Famous Cricketers No 69 - G. Boycott

lbw b M.A.Holding 86 391-7 468. Yorkshire v West Indians, Headingley, July 19, 20, 21 (West Indians won by 58 runs) b D.R.Parry 53 194-5d 5 1 6 0 342-3d c S.F.A.Bacchus b M.A.Holding 4 209 - - - - 119-1d 469. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Kennington Oval, July 24, 25, (26), 28, 29 (Match drawn) run out 53 370 265 c D.L.Murray b C.E.H.Croft 5 209-9d 470. Yorkshire v Derbyshire, Chesterfield, August 2, 4, 5 (Match drawn) run out 29 223 - - - - 147 2 0 6 0 314-8d 471. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Headingley, August (7), 8, 9, (11), 12 (Match drawn) c A.I.Kallicharran b M.A.Holding 4 143 245 c A.I.Kallicharran b C.E.H.Croft 47 227-6 472. Yorkshire v Lancashire, Old Trafford, August 23, 25, 26 (Lancashire won by three wickets) c and b D.Lloyd 135 346-7 310-5 1 c D.Lloyd b W.Hogg 3 265-5d 305-7 1 473. ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA, Lord’s, August 28, 29, 30, September 1, 2 (Match drawn) c R.W.Marsh b D.K.Lillee 62 205 385-5d not out 128 244-3 189-4d 474. Yorkshire v Derbyshire, Scarborough, September 3, 4, 5 (Match drawn) not out 154 338-6 136 180-7 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches (W I) 5 10 1 368 86 40.88 - 3 - Test match (Aus) 1 2 1 190 128* 190.00 1 1 - Championship 9 13 2 572 154* 52.00 2 2 10 Other Yorkshire matches 2 3 0 134 77 44.66 - 2 4 Season 17 28 4 1264 154* 52.66 3 8 14 Career 474 782 119 37624 261* 56.74 120 181 198 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Test matches (W I) 7 2 11 0 - - Championship 28 7 55 2 1-4 27.50 Other Yorkshire matches 16 6 16 2 2-10 8.00 Season (6-ball) 51 15 82 4 2-10 20.50 Career (6-ball) 420.3 143 } 1215 36 4-14 33.75 (8-ball) 56.4 6 1980/81 - England in the West Indies At the age of 40 Boycott made his third tour to the West Indies. Although his batting was inevitably not as outstanding as on his earlier trips he still managed 818 first-class runs at an average of 54.53. Political upheaval caused the cancellation of the Guyana Test and the sad death of Ken Barrington during the Barbados Test match naturally had an effect on the whole team. Boycott began the tour by scoring 87 in each innings against the President’s Young West Indies XI and in eight completed first-class innings outside the Test matches he exceeded 50 in six of them without ever going on to score a hundred. A defiant 70 in the second innings of the first Test failed to save England from an innings defeat and in Barbados Holding removed him for scores of 0 and 1 with some of the most menacing fast bowling in Test match history. Typically Boycott fought back to score his twentieth Test century in the next Test at Antigua. His unbeaten 104 in an opening stand of 144 with Gooch helped England to draw the match. He finished the Test series with 295 runs at an average of 42.14. 46