Famous Cricketers No 69 - G. Boycott

173. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Bridgetown, February 29, March 1, 2, 4, 5 (Match drawn) lbw b G.St A.Sobers 90 449 349 284-6 174. MCC v Windward Islands, St. Lucia, March 8, 9, (11) (Match drawn) c T.M.Findlay b C.Charlemagne 4 215 165 c T.M.Findlay b K.Laurent 12 34-3 175. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Port-of-Spain, March 14, 15, 16, 18, 19 (England won by seven wickets) c S.M.Nurse b W.V.Rodriguez 62 404 526-7d not out 80 215-3 92-2d 176. MCC v Guyana, Georgetown, March 21, 22, 23 (MCC won by ten wickets) run out 60 207 163 not out 50 119-0 160 177. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Georgetown, March 28, 29, 30, April 1, 2, 3 (Match drawn) c D.L.Murray b W.W.Hall 116 371 414 b L.R.Gibbs 30 206-9 264 1 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 5 8 1 463 116 66.14 1 4 1 Other matches 6 8 1 691 243 98.71 3 2 1 Tour 11 16 2 1154 243 82.42 4 6 2 Career 177 292 32 12172 246* 46.81 28 74 70 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Other matches (6-ball) 13.3 5 27 2 1-9 13.50 Career (6 ball) 271.4 90 } 885 20 3-47 44.25 (8-ball) 45 6 1968 Despite a back injury that kept him out of cricket from mid July until the Scarborough festival in early September, Boycott still managed to score 1,487 runs at an average of 64.65. He scored seven hundreds during the season, four of these in successive County Championship matches, with a highest score of 180 not out against Warwickshire. He “carried his bat” for the first time in his career when he made 114 not out against Leicestershire at Bramall Lane. His 86 for Yorkshire against the Australians was their top score and helped them to an innings victory; Yorkshire’s first win against the Australians since 1902. He was less successful in the three Test Matches he played against Australia before his injury, scoring 162 runs at an average of 32.40 with a highest score of 49. On his return, for the last three first-class fixtures at Scarborough, he showed his usual appetite for runs - making with two hundreds and two fifties. He headed the national batting averages by some distance. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 178. Yorkshire v MCC, Lord’s, April 27, (29), (30) (Match drawn) 309-6d 179. Yorkshire v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, May 1, 2, 3 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 66 runs) c C.E.M.Ponniah b G.A.Cottrell 17 268 100 1 102 180. Yorkshire v Hampshire, Harrogate, May 4, 5, (6) (Match drawn) c D.W.White b R.M.H.Cottam 5 41-2 1 0 5 0 122 181. Yorkshire v Somerset, Taunton, May (8), 9, 10 (Match drawn) not out 0 0-0d 67-3d not out 2 2-0 107-4d 182. Yorkshire v Sussex, Bradford, May (11), 13, 14 (Match drawn) c P.J.Graves b A.W.Greig 100 242-5d 96-7 20