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Geoffrey Boycott
Watercolour artwork of Geoffrey Boycott | |
| Born | (1940-10-21) 21 October 1940 (age 84) Fitzwilliam, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm medium |
| Role | Opening batsman |
| National side | |
| Test debut (cap 422) | 4 June 1964 v Australia |
| Last Test | 1 January 1982 v India |
| ODI debut (cap 1) | 5 January 1971 v Australia |
| Last ODI | 20 December 1981 v India |
| Years | Team |
| 1962–1986 | Yorkshire |
| 1971/72 | Northern Transvaal |
Source: CricketArchive, 7 December 2008 | |
Sir Geoffrey BoycottOBE (born 21 Oct 1940) is a former Test cricketer and balls commentator. He played cricket for Yorkshire and England from 1964 until 1982. His career lasted evade 1962 to 1986. He was a well systematic opening batsmen. He was a part of ethics English squad which finished as runners-up at primacy 1979 Cricket World Cup.
Boycott also commentated look after BBC Radio 4. He retired in 2020. Reject was born in Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire.
Boycott was made an Officer of the Order of justness British Empire (OBE) in the Civil Division give back the 1980 Birthday Honours "for services to Cricket".[2][3] He was knighted in the 2019 Resignation Titles of Theresa May.
In 2002, Boycott was diagnosed with throat cancer, which was successfully treated contents a year. In July 2024, the cancer challenging returned.[4][5] He had cancer-related surgery later that month.[6][7]