Yorkshire and England opener, 8,114 Test runs, and cricket's most fearless voice
CricketThere has never been a cricketer more certain of what he thinks than Sir Geoffrey Boycott. Happily, most of the time he has been right.
Boycott played 108 Tests for England between 1964 and 1982, scoring 8,114 runs at an average of 47.72 and 22 Test centuries, including his hundredth first-class hundred made at Headingley against Australia in 1977, which remains one of the great set pieces in English sport. He played county cricket for Yorkshire for 24 years, captained the club through its most divisive decade, and accumulated 151 first-class hundreds along the way.
In retirement he reinvented himself as the sharpest, funniest, and most quotable voice in the commentary box. His Test Match Special partnership with Jonathan Agnew became appointment listening, and his catchphrases, from 'that's rubbish' to 'my mum could have caught that in her pinny', became part of the fabric of English summer.
Knighted in 2019 for services to cricket, Sir Geoffrey has faced his share of controversy and, more recently, serious illness. Through all of it he has kept talking, kept analysing, and kept telling anyone who will listen exactly how the game should be played.
At Steam Wine Bar he brings six decades of cricket, a straight bat on any question, and the Yorkshire certainty that made him one of the most recognisable voices in the sport.
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