Famous Cricketers No 69 - G. Boycott

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 4 8 1 312 105 44.57 1 2 2 Other matches 4 6 4 389 101* 194.50 1 4 1 Tour 8 14 5 701 105 77.88 2 6 3 Career 507 841 128 40152 261* 56.31 126 197 209 1981/82 - SAB English Team in South Africa Despite much opposition this team of English cricketers played several matches in South Africa. It was not a successful tour and the players involved received a three year ban from Test cricket. Boycott played in four of the matches accorded first-class status, but his only score of note was 95 in the second innings against Western Province. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 508. SAB English XI v Western Province, Cape Town, March 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) c T.A.Clarke b S.T.Jefferies 20 219 263-8 1 run out 95 225-8 204-7d 509. SAB English XI v South Africa, Johannesburg, March 12, 13, 14, 15 (South Africa won by eight wickets) c S.J.Cook b V.A.P.van der Bijl 5 150 400-7d lbw b V.A.P.van der Bijl 36 283 37-2 510. SAB English XI v South Africa, Cape Town, March 19, 20, 21, 22 (Match drawn) c A.P.Kuiper b A.J.Kourie 16 223 235 c R.V.Jennings b S.T.Jefferies1 249-3d 38-0 511. SAB English XI v South Africa, Durban, March 26, 27, (28), 29 (Match drawn) c R.V.Jennings b V.A.P.van der Bijl 31 311-8d 181-9d 143-2 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Other matches 4 7 0 204 95 29.14 - 1 1 Career 511 848 128 40356 261* 56.05 126 198 210 1982 Boycott accepted a one-year contract and played all his first-class cricket in Championship matches for Yorkshire. The county had another moderate season, finishing tenth in the Championship, with the manager Raymond Illingworth, resuming his playing career as Captain, at the age of 50. Once again Boycott headed Yorkshire’s batting averages with 1,913 runs at an average of 61.70 and scored six Championship hundreds. His contributions were major factors in four of Yorkshire’s five victories. He also had the rare distinction of being on the field throughout both matches against Warwickshire. At Edgbaston he added 149 for the tenth wicket with Stevenson, to break the previous Yorkshire tenth wicket record, held by Lord Hawke and David Hunter since 1898. Boycott began the season with hundreds in successive matches against Northamptonshire and Glamorgan and his fourth hundred of the summer, an unbeaten 152 against Warwickshire, took him past Len Hutton’s 129 moving him up to seventh in the list of first-class century makers. His eight Championship wickets also made this his second most prolific bowling season. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 512. Yorkshire v Northamptonshire, Northampton, May 5, 6, 7 (Match drawn) c G.Cook b N.A.Mallender 138 368-8d 223 1 c A.J.Lamb b B.J.Griffiths 3 189-5d 160-4 50