All posts tagged "Geoffrey Boycott"
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/ 1 week agoArise Sir Jimmy Anderson! England cricket legend honoured with a knighthood
Jimmy Anderson has joined the likes of Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Colin Cowdrey, Alec Bedser, Ian Botham, Alastair Cook, Geoffrey Boycott...
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/ 9 months agoSir Geoffrey Boycott successfully undergoes surgery to remove throat tumour
Sir Geoffrey Boycott has undergone a successful operation to remove a tumour from his throat, his family have said. The 83-year-old...
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/ 10 months agoSir Geoffrey Boycott diagnosed with throat cancer for the second time
Former Yorkshire and England batsman Sir Geoffrey Boycott has revealed he has been diagnosed with throat cancer for the second time....
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/ 1 year agoAgnew standing down as BBC cricket correspondent
Jonathan Agnew has announced he will step down as the BBC’s cricket correspondent at the end of the summer, but will...
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/ 7 years agoKohlimania will sweep Surrey, but it will be nothing like Tendulkar joining Yorkshire
Charlie Bennett meets the man who helped numerous stars settle in to life in England
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/ 7 years agoThe WACA – Ugly? Yes, but the Perth ground will be sorely missed
Chris Stocks gives his take on the old concrete crusted Perth ground
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/ 8 years agoIs it double standards?
THE furore that has been building in football over the past month concerning the England women’s team head coach Mark Sampson...
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/ 8 years ago’SIR’ GEOFF HAS PUT HIMSELF ON STICKY WICKET
AS A batsman, Geoffrey Boycott prided himself on a stout defence. Yet even he has acknowledged that the straightest bat cannot...
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/ 8 years agoGeoffrey Boycott makes ‘unreserved apology’ for racist slur about knighthoods
The Test Match Special summariser makes ill-humoured racial remark regarding Sirs
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/ 8 years ago40 years on and the 100th hundred ‘was no piece of cake’, says Geoffrey Boycott
By Guy Williams Forty years ago, last Friday, at Headingley – to be precise at 5.49 in the late afternoon –...
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/ 8 years agoSelf-minded Boycott riled up his team-mates not just opposition bowlers
Peter Hayter explains why, despite his class, Geoffrey Boycott was never the most popular of batsman to play alongside
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/ 8 years agoPringle column: So long Tonker! A leader you had to follow
By Derek Pringle In the Essex dressing rooms of yesteryear, famous for their characters, none was bigger or more boldly defined...
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/ 8 years agoNow tech giants put a speed microchip into bats
A trio of England players are trialling new technology during the Champions Trophy that could lead to improved performances with the bat...
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/ 8 years agoNow tech giants put a speed microchip into bats
By Seth Francis A TRIO of England players will be trialling new technology during the Champions Trophy that could lead to...
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/ 8 years agoYes, even cricket became part of the Sixties vibe
Derek Pringle identifies the start of social change creeping into cricket during the Summer of Love It is 50 years since...
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/ 8 years agoCrumbling plans: how a fielding team’s arduous research of a top batsman can be their own undoing
Imposing: Sir Viv Richards was not a man you would look to ‘rough up’ at the crease (photo: Getty Images) By...
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/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – How Boycs and Edrich set TMS off on flights of fancy…
In common with many others, I wearily stretched out a hand to locate the bedside radio button last week, only to...
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/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11
There are one or two instances in which Wisden‘s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to serious...
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/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Yorkshire – Sunday league winners 1983
By Neil Fissler Raymond Illingworth had a long history in the game of winning trophies, but nobody had expected that the...
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/ 10 years agoWhere are they now? Yorkshire – Gillette Cup winners 1969
By Neil Fissler John Hampshire admits that he did not know it at the time but Yorkshire’s second Gillette Cup win...
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