Geoffrey Boycott

Profile: Full name: Geoffrey Boycott Area of interest: Cricket Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph Email: Personal website: http://www.geoffboycott.com Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/geoffreyboycott Blog: Representation: Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/geoffboycott

Biography: About: "Geoffrey Boycott was a leading light in English cricket for a quarter of a century making over 48,000 runs and scoring 151 hundreds in an often controversial career with Yorkshire and England. After his distinguished peformances on the field he faced the biggest battle of his life – against cancer. He recovered to become an outspoken commentator on the game, his trenchant views on all aspects of cricket at home and abroad highly respected." See more here (geoffboycott.com) Education: Career: Current position/role: also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

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Articles: England can take few positives from West Indies tour - I am sure the England captain and the England Cricket Board spin doctors will tell us there are lots of positives to take out of this tour. Well there aren't - 12th March 2009 Andrew Flintoff's Test days are numbered - While losing Andrew Flintoff for the fourth Test match, starting on Thursday, is clearly a major setback, it is time that the other England players got used to doing without him - 23rd February 2009 Stanford exit gives us chance to put morality ahead of money again - There is an element of just desserts about what has happened to the Stanford deal - 19th February 2009 England in a time warp - England don't go forwards. They don't go backwards. They just stand perfectly still, while life moves on around them - 9th February 2009 A fit Andrew Flintoff should help England beat West Indies comfortably - If everybody stays fit, England should beat the West Indies with something to spare. What worries me is that a successful tour could end up being used as propaganda by the mandarins at the England and Wales Cricket Board - 4th February 2009 ECB unity impossible if Hugh Morris remains - David Collier and Hugh Morris, the two operating officers of the ECB, met with the county chairmen on Monday to explain the farcical removal of Kevin Pietersen as England captain - 21st January 2009 ECB dinosaurs must be removed - The England and Wales Cricket Board have removed the captain and coach but the two who should have been sacked are still there - 12th January 2009 ECB responsible for Kevin Pietersen and Peter Moores England mess - Was that it? A five-minute press conference and no questions from the media? - 4th January 2009

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