Famous Cricketers No 69 - G. Boycott

570. Yorkshire v Leicestershire, Bramall Lane, July 28, 30, 31 (Match drawn) c J.C.Balderstone b G.J.Parsons 3 303-8d 327-4d 1 run out 74 204-6 265-7d 571. Yorkshire v Leicestershire, Leicester, August 8, 9, 10 (Match drawn) c I.P.Butcher b G.J.Parsons 17 306 206 363-5d 2 572. Yorkshire v Warwickshire, Headingley, August 11, 13, 14 (Warwickshire won by 191 runs) c A.M.Ferreira b C.M.Old 24 153 285 1 not out 55 183 242-7d 1 573. Yorkshire v Glamorgan, Bradford, August 25, 27, 28 (Match drawn) c A.L.Jones b R.C.Ontong 65 283 - - - - 306 not out 16 41-0 1 0 1 0 201 574. Yorkshire v Hampshire, Scarborough, September (5), 6, 7 (Match drawn) not out 46 108-1d 254-6d c M.C.J.Nicholas b N.G.Cowley 39 252-9 155-2d 575. Yorkshire v Sussex, Hove, September 8, 10, 11 (Match drawn) c D.A.Reeve b J.R.T.Barclay77 250-5d 202-4d not out 50 98-2 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Championship 20 35 10 1567 153* 62.68 4 9 13 Career 575 960 149 45777 261* 56.44 143 221 250 Bowling O M R W BB Ave Championship (6-ball) 11 0 25 0 - - Career (6-ball) 528.5 175 } 1430 45 4-14 31.77 (8-ball) 56.4 6 1985 Although Boycott had another highly successful season statistically, his often extremely slow rate of scoring caused a great deal of unfavourable comment. His sixth hundred of the season, 125 not out against Nottinghamshire, was his 149 th first-class hundred and took him level with Herbert Sutcliffe as Yorkshire’s leading century maker. But it was compiled at a dreadfully slow rate. His highest score of the season was 184 against Worcestershire and he shared an opening partnership of 351 with Moxon. This was the highest partnership of his career and Yorkshire’s best since Holmes and Sutcliffe added 555 in 1932. He also “carried his bat” for Yorkshire for the eighth time, making an unbeaten 55 against Nottinghamshire. Boycott’s unbeaten 103 against Warwickshire made him the seventh player to score a 100 hundreds for his County and in a rain-ruined match against the touring Australians, his last against the old enemy, he made an unbeaten 52. Once again he headed Yorkshire’s batting averages and scored over a 1000 runs in a season for the 26th time, to take him level with Jack Hobbs. This has been bettered only by Grace and Woolley (28 times) and Cowdrey and Mead (27 times). Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 576. Yorkshire v Leicestershire, Leicester, April 27, 28, 29 (Match drawn) c M.A.Garnham b G.J.F.Ferris 4 306-5d 170 46-0 577. Yorkshire v Somerset, Headingley, May 29, 30, 31 (Match drawn) c T.Gard b G.V.Palmer 20 383-4d 257 not out 114 223-3d 230-6 578. Yorkshire v Hampshire, Middlesbrough, June 1, 3, 4 (Match drawn) lbw b M.D.Marshall 115 283 341-6d 55