Geoffrey Boycott is undoubtedly one of England's greatest ever
batsmen. Playing 108 Test matches between 1964 and 1982, the hugely
controversial opener scored a then record 8,114 runs at 47.72 - the
highest completed average of any English player since 1970 -
against some of the greatest bowlers the world has ever seen. When
the first lockdown came, finding himself without cricket for the
first time in his life, Geoffrey Boycott sat down and began to
write a retrospective warts-and-all diary of each of his Test match
appearances. It is illuminating and unsparing, characterised by
Boycott's astonishing memory, famous forthrightness and
unvarnished, sometimes lacerating, honesty. That 100,000 word
document forms the basis for Being Geoffrey Boycott, a device that
takes the reader inside Geoffrey's head and back through cricket
history, presenting a unique portrait of the internal and external
forces that compelled him from a pit village in Yorkshire to the
pinnacle of the world game. Now 81 and still one of the most
recognisable cricketers England has ever produced, Boycott has
teamed up with award-winning author Jon Hotten in this catalogue of
his tumultuous time with the national side. Dropped for scoring a
slow double hundred, making himself unavailable to play for England
for several years, captain for eight seasons of a group of strong,
stroppy and extremely talented players at Yorkshire, bringing up
his hundredth hundred at Headingley against the Old Enemy, seeing
David Gower and Ian Botham emerge as future greats, playing under
Mike Brearley in the 1981 Ashes, in this enlightening book Boycott
reveals a host of never-before-heard details regarding his peers
and his playing days.
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