Being Geoffrey Boycott

When the first lockdown came, finding himself without cricket for the first time in hislife, Geoffrey Boycott sat down and began to write a retrospective warts-and-all diary of each of his Testmatch appearances. It is illuminating and unsparing, characterised by Boycott’s astonishing memory,famous forthrightness and unvarnished, sometimes lacerating, honesty. That 100,000 word documentforms the basis for Being Geoffrey Boycott, a device that takes the reader inside Geoffrey’s head and backthrough cricket history, presenting a unique portrait of the internal and external forces that compelledhim 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 teamedup with award-winning author Jon Hotten in this catalogue of his tumultuous time with the nationalside. Dropped for scoring a slow double hundred, making himself unavailable to play for England forseveral years, captain for eight seasons of a group of strong, stroppy and extremely talented playersat Yorkshire, bringing up his hundredth hundred at Headingley against the Old Enemy, seeing DavidGower and Ian Botham emerge as future greats, playing under Mike Brearley in the 1981 Ashes, inthis enlightening book Boycott reveals a host of never-before-heard details regarding his peers and hisplaying days.

Geoffrey Boycott is undoubtedly one of England’s greatest ever batsmen. Playing 108 Testmatches between 1964 and 1982, the hugely controversial opener scored a then record 8,114 runs at47.72 – the highest completed average of any English player since 1970 – against some of the greatestbowlers the world has ever seen.

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