as a batsman technically correct and amassed runs - the equivalent of a certain Sunil Gavaskar the Indian Opener. However in England Geoffery Boycott faces so many taunts and below the belt jibes, all thanks to his streak for what is seen as selfish play and mean gamesmanship. Gavaskar is quite a mirror image of Boycott in India. Yet even as Boycott faces flak for his several attributes not considered good for the team, Gavaskar is held aloft in India. Shows that India has been ever so starved of Sporting Greats and a Sunny G gets to be treated like a demi God while his exact copy in Britain gets treated like dirt - subjected to mean jibes and taunts. In fact SG was far worse than GB - the 36 not out in 60 overs opening bat in the 1975 World Cup in England showing that in clear terms
Classic!
Boycott is so classy and as a batsman technically correct and amassed runs - the equivalent of a certain Sunil Gavaskar the Indian Opener. However in England Geoffery Boycott faces so many taunts and below the belt jibes, all thanks to his streak for what is seen as selfish play and mean gamesmanship. Gavaskar is quite a mirror image of Boycott in India. Yet even as Boycott faces flak for his several attributes not considered good for the team, Gavaskar is held aloft in India. Shows that India has been ever so starved of Sporting Greats and a Sunny G gets to be treated like a demi God while his exact copy in Britain gets treated like dirt - subjected to mean jibes and taunts. In fact SG was far worse than GB - the 36 not out in 60 overs opening bat in the 1975 World Cup in England showing that in clear terms