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Being Geoffrey Boycott

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By (author): Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott is undoubtedly one of Englands greatest ever batsmen. Playing 108 Test matches between 1964 and 1982, the hugely controversial opener scored a then record 8,114 runs at 47.72 the highest completed average of any English player since 1970 against some of the greatest bowlers the world has ever seen. When the first lockdown came, finding himself without cricket for the first time in his life, Geoffrey Boycott sat down and began to write a retrospective warts-and-all diary of each of his Test match appearances. It is illuminating and unsparing, characterised by Boycotts astonishing memory, famous forthrightness and unvarnished, sometimes lacerating, honesty. That 100,000 word document forms the basis for Being Geoffrey Boycott, a device that takes the reader inside Geoffreys head and back through cricket history, presenting a unique portrait of the internal and external forces that compelled him from a pit village in Yorkshire to the pinnacle of the world game. Now 81 and still one of the most recognisable cricketers England has ever produced, Boycott has teamed up with award-winning author Jon Hotten in this catalogue of his tumultuous time with the national side. Dropped for scoring a slow double hundred, making himself unavailable to play for England for several years, captain for eight seasons of a group of strong, stroppy and extremely talented players at Yorkshire, bringing up his hundredth hundred at Headingley against the Old Enemy, seeing David Gower and Ian Botham emerge as future greats, playing under Mike Brearley in the 1981 Ashes, in this enlightening book Boycott reveals a host of never-before-heard details regarding his peers and his playing days. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 500g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: Fairfield Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781915237064

About Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott is one of England's greatest ever cricketer and forged a career as an exceptional opinionated and controversial broadcaster on his retirement. He has previously written a number of books about the game but none since 2014 and none chronicling his Test career. Jon Hotten is an award-winning writer who won the Wisden Book of the Year in 2015. He also wrote The Meaning of the Cricket one of the modern cricket classics.

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