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Countdown to the Ashes | Geoffrey Boycott (Fox Sports)

June 17 2009 at 12:33 PM
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Fox Sports is doing an Ashes countdown. Today's item features a warts-and-all treatment of Geoffrey Boycott. Link


 
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triple centurian
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laughable

June 17 2009, 12:52 PM 

Fox Sports whose first sporting priority is to the AFL, NFL based on their home page and this article written by Scott Heinrich who I must confess to not having heard of previously.

Its easy to pick out all the bad bits so its not really warts and all - just the warts. However, if you play the game for over 20 seasons you tend to have more warts than the average player.

I am sure by contrast the one on Botham will be all about charity raising Headingley heroics, five wicket hauls and blinding catches with legendary drinking exploits and overlook the drug bans, fights with Chappell, poor captaincy and bullying of other players during his time

 
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Barnsley Tyke
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A long and distinguished career

June 17 2009, 2:16 PM 

"Boycott struck a century in his final Ashes Test, at The Oval in 1991, before winding up his international career in India in 1982. But Boycott the cricketer would end where he began: at his beloved Yorkshire."

Hmmm.

Yours,
PedanTyke

 
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