Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 228. Chapters: Richie Benaud, Ian Botham, Mark Taylor, David Gower, Mike Atherton, Ian Chappell, Sunil Gavaskar, Geoffrey Boycott, Bob Willis, Fred Trueman, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Lawry, Jack Fingleton, Dominic Cork, Norman Yardley, Shane Warne, Norm O'Neill, Ted Dexter, Ravi Shastri, Kepler Wessels, David Lloyd, Jim Burke, List of cricket commentators, C. B. Fry, Greg Matthews, Wasim Akram, Tony Greig, Trevor Bailey, Darren Lehmann, Nasser Hussain, Graham Gooch, Ray Illingworth, Waqar Younis, Jeff Thomson, Denis Compton, John Arlott, Allan Donald, Ian Healy, Michael Slater, Brian Johnston, David Hookes, Jonathan Agnew, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Geoff Lawson, Emerson Rodwell, Henry Blofeld, Mark Butcher, Bill Frindall, Dennis Cometti, Dean Jones, Freddie Brown, Aamer Sohail, Michael Holding, Mike Gatting, Ajay Jadeja, Barry Richards, Jim Laker, Rameez Raja, Greg Blewett, Jimmy Adams, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Vic Richardson, Graham Roope, Tom Graveney, Vic Marks, Mark Nicholas, Fanie de Villiers, Peter Roebuck, James Brayshaw, Athar Ali Khan, Mark Richardson, Johnnie Moyes, Alison Mitchell, Tom Moody, Dermot Reeve, Graeme Fowler, Mushtaq Mohammad, Simon O'Donnell, Robert Hudson, Jamie Cox, Angus Fraser, Max Walker, Omar Kureishi, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Jeff Dujon, Harsha Bhogle, Alan Gibson, Keith Stackpole, Karunaratne Abeysekera, Jeremy Coney, Dougie Brown, E. W. Swanton, Simon Hughes, Ian Smith, Peter Cranmer, Peter Walker, Arthur Gilligan, Kerry O'Keeffe, Danny Morrison, Ian Bishop, Mohsin Khan, Terry Alderman, Bob Harvie, Damien Fleming, Sanjay Manjrekar, Howard Marshall, Tony Lewis, Russel Arnold, Paul Allott, Michael Haysman, Mohammad Ali Shah, Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, Khalid Ibadulla, Peter West, Adam Parore, Rex Alston, Mike Selvey, Robin Jackman, Maninder Singh, Bruce Yardley, Simon Doull, Gavin Larsen, Alan McGilvray, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Mark Saggers, Donna Symmonds, Don Mosey, Charles Colvile, Pommie Mbangwa, Farokh Engineer, Glenn Mitchell, Peter Baxter, Arun Lal, Arlo White, Jack Bannister, Jim Maxwell, Ken Ablack, Ranjit Fernando, Tony Cozier, Atul Wassan, Alan Wilkins, Neil Manthorp, A. F. S. Talyarkhan, Palitha Perera, Berry Sarbadhikari, Arthur Wrigley, Mirza Iqbal Baig, Premasara Epasinghe, Michael Charlton, Charu Sharma, Simon Mann, Bryan Waddle, Mark Church, Gerald de Kock, Jo King, Gavin Pfuhl. Excerpt: Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born 21 October 1940) is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer. In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing career from 1962 to 1986, Boycott established himself as one of England's most successful opening batsmen. Since retiring as a player, Boycott has found further success as a cricket commentator. Boycott made his international debut in a 1964 Test match against Australia. He was noted for his ability to occupy the crease and became a key feature of England's Test batting line up for many years, although he was less successful in his limited One Day International (ODI) appearances. He accumulated large scores ¿ he is the fourth highest accumulator of first class centuries in history, and the first English player to average over 100.00 in a season ¿ but often encountered friction with his team mates. Journalist Ian Wooldridge commented that "Boycott, in short, walks alone", while cricket writer John Arlott wrote that Boycott had a "lonely" career. Others, however, have stated that the extent of his introverted nature has been exaggerated, and that while he w...
