Famous Cricketers No 69 - G. Boycott

Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 475. England XI v President’s Young West Indies XI, Point-a-Pierre, January 23, 24, 25, 26 (England XI won by 190 runs) b R.A.Harper 87 483-6d 320 b R.A.Harper 87 208-5d 181 476. England XI v Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, February 7, 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) b H.J.Joseph 70 355 392-8 477. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Port-of-Spain, February 13, 14, 16, 17, 18 (West Indies won by an innings and 79 runs) c I.V.A.Richards b C.E.H.Croft 30 178 426-9d c D.L.Haynes b M.A.Holding 70 169 478. England XI v Barbados, Bridgetown, March 7, 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) c E.N.Trotman b A.L.Padmore 77 298 334 c C.L.King b S.T.Clarke 13 219-6 479. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Bridgetown, March 13, 14, 15, 17, 18 (West Indies won by 298 runs) b M.A.Holding 0 122 265 c J.Garner b M.A.Holding 1 224 379-7d 1 480. England XI v Leeward Islands, Plymouth, Montserrat, March 21, 22, 23, 24 (England XI won by five wickets) run out 72 251 161 lbw b N.C.Guishard 15 174-5 263 481. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, St. John’s, March 27, 28, 29, (31), April 1 (Match drawn) c D.A.Murray b C.E.H.Croft 38 271 3 2 5 0 468-9d 1 not out 104 234-3 482. England XI v Jamaica, Kingston, April 4, 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c E.H.Mattis b D.Malcolm 98 413 368 not out 4 294-8d 483. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Kingston, April 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 (Match drawn) c D.A.Murray b J.Garner 40 285 442 c J.Garner b C.E.H.Croft 12 302-6d SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 4 8 1 295 104* 42.14 1 1 2 Other matches 5 9 1 523 98 65.37 - 6 - Tour 9 17 2 818 104* 54.53 1 7 2 Career 483 799 121 38442 261* 56.69 121 188 200 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Test matches 3 2 5 0 - - Tour (6-ball) 3 2 5 0 - - Career (6-ball) 423.3 145 } 1220 36 4-14 33.88 (8-ball) 56.4 6 1981 For the first time since 1969 Boycott failed to average over 50 in an English summer. His total of 1,009 first-class runs at an average of 38.80 was his least productive full summer. Relationships at Yorkshire continued to deteriorate and towards the end of the season Boycott was suspended by the manager, Raymond Illingworth. Boycott played in all six Test matches against the Australians in what was to be an absorbing and eventually successful series for England. The second match, at Lord’s, was his hundredth Test match and in the fifth Test at Old Trafford he passed Cowdrey’s record of 7,624 runs for England. In what turned out to be his last Test match against Australia he scored 137 in the first innings and a duck in the second. In 38 Test matches against Australia Boycott scored 2,945 runs at an average of 47.50. His two Championship hundreds were 124 against 47