I love listening to Boycott talk about cricket, he has the stereotype of the dour Yorkshireman but listening back to this you can see he's making constructive points and giving credit where he feels it's due. The value of expertise.

Boycott always speaks his mind. I like that, at least he's not two faced like some Londoners and im a Londoner :)

Boycott, Sidhu, Chappel, Botham in the same commentary box!

Hats off Sir ...

Always talks sense does our Geoffrey! =)

very good.knows the game does mr boycott

In the period 1968-86. Yorkshire were a team that lost most of its experienced team. Or in the cases of Illingworth and Close left altogether and went to Somerset and Leicestershire. Plus the policy of only selecting Yorkshire born player's whilst every other county had West Indians, South African, Australian and Indian players they could employ. Yorkshire with Boycott as captain never worked. He has admitted he shouldn't have taken the job. In 1983 they won The John Player League.

Boycs. Great Batsman, a road of common sense

Good call with stokes

People can say anything about Geoff that he was slow and selfish and cared only about  his stats.

But I agree with Dickie Bird, he was a tough guy, slogged it hard and definitely the guy to bat for your life.

Thank-you!

damn....thought Boycott was actually going to chuck water at them.

Not enough Geordie's in the team.

Yeah kp might have moved above me in the all time runs but what me average ? What about his average ? I rest me case

Even though he is South African.

sir geoffry navjot sidhu loves u a lot

These comments have dated badly. We are in the Baz-Stokes era of fast-paced batting. The current English test team is one of the best ever.

The only comparison I can find to Pietersen in the England dressing room 2005-14 is Boycott in the Yorkshire team 1971-86. So no doubt Boycott supports Pietersen.

Both of them were superlative batsmen but played for themselves and dragged the side down as a result. Pietersen was worse than Boycott - texting the Saffers, provoking the KPGenius Twitter. Yorkshiremen are famously thin-skinned, but Afrikaners are even more thin-skinned - no sense of humour at all.

It seems counter-intuitive to suggest KP averaging 60 should be dropped when the other batsmen average 30, but if KP drags the whole side down that's it. The question is not how many runs does each batsman average but does the side win? The individual batsman's ego is sublimated to the team's interest. Neither Pietersen nor Boycott realised this.

Also, the issue of the strike rate. Are you scoring runs quickly enough that your team could win? I hope even Boycott would acknowledge that Boycott never took this into account, hence Yorkshire won so little between 1968 and 1986. With KP it was different; he scored runs where Boycott didn't, but he was such an arsehole no-one wanted to be near him.