A world class actor couldn't have done it more convincingly. No hype, often not looking at Boycott, and not even recognizing it effected him for several minutes. As beautifully and elegantly played as any off drive through the covers for four.
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
I was pottering in the greenhouse and listening to TMS. As i came in to the house and the wind up was revealed my wife and kids came running to see what i was laughing at. How do you explain a 10 minute wind up 🤣
In my low spirits I enjoy listening Boycott,Aagnw commentaary on you tube! Today my prayers for speedy recovery of Sir Boycott from cancer he is battling in hospital
“You invited me under false pretences” that line from Aggers is by far my favourite! Very impressed with all of them keeping straight faces, good for Boycs taking it well at the end
Hehe indeed brilliant all round. Why 🏏 friendships & banter can not be beaten. Indeed Sir Geoffrey took it VERY well & in good humour. Not many would. Bring live on air too! Brilliant.
If that's Boycott taking it well, I'd hate to see him taking anything badly. I seem to recall that he was spitting blood when Botham ran him out on purpose at Christchurch in 1978 when Boycott had raced to 26 off 80 balls and England needed quick runs for a chance to beat NZ and level the series. "Wot 'ave yer dun, wot 'ave yer dun?" bleated Boycott. "I've run you out, you ****" was the reply "Worrabout mi average?" wailed the (very) temporary England captain - whose 77 off a mere 302 balls in the first Test is probably still talked about sadly among insomniacs in Christchurch, wishing the home VCR had been on general sale just a little earlier.
Aggers may not have been one of England's best Test cricketers. He did, however, soften up one of England's greatest batsmen of all time and turned him into a fantastic and loveable commentator for us all to learn from and enjoy.
Yes - he did it perfectly, as Aggers was always such the perfect English gent and so eminently even handed and reasonable, that it softened Geoffrey's rough edges it is incredibly hard to be curt and short tempered with someone you respect and you call a friend where he is so placcied and even tempered, masterful job by JA.
Just the best wind up ever….beautifully executed.Boycott’s changing expressions throughout were a picture.So proud to have done the 100th hundred at his beloved Headingley
Cracks me up every time. Brilliant how Aggers and the rest of the team gradually build up to the realization that the Yorkshire Brick Wall has lost his 100th 100. Priceless reaction!
"You've knocked out all those plates!" "Where was your hundredth hundred? Faisalabad?" "I've been invited under false pretences" How he kept a straight face is beyond me! Each line is like a ball beating the bat, and then the last one skittles the stumps. *Chefs kiss*
Fair play to Boycott, he did admire the joke, he can praise where praise is due, and that was quality, dead pan and delivered as cunningly as an over from Warnie into the bowlers rough on day five.
This is just one reason why Test cricket is so special. T20 cricket (and even 50-over cricket in some respects) doesn't allow the time for gold like this to take place!
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
Aggers deserves an Oscar; Andrew for best supporting actor; Adam Mountford for being the greatest producer, and giggler, of our generation; and Sir Geoffrey, for taking it on the chin. Plus the WordSmith - now head of selectors - for bringing the mirth back down to earth with a couple of very gentle and elegant gags... Joy, pure esoteric joy.
Amazingly subtle - the way Aggers keeps watching the next delivery while same time up-dating on the 'press release' is brilliant. As good as scripted. How to hook a big fish....
That was truly fantastic. A tour-de-force from Boycott over desperately trying to not appear "bovvered" when he so clearly, CLEARLY was. How Aggers managed to keep a straight face I have no idea. Brilliant.
It's hard not to imagine that Boycott doesn't wake up often in the middle of the night with a start, exclaiming 'But, me average!' after yet another nightmare.
Boycs can sleep soundly in his bed proud of his average hard fought against the all time fastest bowlers in the world trying to take his head off hurt him for real often on dodgy uncovered pitches with proper over rates and his average earned when boundaries were worth value not the jokes we have now!!!
@@1414yorks Except that he didn't face Lillee and Thompson at their fastest in the 74-75 ashes series, nor Holding and Roberts in 1976, because of his self-imposed exile from the England test team. Instead, England had to call up a couple of forty-something players in Colin Cowdery and Brian Close, who were well past their prime but willing to put their bodies on the line. I have a lot of admiration for his stubborn batting, but he was an awkward so and so, and he didn't always serve his country as well as he could have done.
Amazing how Aggers keeps up the match commentary while stirring the pot slowly between each ball. Brilliant. Must be Wisdens greatest wind ups of all time.
It comes across as spontaneous but there must have been a lot of planning to get this one right. Aggers has improved at keeping a straight face since he corpsed during the legover incident.
The subtlety of the little digs during this prank from aggers is pure class. You can literally see boycotts cogs turning. Drip feeding the situation aswell.😆
@@stephenholmes1036 boys these days are not allowed to have male role models and this type of humour has been taken from us. Commentaries are dominated by women who have never played male test cricket which means they can’t tell Geoffrey stories about legends he has played with. It’s a shame. Wokism is dominating commentary boxes these days. And even though they are good. They are not the same. I reckon that’s why Geoffrey left. Banter went out of the window
“Let’s see if this is the one we’ve been waiting for...” This is absolutely brilliant from Aggers, no matter how many times I hear it it’s just delicious from start to finish.
Agnew very nearly blows it by corpsing in the first 30 seconds but once he gets in to it it becomes a masterclass of acting! The man should be a professional spy!
This is the best wind up ever! The amount of back story, plus statistics to make it look absolutely legitimate and plausible is brilliant. Hats off to whoever brainwave it was.
Whatever anyone thinks of Boycott. His record speaks for itself. He was a world class batsman, who held England together, when the rest of the innings was falling apart.
I’m amazed they keep it going for 10 minutes. How they let it build and build, with its implications for Geoffrey coming later. I would have folded within minutes if I did this. A fantastic prank
Hahahahah awesome, I saw Aggers on the TMS live tour and he described the background to this stitch up: the planning and effort that went into it with the headed letter, the wording/quotes and it coming through the fax machine etc and them all keeping straight faces for so long (somehow) is awesome 😂
@@ianbetts4435 Not to the extent that a joke about removing geoff boycott's test records would be censored. We aren't living in an age of suppression like some would make out.
I actually listened to this live at work........was crying with laughter at the end. Amazing job by Aggers to keep a straight face all the way through.
I watch this just about every day. It's absolutely brilliant. There is just as much memorabilia on the internet for Boycott's Faisalabad hundredth hundred as his Headingley hundredth hundred.
Whatever people say about Geoffrey Boycott he remains my favourite cricketer of all time......and I was there for the 100th hundred......a great moment in time......
Andrew , my favourite cricketer and also commentator/ analyst too. I sadly missed his 100th 100, in persin, at Headingly, but saw it on TV. I was there for Geoffs first innings in 1964. A fine debut innings of 47 against Australia at Trent Bridge. His first century was at The Oval against Australia, later that year.
Someone did "knock out" some Faisalabad 100th 100 plates after this, and Boycott actually autographed them, so he appreciated the quality of the wind-up. A great piece of work by Aggers.
Well bowled Aggers! Well bowled also Toby Rowland Jones and Jimmy Anderson for bowling incident free overs so as not to spoil the fun! Truly a great day for cricket and humanity! 😁👍
This really is outstanding. The thought, the effort, the preparation. The slow build up during the cricket, little by little, piece by piece. Boycott trying so hard not to care, aggers poking proding slowly but surely ramping the annoyance. It is one of the greatest wind ups ever. As for "you invited me under false pretences" woooow
I listened to this live on 5live sports extra and it’s great to watch it back. It’s so funny to watch Aggers, especially as he almost cracks up throughout the wind up. Ace. Long live TMS!
yes and I was sat in my car listen as had just got home thinking that the changes were ridiculous, not because of the racist arrogant Boycott, but the stupidity of the revisionist interference. You could see on the clip he's trying to work out how it affects him personaly
That has kept popping up on my TH-cam feed and I eventually watched it. Absolutely fantastic, I'm not sure how Aggers managed to keep a straight face, got to love Sir Geoffrey :)
Goes with 'Jonner's revenge' as the two best cricket wind ups ever. Love listening t both when driving in the car and no matter how many times I hear them, I am tears laughing each and every time. Priceless.
All good clean fun. They knew which "bait" to use and Geoffrey Boycott took it. The format of a test match allowed the tension to build over time, bit y bit until Aggers lets Boycott know it's a wind-up. How Aggers maintained his composure for so long, I'll never know. In the "legover" with Jonners he lasted about a second before collapsing into a fit of giggles.
This is what sets TMS apart. Test cricket gives you time to fill in time when there isn't a lot going on. So they could stretch it out and Aggers delivering the punchline just as his shift ends so there's no chance of a riposte from Boycott.
This was absolutely brilliant! And don't forget the cameo in all this played by 'Roland Jones' ... wouldn't have been as authentic as this without the part played by.... 'Roland Jones' on the field!
Really laughed the first time I saw this, but even funnier to watch their faces second time round. Boycott trying (unconvincingly) to pretend that he isn't all that bothered, and I love the mock vagueness in Agnew's questions about those 'unofficial' matches. "You played in those matches didn't you Geoffrey?", "So, those hundreds won't count?", "Which one was Geoffrey Boycott's proper, authentic, hundredth hundred?".
Aggers and Boycott, I can't help but love them. Cricket is lucky to have such characters (and many more, Bumble etc) in the game. Thanks for uploading.
9:15 I love the 2 second delay it takes Geoffrey's mind to compute being told it was a complete wind up! Absolutey masterclass in Wind-uppery from Agnew and the rest of TMS!
Just like a test match, the tension builds and builds until someone cracks. The following year I saw Sir Geoffrey and Aggers at a theatre. I can tell you that Sir Geoffrey definitely got his own back.
Classic stuff. Boycott does have a chip on his shoulder and in my opinion, he has a right to feel that way. His test career must be judged against his peers in the time when when he played. As a teenager growing up in Guyana in the 70s, to hear Boycott's name was magic to my ear. No, he was not as great Sobers or Kanhai, but you knew it was Test cricket when he was playing. It had to be, because, as an opener he was facing the fastest bowlers in the world in every test match. He may not have been the fastest scorer, but, he had the temperament of a true Test batsman.
I agree. If there was a batsman you'd want to defend for your life , Boycs was the guy. Runs didnt really matter to him , staying at the crease and not throwing his wicket away was his gig.
Geoff was a superb batsman, but the debate of whether he played for the good of his team or for his own place in the record books will always be out there, Raymond Illingworth and Brian Close were always on the fence with the Boycott legacy.
I will never tire of watching this. Still hilarious years later. 😂
Me too, watching it again. And you cannot fast forward, you have to take it all in to get the real result. Aggers is brilliant.
A world class actor couldn't have done it more convincingly. No hype, often not looking at Boycott, and not even recognizing it effected him for several minutes. As beautifully and elegantly played as any off drive through the covers for four.
Same here. "But you knocked out all those plates!" 🤣
same
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
World class wind up. I come back and watch this every so often and it brightens my day. 😂
Me too...
Same here 😂
I was pottering in the greenhouse and listening to TMS. As i came in to the house and the wind up was revealed my wife and kids came running to see what i was laughing at. How do you explain a 10 minute wind up 🤣
Me today
"You invited me under false pretenses" ;-)
I am Irish. Not a great cricketing nation. But many of us love Test matches. It is the quintissential english game. Its wonderful.
You lot aren't bad these days either
@@jjrc7424💯1 day in particular
In my low spirits I enjoy listening Boycott,Aagnw commentaary on you tube! Today my prayers for speedy recovery of Sir Boycott from cancer he is battling in hospital
“You invited me under false pretences” that line from Aggers is by far my favourite! Very impressed with all of them keeping straight faces, good for Boycs taking it well at the end
"You're going to have to can it".
Aggers is an absolute savage 😂😂😂
Hehe indeed brilliant all round. Why 🏏 friendships & banter can not be beaten. Indeed Sir Geoffrey took it VERY well & in good humour. Not many would. Bring live on air too! Brilliant.
*being live on air too
If that's Boycott taking it well, I'd hate to see him taking anything badly. I seem to recall that he was spitting blood when Botham ran him out on purpose at Christchurch in 1978 when Boycott had raced to 26 off 80 balls and England needed quick runs for a chance to beat NZ and level the series.
"Wot 'ave yer dun, wot 'ave yer dun?" bleated Boycott.
"I've run you out, you ****" was the reply
"Worrabout mi average?" wailed the (very) temporary England captain - whose 77 off a mere 302 balls in the first Test is probably still talked about sadly among insomniacs in Christchurch, wishing the home VCR had been on general sale just a little earlier.
Aggers may not have been one of England's best Test cricketers. He did, however, soften up one of England's greatest batsmen of all time and turned him into a fantastic and loveable commentator for us all to learn from and enjoy.
You're absolutely right 👍
Onya Geoffrey. What a champion batsman and person you are. Love and respect from Oz
@@Horamod I was expecting something a bit stronger than "you muppet".....YUKKARN!
@@101stuey Or fahn cahn !
Yes - he did it perfectly, as Aggers was always such the perfect English gent and so eminently even handed and reasonable, that it softened Geoffrey's rough edges it is incredibly hard to be curt and short tempered with someone you respect and you call a friend where he is so placcied and even tempered, masterful job by JA.
I can watch this once a day and not get bored. It's utter British perfection.
Just the best wind up ever….beautifully executed.Boycott’s changing expressions throughout were a picture.So proud to have done the 100th hundred at his beloved Headingley
Cracks me up every time. Brilliant how Aggers and the rest of the team gradually build up to the realization that the Yorkshire Brick Wall has lost his 100th 100. Priceless reaction!
And to be fair to Boycott he eventually took it well
I was there at headingley in 77 , 191 caught Marsh bowled Pascoe , brilliant 5 days !
"You've knocked out all those plates!"
"Where was your hundredth hundred? Faisalabad?"
"I've been invited under false pretences"
How he kept a straight face is beyond me! Each line is like a ball beating the bat, and then the last one skittles the stumps. *Chefs kiss*
'A great day for cricket and humanity". 🤣 Brilliant.
Fair play to Boycott, he did admire the joke, he can praise where praise is due, and that was quality, dead pan and delivered as cunningly as an over from Warnie into the bowlers rough on day five.
This is why cricket on the radio by the Test Match Special team is the best. Who needs tv coverage when you have this genius.
Love them both and I never get tired of this. It's one of the best wind ups I've ever seen.
Simply, this is the greatest piece of cricket radio ever. I love it
This is just one reason why Test cricket is so special. T20 cricket (and even 50-over cricket in some respects) doesn't allow the time for gold like this to take place!
victorytide In no other sport would someone say sincerely that four hours is just not enough.
Yeah, the best thing about working in Australia in summer is that for 6 hours of your work day you can listen to banter and cricket.
Absolutely correct ! Test cricket commentary is a joy to listen & watch
It has been one of the greatest parts of my life.
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
I would not play poker against Jonathon Agnew.
Aggers deserves an Oscar; Andrew for best supporting actor; Adam Mountford for being the greatest producer, and giggler, of our generation; and Sir Geoffrey, for taking it on the chin. Plus the WordSmith - now head of selectors - for bringing the mirth back down to earth with a couple of very gentle and elegant gags... Joy, pure esoteric joy.
@@timmay444 ..... what's the matter with you now ?
Had to Google it eh?
Thick as pig shit
@@timmay444 ..... now you turn to copy n paste after Google did its thing....
Hook, line n sinker😉
Well said. Absolutely superb. The TMS team make my summer as I drive up and down the country. 👍🏻
well put!
the wordsmith is an idiot
One of my favourite bits of footage ever, I watch it at least once a week.
Amazingly subtle - the way Aggers keeps watching the next delivery while same time up-dating on the 'press release' is brilliant. As good as scripted. How to hook a big fish....
He pushed those buttons, just like you used to teach me
Geoffrey wasn’t engaged with this at all, utterly amateurish compared with Johnners Revenge
The eternal line of TMS is "and there's no run" Christopher Martin Jenkins used to have a metronomic way of saying it
Mike Best oh I miss dear old CMJ
@@Pumpernickellll Maybe I'm wrong but I always associate it with Blowers: "And. There. Is. No. Run."
That was truly fantastic. A tour-de-force from Boycott over desperately trying to not appear "bovvered" when he so clearly, CLEARLY was. How Aggers managed to keep a straight face I have no idea. Brilliant.
The greatest wind up ever, Aggers was brilliant. I was listening live driving around the M25 in England.
It's hard not to imagine that Boycott doesn't wake up often in the middle of the night with a start, exclaiming 'But, me average!' after yet another nightmare.
Michael and you play/played for who?
Boycs can sleep soundly in his bed proud of his average hard fought against the all time fastest bowlers
in the world trying to take his head off hurt him for real often on dodgy uncovered pitches with proper
over rates and his average earned when boundaries were worth value not the jokes we have now!!!
Michael Jenkins codswallop, he barely believed him. This is the most overrated wind up of all time. It’s nothing compared to Johnners Revenge
@@1414yorks Except that he didn't face Lillee and Thompson at their fastest in the 74-75 ashes series, nor Holding and Roberts in 1976, because of his self-imposed exile from the England test team. Instead, England had to call up a couple of forty-something players in Colin Cowdery and Brian Close, who were well past their prime but willing to put their bodies on the line. I have a lot of admiration for his stubborn batting, but he was an awkward so and so, and he didn't always serve his country as well as he could have done.
More like sweating over the amount of batting partners he's watched over his career edge one to slip on 26....play straight..stay in... boycott is god
Amazing how Aggers keeps up the match commentary while stirring the pot slowly between each ball. Brilliant. Must be Wisdens greatest wind ups of all time.
It comes across as spontaneous but there must have been a lot of planning to get this one right. Aggers has improved at keeping a straight face since he corpsed during the legover incident.
I was listening to this when it was on in the car, just brilliant. Best TMS wind-up ever😁😁
The subtlety of the little digs during this prank from aggers is pure class. You can literally see boycotts cogs turning. Drip feeding the situation aswell.😆
Although it comes across as spontaneous, this wind-up probably took hours of planning.
I miss Boycott on TMS. He read the game well and him and Aggers were brilliant.
Tms is not the same.
He is too white too male too heterosexual I’m afraid 😧
We are all dinosaurs 🦕 and going to be expunged from history
Agreed. Blowers too. Spoiled we have all been.
@@davideckersley9930 David its been ruined
@@stephenholmes1036 boys these days are not allowed to have male role models and this type of humour has been taken from us.
Commentaries are dominated by women who have never played male test cricket which means they can’t tell Geoffrey stories about legends he has played with. It’s a shame.
Wokism is dominating commentary boxes these days.
And even though they are good. They are not the same.
I reckon that’s why Geoffrey left. Banter went out of the window
This was fantastic! Aggers plays it so well, Boycott bites and then the punchline. Bravo Aggers.
“Let’s see if this is the one we’ve been waiting for...”
This is absolutely brilliant from Aggers, no matter how many times I hear it it’s just delicious from start to finish.
"Done like a kipper"..brilliant.
What a shame we'll never see Agnew play 'carrot in a box' with Sean Lock.
hahaha, good shout!
I watch this clip quite regularly and it never fails to bring a smile to my face,a comedy gem
This is such a wonderful life-affirming moment. Pitch perfect from everyone involved.
There's a great moment that's unfortunately been cut off where Ed Smith tells Geoffrey 'you could come out of retirement'... pure gold.
You think it’s over and Ed comes in grinning with more to add 😂
"Broad's getting ready to bowl. They're not going to take his records away..."
Marvellous
Agnew very nearly blows it by corpsing in the first 30 seconds but once he gets in to it it becomes a masterclass of acting! The man should be a professional spy!
This is the best wind up ever! The amount of back story, plus statistics to make it look absolutely legitimate and plausible is brilliant. Hats off to whoever brainwave it was.
agreed, watched it about 10 times.
lol I don't know who the fella is in the background but he seems to be having a riot of a laugh as it all proceeds
The relief on Boycott's face when he was told it was a wind up.
Whatever anyone thinks of Boycott. His record speaks for itself. He was a world class batsman, who held England together, when the rest of the innings was falling apart.
I fell for it too. Brilliant piece of theatre that. And the replacement commentator, priceless follow up.
I love how GB pretends not to care but spends most of the time trying to peer at the press release cos he can't believe he's been robbed of a ton.
Excellent observation! Re watched it with your comment in mind and cried with laughter.
@@DougieL the slow burn was epic, GB slowly getting more irritated as it sank in 😂😂
I’m amazed they keep it going for 10 minutes. How they let it build and build, with its implications for Geoffrey coming later. I would have folded within minutes if I did this. A fantastic prank
Totally agree. The young bloke at the back really enjoyed it. Boycott can dish it out as well as take it.
I cannot believe Aggers managed to keep a straight face. His delivery is absolutely perfect.
The pacing is great. It just slowly builds and builds.
Hahahahah awesome, I saw Aggers on the TMS live tour and he described the background to this stitch up: the planning and effort that went into it with the headed letter, the wording/quotes and it coming through the fax machine etc and them all keeping straight faces for so long (somehow) is awesome 😂
'Anderson, just outside the off stump and there's no run'.
Jimmy playing his part perfectly!
Proper British humour. Amazing.
Wouldn't be allowed today. The humour has gone out of TMS in these PC woke days sadly.
@@ianbetts4435 the way this was only 4 years ago and your acting like it's from a 'different era' 😂😂
@@Nico-ss9lr things have moved on a lot in 4 years.
@@ianbetts4435 Not to the extent that a joke about removing geoff boycott's test records would be censored. We aren't living in an age of suppression like some would make out.
@@Nico-ss9lr Geoff Boycott wouldn't even get a gig now on TMS because he's not PC enough.
Genius. And so well executed. The slow revelation of the press release's implications was just subline.
Pure gold. I still come back to watch this for a good giggle! 🙂
I actually listened to this live at work........was crying with laughter at the end. Amazing job by Aggers to keep a straight face all the way through.
I watch this just about every day. It's absolutely brilliant. There is just as much memorabilia on the internet for Boycott's Faisalabad hundredth hundred as his Headingley hundredth hundred.
Made my day. I am gonna watch this again and again. One of the many incomparable things test cricket brings.
Whatever people say about Geoffrey Boycott he remains my favourite cricketer of all time......and I was there for the 100th hundred......a great moment in time......
What? In Feisalabad?
Impressive!
Andrew Butcher
He's an absolute legend.
Fair effort getting to Faisalabad.
At Faisalabad?
Andrew , my favourite cricketer and also commentator/ analyst too.
I sadly missed his 100th 100, in persin, at Headingly, but saw it on TV.
I was there for Geoffs first innings in 1964.
A fine debut innings of 47 against Australia at Trent Bridge.
His first century was at The Oval against Australia, later that year.
Someone did "knock out" some Faisalabad 100th 100 plates after this, and Boycott actually autographed them, so he appreciated the quality of the wind-up. A great piece of work by Aggers.
that's brilliant!
Ha ha ha!! What a great sport Geoffrey is for signing them. Fair play
@@randothol9003 They were spectacularly ugly plates, too.
Fantastic 😂
"never mind Broad" 😂😂
Well bowled Aggers! Well bowled also Toby Rowland Jones and Jimmy Anderson for bowling incident free overs so as not to spoil the fun! Truly a great day for cricket and humanity! 😁👍
I heard this live and was totally taken in. Aggers is a genius and love Ed Smith coming in at the end.
This really is outstanding.
The thought, the effort, the preparation.
The slow build up during the cricket, little by little, piece by piece.
Boycott trying so hard not to care, aggers poking proding slowly but surely ramping the annoyance.
It is one of the greatest wind ups ever.
As for "you invited me under false pretences" woooow
"you knocked out all those commemorative plates didn't you?"
😂😂
Done him like a kipper. Phenomenal wind up !!! How Agnew kept a straight face, I will never know.
I wouldn't play poker against Aggers. This wind-up just grew and grew; such subtlety.
The chap at the back is smirking his way through the entire conversation.
Very, VERY well played. This is absolutely golden.
Man, that acting was good. Taking away Boycott's century - priceless
I listened to this live on 5live sports extra and it’s great to watch it back. It’s so funny to watch Aggers, especially as he almost cracks up throughout the wind up. Ace.
Long live TMS!
yes and I was sat in my car listen as had just got home thinking that the changes were ridiculous, not because of the racist arrogant Boycott, but the stupidity of the revisionist interference. You could see on the clip he's trying to work out how it affects him personaly
That has kept popping up on my TH-cam feed and I eventually watched it. Absolutely fantastic, I'm not sure how Aggers managed to keep a straight face, got to love Sir Geoffrey :)
Big Badger same here.. glad I watched it in the end.
Absolutely magnificent! The setup was so expertly done with just the right level of believeablity to hook Boycott.
"You knocked out all those plates", one of so many gems
Please, please, please tell me more of that reference. I'd really like to know. Thanks in advance
ONYA Agger's, you're always a legend here in Australia Mr Boycott.
I saw you and Beefy play against Chappelle and Lillie at the SCG back in the 70's.
Goes with 'Jonner's revenge' as the two best cricket wind ups ever. Love listening t both when driving in the car and no matter how many times I hear them, I am tears laughing each and every time. Priceless.
Jonners Revenge is a thousand times better than this. Fred had Aggers on a string there, sweating buckets, blind panic
"It's also a complete wind-up Geoffrey" Hilarious
Tears of laughter every time I watch this😂😂😂.
I like how Aggers gets a bit nervous at 6:43 when Boycs takes a closer look at the press release himself! This is hilarious 😂
Howling with Laughter - the good old fashioned wind up.... we need to see more of this in our lives.... :-)
All good clean fun. They knew which "bait" to use and Geoffrey Boycott took it. The format of a test match allowed the tension to build over time, bit y bit until Aggers lets Boycott know it's a wind-up. How Aggers maintained his composure for so long, I'll never know. In the "legover" with Jonners he lasted about a second before collapsing into a fit of giggles.
This is what sets TMS apart. Test cricket gives you time to fill in time when there isn't a lot going on. So they could stretch it out and Aggers delivering the punchline just as his shift ends so there's no chance of a riposte from Boycott.
If there was a Nobel Prize for wind-ups this would be top of the list.
Wonderful and gets me every time
Agnew straight-faced does Boycott to shreds. Boycott keeps going 'I don't care, I'm thinking of the others' as if. He only ever thought of himself.
Geoffrey wasn’t interested in the match at all. All he was concerned about was that letter. 😆😆😆
Just like icing on a cake, “it’s a nice letterhead”
The sprinkles on top, absolutely bob on ;o)
This was absolutely brilliant! And don't forget the cameo in all this played by 'Roland Jones' ... wouldn't have been as authentic as this without the part played by.... 'Roland Jones' on the field!
Actually caught this live on the radio, excellent!
I was at work in an office and you could tell, just by watching, who had TMS on their headphones as the gag played out.
English commentary, Radio or tv is second to none. Absolutely brilliant
Really laughed the first time I saw this, but even funnier to watch their faces second time round. Boycott trying (unconvincingly) to pretend that he isn't all that bothered, and I love the mock vagueness in Agnew's questions about those 'unofficial' matches. "You played in those matches didn't you Geoffrey?", "So, those hundreds won't count?", "Which one was Geoffrey Boycott's proper, authentic, hundredth hundred?".
One of the all time great stitch ups. You muppet Agnew!!
Aggers and Boycott, I can't help but love them. Cricket is lucky to have such characters (and many more, Bumble etc) in the game. Thanks for uploading.
"You invited me under false pretences" *spurts beer over keyboard*
9:15 I love the 2 second delay it takes Geoffrey's mind to compute being told it was a complete wind up!
Absolutey masterclass in Wind-uppery from Agnew and the rest of TMS!
They knew how to get to Geoff, hit him right in the averages.
Watch this regularly never gets tired, take a bow Mr. Agnew
I remember listening to this live. And any time since Aggers mentions a press statement, its ohh no, not again
I remember listening to this live..I laughed my arse off...It was fantastic..
well it would have fooled me if i was listening live, you're obviously too smart. lol ;-)
I remember where I was(in a cemetery), one of the truly great sports moments, if not radio, outstanding.
Agnew kept a straight face throughout... good!!!
This is why TMS is a national treasure. 10 mins of pure cricket commentary gold.
One of the greatest wind ups. These guys will be missed behind the microphone.
Watching Henry Moran and Simon Mann behind is the best bit! Kept it together well
Just like a test match, the tension builds and builds until someone cracks. The following year I saw Sir Geoffrey and Aggers at a theatre. I can tell you that Sir Geoffrey definitely got his own back.
I can't stop watching this it gets better and better with every viewing.
I love the young producer's reaction at the back. And how Geoff keeps looking at him for validation.
Classic stuff. Boycott does have a chip on his shoulder and in my opinion, he has a right to feel that way. His test career must be judged against his peers in the time when when he played. As a teenager growing up in Guyana in the 70s, to hear Boycott's name was magic to my ear. No, he was not as great Sobers or Kanhai, but you knew it was Test cricket when he was playing. It had to be, because, as an opener he was facing the fastest bowlers in the world in every test match. He may not have been the fastest scorer, but, he had the temperament of a true Test batsman.
I agree. If there was a batsman you'd want to defend for your life , Boycs was the guy. Runs didnt really matter to him , staying at the crease and not throwing his wicket away was his gig.
Phil Chudley
PREACH!
Mohamed Rahaman
PREACH!
Geoff was a superb batsman, but the debate of whether he played for the good of his team or for his own place in the record books will always be out there, Raymond Illingworth and Brian Close were always on the fence with the Boycott legacy.
@@PHILCHUDS Yes and right too for test cricket . This present lot today think you can play tests like ODI or T20 , bashing from the start .
Aggers, you total genius!
watching this again...just incredible and scary how Aggers keeps it together...all time classic windup...
Every now and again I always come back to this. Perfectly executed wind up from all involved.
Let all matches remain on the record books.
Beautiful - Made me really like Boycott! From an aussie cricket fan