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Embarrassing errors by batsmen and captaincy failings threaten to undo all the good work

Posted on | April 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

Last year Jimmy Anderson said this England team could be the best England team of all time. My answer to that is: “Don’t make us laugh, Jimmy.” You and your mates can’t go on pretending you are the best team in the world now, never mind ever.

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History demands that I steer Yorkshire to the County Championship

Posted on | March 27, 2012 | 3 Comments

Yorkshire have been my life since 1962 when I played my first match for the county. Over the past 50 years I have learned we are steeped in history and I know what the members value and that is championship cricket. Read more

Pakistan v England: Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook’s feat of positive thinking relieves the mental pressure

Posted on | February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment

The big question everybody is asking in this one-day series is why couldn’t England bat like this in the Tests?

If they had, England would have won the series. Alastair Cook has made two hundreds, Kevin Pietersen one. Cook’s batting is full of beautiful strokes and lovely footwork, but it’s Pietersen who is the revelation. Read more

Pakistan spot-fixers have got off lightly despite their jail sentences

Posted on | November 6, 2011 | 1 Comment

I am glad that the spot-fixers are going to jail, but I would have sent them down for longer. You can forget all that stuff about rehabilitation: lock them up, I say, and throw away the key. Read more

GB Statement

Posted on | October 15, 2011 | 6 Comments

During my court case last week concerning a property I own in Sandbanks – Poole, the hearing was to determine whether or not I was in time to bring a claim for damages against a firm of solicitors in Dorset, who had originally dealt with the purchase of the property in 1996. Read more

Looking back on a golden summer for England as India were put to the sword

Posted on | August 26, 2011 | 2 Comments

From Ian Bell’s epic innings to Stuart Broad’s bowling heroics, Geoffrey Boycott looks at the highs of England’s Test cricket summer and what the future holds. Read more

England’s joy cannot disguise gloomy long-term outlook for Test cricket

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 3 Comments

I am thrilled and delighted by the England team’s performances this summer. But it is a shame that they have risen to No 1 in the world in an era when other countries’ Test teams are declining. Read more

England are top of the world and believe they are good enough to stay there

Posted on | August 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

England are top of the world and good enough to stay there. The next step is to beat India 4-0. They have a strong desire to do this and that is the difference between the two sides. One team want to win, the other believe they are going to win. Read more

It is the beginning of the end for India as the world’s No 1 Test team

Posted on | July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment

The England team are in a very healthy situation. They should polish India off in the second Test and press home the advantage they gained at Lord’s, which marked the beginning of the end for India as the world’s No 1 Test team. Read more

ICC’s Dream XI is a joke – it has no credibility

Posted on | July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

The greatest team of all time? You must be joking. It is so biased it has no credibility. It takes no account of the history of the game and the great players of the past. Read more

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    Geoffrey Boycott was a leading light in English cricket for a quarter of a century making over 48,000 runs and scoring 151 hundreds in an often controversial career with Yorkshire and England. After his distinguished peformances on the field he faced the biggest battle of his life – against cancer. He recovered to become an outspoken commentator on the game, his trenchant views on all aspects of cricket at home and abroad highly respected.

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