It's forty years to the day since a batsman scored his hundredth First Class hundred on his home ground, in an Ashes Test, after a several year long self-imposed exile from international cricket.
So hearty congratulations to "Sir" Geoffrey Boycott, the finest defensive Batsman that I have ever seen.
I was just eight years old, back from school in time to watch the pictures from Headingley. Every male in the country was watching the cricket on BBC2, or so it seemed.
It's an extraordinary achievement. Not the meaningless Fake News of "a hundred international centuries", mainly against popgun attacks with no slip cordon.
No, Boycott's hundred hundreds were in real cricket on real pitches, many against county attacks featuring 3 or even 4 overseas bowlers.
August 11th 1977. I remember it as if it was yesterday.
So hearty congratulations to "Sir" Geoffrey Boycott, the finest defensive Batsman that I have ever seen.
I was just eight years old, back from school in time to watch the pictures from Headingley. Every male in the country was watching the cricket on BBC2, or so it seemed.
It's an extraordinary achievement. Not the meaningless Fake News of "a hundred international centuries", mainly against popgun attacks with no slip cordon.
No, Boycott's hundred hundreds were in real cricket on real pitches, many against county attacks featuring 3 or even 4 overseas bowlers.
August 11th 1977. I remember it as if it was yesterday.