This man is a giant of Cricket. I read his book and I totally respect him as a person and a Cricketer. Up there with the very best of what Cricket has to offer. Totally unmatched.
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
Wow, this was fantastic! My man! I’m a Yank and Boycott was my only source for proper cricket instruction, he taught me how to bat properly! I’ve always loved his Yorkshire attitude and “single-mindedness”, he valued his wicket like a proper opener should. So awesome to see this interview, fascinating discussion, thanks for uploading! Cheers
@nimmichagger165
2 жыл бұрын
Plain speaking, focused and passionate. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. His team mates were probably jealous, hence the bad feeling. They didn’t understand that cricket was this man’s whole life, which wasn’t the case for some of his very upper middle class team mates. Love and respect to the one of the very best the game has ever seen. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
@vantheman1238
10 ай бұрын
You’re right they were jealous of Sir Geoffrey. He loved cricket and he loved batting. He loved scoring runs and he made himself the absolute best version of himself on the cricket pitch. Ultimately Boycott got every last ounce and drop of talent and whatever else he had into making himself a great batsman. Final note; Boycott played international cricket across three decades, 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. He played on uncovered wickets and against the best bowlers from all over the world and until 1979 without a helmet. To average slightly under 48 runs per innings as an opening batsman and play the majority of your cricket on green seaming wickets in England that is some achievement. Great player.
@nimmichagger165
10 ай бұрын
@@vantheman1238 I couldn’t agree more.
@ashokrajan5275
10 ай бұрын
Golden words to live by - "i wanted to know how good i was. I could have lived with failure, but could not live with not knowing how good i was going to be". Boycs - much respect! One of the all time greats of the game.
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
Beautiful quote, thank you for emphasizing it! Awesome!
@bevwood3694
2 жыл бұрын
Geoffrey boycott has always been my hero. The greatest opening batsman of a generation. Proud to say I have corresponded with him since I was a schoolboy. Much maligned by the press. Many of whom wanted him to fail. Think he's the greatest. Simple as that.
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
I agree with you, brother. Being maligned by the press like he was really smacks of jealousy. The whole “too cool to care” set doesn’t get it - cricket commands the kind of excellence Boycott pursued, embodied and encouraged in others. I like what you shared, his books taught me how to really bat! Cheers!
@markmeade2937
10 ай бұрын
As an opening Batsman his job is to see through the opening attack and make those vital runs at the start of the innings . This requires full concentration, self will and control . You can see this in the way he talks and his demeanour. Whatever you may think for me one of the most outstanding sportsman with balls of steel . Skill and courage got him to the top , he did things his way like Ian Botham did …..
@vantheman1238
18 күн бұрын
To have that man’s single mindedness and courage to be the best over three decades playing cricket is remarkable. What Boycott had and has is a superpower.
@markhayward7400
11 ай бұрын
As a teenager, attending a Kent v Yorkshire, B&H fixture at Beckenham 40+ years ago i was one of a number of schoolboys lined up by Boycott on the outfield before the match to bowl at him and give him some batting practice. He clearly wasnt on speaking terms that day with his teammates and practiced apart from them. I bowled him a left armer's leg break that bounced twice before going under Boycott's bat and hitting off stump. There were loud hoots of derision from several Yorkshire players who had seen this and my reward was to be banished from those bowling at him! I admired Boycott's batting then and still do. He was/is the best self made opening bat in cricket's history. He was brave too. No-one who watched him facing the WIndies bowlers in '80-1 at the tail end of his test match career could possibly think otherwise
@zmrxy6632
5 ай бұрын
Bounced twice? No ball!
@zodiac6968
2 жыл бұрын
Absolute champion, total respect from Down Under.
@tomben6180
2 жыл бұрын
Proper northern bloke. The true grit of a northern Englishman
@neilcarpenter2669
10 ай бұрын
I wish more English sportsmen had his dedication to attaining excellence.
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
You’re surely not alone😂
@paulworthington8666
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant man.
@Dino-gj9oq
2 жыл бұрын
I love this man. Great great cricketer
@andymoores2090
10 ай бұрын
Ultimate professional, players were jealous of him because they couldn't dedicate themselves to their job in hand and he could. Arise Sir Geoffrey.
@Rhubba
10 ай бұрын
Also the best and fairest of game analysts.
@briangraveling1542
3 жыл бұрын
My boyhood hero, if the great man batted for 5 days I would sit and watch him. I still think the ECB missed a trick by not utilising him as a coach
@jbosco3970
2 жыл бұрын
No - he is a great commentator. Not a coach.
@wespaul9345
Жыл бұрын
You make a good point. He's very incisive. I particularly enjoy the ESPN interviews on fast bowlers. His knowledge of the game is second to none.
@frankford1115
2 жыл бұрын
Proper professional, proper attitude. English cricket could do with half his attitude.
@chriswatson7965
10 ай бұрын
I admire Geoff Boycott for his commitment and dedication. He had only a moderate natural talent and got the world record for the most number of test runs through the intensity of commitment. In short, he was as good a cricketer as he could be, and you can't ask for more.
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
Aye, laddie, not even a wee bit more😉
@nicknewsum1068
2 жыл бұрын
My hero then and still my hero today. Love the Man. The wisest Man in Cricket. Brave and Brilliant. Always loyal to his loyal fans of which there are million. Ok not everyone's cup of tea but I adore him
@robertbolder5319
2 жыл бұрын
A fascinating and complex man.
@nicksmith3245
2 жыл бұрын
He'd walk into the current England team - even using a stick of rhubarb - and I do miss his forthright opinions in the commentary box.
@121music4life
Жыл бұрын
Not woke enough and politically correct for the BBC
@davephillips1874
Жыл бұрын
Great batsman commentator and top man
@mattgarbutt254
10 ай бұрын
Strange how a lot of men just looked older for their age in those days… Parkinson is 42 here, and Boycott’s 36!
@shawshank178
10 ай бұрын
Indeed!
@darrensmith5771
10 ай бұрын
Haircuts😊
@FelixRigg
2 жыл бұрын
Could England have a few more ‘selfish’ batsmen, please? I’ve always admired Sir G’s professionalism, determination and sheer guts.
@rtaj247
10 ай бұрын
Loved ❤ Boycs !
@jimmyodriscoll9273
3 жыл бұрын
11 comments come on ENGLAND he is a legend in CRICKET.🏏😁
@rodmitchell8576
10 ай бұрын
I never found his batting to be boring. His technique was entertaining particularly as he faced the best fast bowlers in the history of the game.
@gavingray5275
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for putting this up Sir, i dont remember this. 2 men who found their true calling, each a master of their art.
@AngusRobins
10 ай бұрын
Absolute legend! ❤
@colinbrown7310
10 ай бұрын
Great man! Speaks a bit like another great man - Cloughie.
@richardjames3356
10 ай бұрын
They became friends around the time Clough took on the Leeds job. Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall listening to those two putting the world to rights!
@user-jc1dm6pq3v
10 ай бұрын
Parky interviewing GB almost as if he doesn't know him, they were team mates at Barnsley CC, Parky opened the batting with Dickie Bird and then came a young upstart called Geoffrey Boycott. We always said if you needed somebody to bat all day to save your life who would you give the bat to?
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
Steve Waugh
@ajs41
2 жыл бұрын
He was batting against the West Indies nearly 5 years after this.
@nicknewsum1068
2 жыл бұрын
Certainly was age 41 and still got hundreds even against Holding after that over
@Inglese001
2 жыл бұрын
@@nicknewsum1068@Andrew JS and Tony Greig said that he was scared of fast bowling!! Guy's a legend
@nicknewsum1068
2 жыл бұрын
@@Inglese001 yes it was utter rubbish he proved his bravery and skill countless times against the fastest
@robmadill9267
10 ай бұрын
Boozing and Wenching. Beautiful Yorkshire terms. Two of my heroes. God bless them.
@yingyang1008
2 жыл бұрын
Key word: Grammar School He would never have made it going to a comprehensive
@Inglese001
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, amazed that England have enough players to put a team together. Cricket's been dying in England for years
@paulframe85
3 жыл бұрын
Decent top order for Barnsley CC on film
@lewisgreen2957
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic batsman, an all time great. He faced up to some of the greatest bowlers with very little bodily protection or helmets. Very similar to Gavaskar although Sunny I think was just that bit better..
@rtms9092
2 жыл бұрын
Sunny was way better
@MichaelJordan-yy1sr
11 ай бұрын
Better but not way better
@seamusweber8298
10 ай бұрын
Boycott did not make himself available to play, between 1974-76. He avoided the WIs and the Aussie, fast bowlers. Boycott was a great player but he didn't face the world strongest teams between 74-76.
@stephenmcloughlin7718
10 ай бұрын
Not sure Sunny was better. Two great openers.
@yasirsennahai4768
10 ай бұрын
He once got a hundred against Australia and someone said that his hundred was a lucky hundred. Boycott replied, "funny that, the harder I practice, the luckier I get.
@aliofly
10 ай бұрын
Quoting Gary Player?
@NPA1001
3 жыл бұрын
The debate over Boycott the player will always be whether you believed if he played for the team or his own place in the record books.
@14nst3w4rt
10 ай бұрын
not many know that Parkinson kept Boycott out of their village cricket team
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
Holy crap, now that’s a share! Thanks!
@kevinbeck6785
2 жыл бұрын
Sir Geoffrey Boycott the Master
@davidpollard4051
3 жыл бұрын
For most of his playing career I think he had a lot of difficulty relating to his teammates just as they had a lot of difficulty understanding him. Was he too self-obsessed, only focusing on himself or was he so determined that this brought him the undoubted success that he had ? No doubt he fell out with an awful lot of people of the years and it can't all have been a coincidence. - but you'd want him opening the innings against a top Test team. Wish there was more footage of his batting in 67/8 v West Indies and 70/71 v Australia.
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
I like to think that his attitude, if that’s what we call it, embodies the proper opener’s spirit… You have to be tough and single-minded. He made me want to open and I faced some of the fastest bowlers in my country… and got hit. Multiple times. It’s not easy and requires a lot of raw courage. Boycott showed me this is what to love in cricket, and I surely do. 💪🏏
Was he also interviewed the following year by Parkinson following his sacking as captain at Yorkshire
@traceya9615
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, he was. It was a big story at the time. I watched it as a kid.
@dinerouk
2 жыл бұрын
@@traceya9615 And interviewed aged 80 here by Nigel Farage: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y3uMsqyMfaiao6A
@Battismore-Blue
11 ай бұрын
Never seemed to me to be one of the lads
@johnmifsud6814
10 ай бұрын
Did Boycottt have a hair transplant / if so it must have been one of the earliest - beat Elton John
@stephenreeds3632
10 ай бұрын
Parkinson kept on picking at the same topic....cutting himself off etc.
@captpicard6894
2 жыл бұрын
If the wimpy, wishy-washy, pathetic, woke mob of so called “Batsmen” (Joe Root excluded) we have now in the England team had more of Sir Geoffrey’s application, dedication, and single-mindedness we might actually have a chance of regaining the Ashes this Winter.
@michaelgpartridge2384
5 күн бұрын
Nice. Root has the fire and the class batting👌
@Marius_vanderLubbe
10 ай бұрын
Not one mention that I can see of his violent attack and conviction for assaulting a woman. What a disgrace.
@bobbyhanly3466
10 ай бұрын
Wouldn't be very suitable, would it? No more than you would want that violent attack on a sheep in June 1995 to be mentioned at Christmas Dinner.
@Marius_vanderLubbe
10 ай бұрын
@@bobbyhanly3466 You're typing in anagrams, bobby. Have the courage to project your beliefs succinctly.
@user-qt3dg3qn6x
10 ай бұрын
Assaulted because a French court said so without him having a defence of any decent sort and the whole case being in French with him not knowing what was being said. You should read the facts of that case. One such fact being that she mentioned him doing something and on the date mentioned, he wasn't even in the country.
@Marius_vanderLubbe
10 ай бұрын
@@user-qt3dg3qn6x I'm unclear as to what the detriment of having a French court of justice find him guilty is?
@user-qt3dg3qn6x
10 ай бұрын
Marius van der Lubbe Because he had no idea what was being said and his own lawyer was not able to make it clear to him. The whole thing was a farce, 'level playing field' and all that.
@amiyshrivastava4088
3 жыл бұрын
Geoffrey Boycott looks like a young Donald Trump here.
@RogerJJSmith
3 жыл бұрын
He's almost like a cross between a young Donald Trump and Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
@tomthomas9708
Жыл бұрын
Not a team player.
@kenjones6441
10 ай бұрын
Ha, what an idiot. As part of a cricket team would you prefer a batsman to score 6 or a selfish batsman scoring 100. Who helps the team more?
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