Aggers catches out Boycott on his hundred hundreds

[Junaids]

This is absolute cricket gold!

Test Match Special still doing the business after sixty years on air!

Anyone who can listen should spare ten minutes to listen to Jonathan Agnew breaking Boycott the news that the ICC has downgraded an Apartheid era century by Sir Geoffrey.

Which means that his celebrated hundredth hundred in an Ashes Test at his home ground, Headingley, is now only his ninety ninth, and his real hundredth was at Faisalabad!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05b5j5t

 

[HitWicket]

Not sure it would be accessible outside the UK actually [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION].

 

[mak36]

This is absolute cricket gold!

Test Match Special still doing the business after sixty years on air!

Anyone who can listen should spare ten minutes to listen to Jonathan Agnew breaking Boycott the news that the ICC has downgraded an Apartheid era century by Sir Geoffrey.

Which means that his celebrated hundredth hundred in an Ashes Test at his home ground, Headingley, is now only his ninety ninth, and his real hundredth was at Faisalabad!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05b5j5t

You have forgotten to mention it was a joke.

 

[The Googly]

I was on a business trip to Cambridge and I heard this!

You have to understand the appeal of Test Match Special to get this - so only the UK based Pakistanis may understand. I love TMS! A truly legendary program.

And Agnew really fooled Boycott. He made him believe the ICC had decided not to recognise the Rest of the World test match for political reasons. Boycott got a hundered in this test. The significance of all this was that Boycott's one hundredth 100 was in a famous test match at Headingley against the Aussies. If his rest of the world 100 was no longer recognised, then the 100th 100 was no longer this vital test against Aussies but in a side match in Faisalabad. Boycott was really miffed and kept on about how stupid the ICC were. He remembered the date of the 100th 100 at Headingley and is having a centenary celebration in 2 weeks.

After 10 minutes of winding Boycott up, Agnew admitted it was a joke and Boycott's relief was palpable. An excellent listen.

 

[AlizeeFan]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When <a href="https://twitter.com/Aggerscricket">@Aggerscricket</a> received a 'press release', <a href="https://twitter.com/GeoffreyBoycott">@GeoffreyBoycott</a> wasn't expecting what was to follow...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bbccricket?src=hash">#bbccricket</a> <a href="https://t.co/4poNOfQRlN">pic.twitter.com/4poNOfQRlN</a></p>— Test Match Special (@bbctms) <a href="https://twitter.com/bbctms/status/892006915064115201">July 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Markhor]

These two are great needling each other on commentary.

TMS is a national treasure, valuable when you can't watch on TV or at work.

 

[Stallion__]

Amazing from Aggers. Thanks for sharing.

 

[mak36]

I was on a business trip to Cambridge and I heard this!

You have to understand the appeal of Test Match Special to get this - so only the UK based Pakistanis may understand. I love TMS! A truly legendary program.

And Agnew really fooled Boycott. He made him believe the ICC had decided not to recognise the Rest of the World test match for political reasons. Boycott got a hundered in this test. The significance of all this was that Boycott's one hundredth 100 was in a famous test match at Headingley against the Aussies. If his rest of the world 100 was no longer recognised, then the 100th 100 was no longer this vital test against Aussies but in a side match in Faisalabad. Boycott was really miffed and kept on about how stupid the ICC were. He remembered the date of the 100th 100 at Headingley and is having a centenary celebration in 2 weeks.

After 10 minutes of winding Boycott up, Agnew admitted it was a joke and Boycott's relief was palpable. An excellent listen.

Great summary- I listened to it live and it was very amusing. The only thing I would add was the matches in that tour ended up being classed as first class matches rather than test matches.

 

[The Googly]

Great summary- I listened to it live and it was very amusing. The only thing I would add was the matches in that tour ended up being classed as first class matches rather than test matches.

Boycott is a great summariser and speaks his mind. I think he is very unbiased and shoots with both barrels especially when the batting is poor. Agnew and him have a great relationship. They all wind Boycott up. Boycott doesn't hold back either. He constantly berates Agnew's bowling! "If you were bowling, I'd still be batting today........"

 

[Cuts_and_cuts_hard]

Absolutely hilarious. I have no idea how Aggers kept a straight face.

 

[Markhor]

Boycott is a great summariser and speaks his mind. I think he is very unbiased and shoots with both barrels especially when the batting is poor.

Definitely. Pakistan fans especially love Boycott because he's always had a soft spot for us. He testified for us in the 1992 and 2006 ball tampering controversies.

I remember when Imran Khan was on a UK TV show called the Devil's Advocate to discuss the affair. Boycott was an audience member and said "Nobody kicked up a fuss when Derek Pringle admitted to ball tampering because a) he's white, b) he's Essex and c) he's not that good !"

 

[mak36]

Boycott is a great summariser and speaks his mind. I think he is very unbiased and shoots with both barrels especially when the batting is poor. Agnew and him have a great relationship. They all wind Boycott up. Boycott doesn't hold back either. He constantly berates Agnew's bowling! "If you were bowling, I'd still be batting today........"

Yes, I agree. Boycott has always spoken his mind irrespective of who is playing. He tends to talks sense when it comes to cricket.

 

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He's such a bugger that <a href="https://twitter.com/Aggerscricket">@Aggerscricket</a> - I'll get him back! And everyone else involved <a href="https://twitter.com/bbctms">@bbctms</a>! Muppets! <a href="https://t.co/tPlcdPzZh5">https://t.co/tPlcdPzZh5</a></p>— Geoffrey Boycott (@GeoffreyBoycott) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeoffreyBoycott/status/892015774696701952">July 31, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[Stallion__]

Boycott is one of the only two batsmen whose hundredth hundred came in a test match. So he would have lost that distinction as well.

From getting it in an Ashes test in front of his home crowd to scoring it in a practice match in Faisalabad against UBL

Agnew was messing up one of his most cherished memory.

 

[delpiero10]

Truly brilliant radio. Aggers did so well to keep a straight face throughout.

Fair play to Boycott, though. He took it all in good humour once they revealed it was a joke.