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

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.

England cricket selectors must learn from World Cup mistakes made and look to the future

Andrew Strauss has made a brave and sensible decision which will help the England selectors to start planning for the next World Cup in four years’ time.

England should start preparing for the next World Cup and that means Andrew Strauss must go

Just after Christmas England were the World Twenty20 champions, had just won the Ashes and were on a high. We were not the best one-day side but we were not the worst and fancied our chances in the World Cup.

England selectors have lost the plot

Before the one-day series started, I had high hopes that England would do well in the World Cup — and might even win the thing. After the Sydney Test, we all thought they were in magnificent shape. They were confident, focused and well organised.

Post Ashes, England are in great shape to dominate the game in all formats

For the first time in the modern era, England are in a position to establish a dynasty of Ashes dominance.

GB’s Ashes thoughts – 4th test

Each day’s play reviewed by Geoff Boycott…

England must sort out batting flaws in order to bounce back against Australia in Ashes series

If the Australians have any brains they should try to produce a bouncy pitch in Melbourne for the Boxing Day Test.

GB’s Ashes thoughts – 3rd test

Each day’s play reviewed by Geoff Boycott…

England’s batsmen lucky to be playing in this era

Now that the dust has settled on the four Test series in South Africa it’s time to take a closer look at England’s performance. On the face of it drawing the rubber 1-1 is a good result but to be honest we could have lost it 3-1 and probably should have. We were lucky enough [...]

Strauss is naïve tactically

In his regular CricInfo ‘Bowl at Boycs’ feature, Geoff Boycott talks on Collingwood’s growth, Pakistan and captains, and the ball-tampering controversy at Newlands…

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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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