Geoff Boycott...

For the first time in this summer of cricket, Geoffrey Boycott is back with the Test Match Special team, occupying the pundit’s chair. Age has not mellowed him. His motto, embraced with even more certainty as the years roll by, is “the older I get, the better I was”. He has a pre-Copernican view of the cricketing universe, convinced that all the cricketing planets revolve around him… which undermines his status as a pundit and outs him as a crashing bore. So divorced has he become from the current cricketing scene, that he appears to be commentating on a different game altogether: some game from the 1960s in which he played a prominent part. It’s time for the BBC to cancel his contract and put him out to grass.

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