Famous Cricketers No 69 - G. Boycott

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 21 37 6 1913 159 61.70 6 10 10 Career 532 885 134 42269 261* 56.28 132 208 220 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Championship (6-ball) 57.2 13 120 8 2-14 15.00 Career (6-ball) 494.5 165 } 1360 44 4-14 30.90 (8-ball) 56.4 6 1983 For the second successive season Boycott narrowly failed to score 2000 first-class runs, finishing with 1941 at an average of 55.45 and adding a further seven hundreds, to take his career total to 139. Yorkshire, however, had a dreadful Championship season, finishing at the foot of the table. Despite finishing top of Yorkshire’s batting averages by some distance, Boycott was sacked at the end of the season, as Yorkshire looked to encourage younger players. Pro-Boycott supporters forced Yorkshire to reverse this decision. He had already been awarded a testimonial in 1984 and it was difficult to see how parting with their most reliable batsman would help improve matters. A defiant unbeaten 112 against Derbyshire was his first hundred of the season and although he “carried his bat” for the sixth time for Yorkshire it failed to save them from defeat. It was mid-July before Boycott struck his best form, with 101against Kent and an unbeaten 214 against Nottinghamshire in the following match. A fortnight later he amassed 541 runs in four successive innings, two of them unbeaten. He made 140 not out and 97 against Gloucestershire, although he was reprimanded for his slow scoring in the first innings. He followed this with 163 and 141 not out against Nottinghamshire. In the first innings he added 248 for the first wicket with Ashley Metcalfe who was making his first-class debut. This was the third time Boycott had scored a hundred in each innings of the same match. His seventh hundred of the season was an unbeaten 169 against Derbyshire which helped Yorkshire to save the match after they followed on 208 behind. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 533. Yorkshire v Worcestershire, Worcester, April 30, May (1), (2) (Match drawn) 79-3 534. Yorkshire v Warwickshire, Headingley, May (4), 5, (6) (Match drawn) b A.M.Ferreira 28 61-1 535. Yorkshire v Northamptonshire, Bradford, May 25, 26, (27) (Match drawn) b D.S.Steele 7 157 257 4 218-7 536. Yorkshire v Lancashire, Old Trafford, May (28), 30, 31 (Match drawn) lbw b I.Folley 18 228 301-4d 24-0 537. Yorkshire v Glamorgan, Middlesbrough, June 4, 6, 7 (Match drawn) b J.G.Thomas 8 125 289-9d c J.Derrick b B.J.Lloyd 69 408-4d 162-7 538. Yorkshire v Leicestershire, Leicester, June 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) c B.F.Davison b N.G.B.Cook 14 202 177 1 c J.F.Steele b N.G.B.Cook 63 281-6d 193-7 1 539. Yorkshire v Hampshire, Southampton, June 18, 20, 21 (Yorkshire won by seven wickets) c M.C.J.Nicholas b T.M.Tremlett 46 432-7d - - - - 83 run out 22 72-3 9 4 15 1 R.A.Smith c R.Illingworth 420 540. Yorkshire v Derbyshire, Bramall Lane, June 22, 23, 24 (Derbyshire won by 22 runs) c I.S.Anderson b D.G.Moir 33 118 225 1 not out 112 233 148 2 541. Yorkshire v Warwickshire, Edgbaston, June 25, 27, 28 (Warwickshire won by one wicket) c Asif Din b R.G.D.Willis 0 239 125 52