Much like his calling to teammates while batting, Geoffrey Boycott’s removal was later than it should have been and his survival at the BBC was to the detriment of others
The 11th and last time that Geoffrey Boycott ran out his Yorkshire teammate Richard Lumb was in the second innings of a County Championship match against Gloucestershire at Park Avenue in Bradford in 1982. It was the second time Boycott had done it to Lumb in that same match and afterwards Lumb sat in the dressing room with his pads on waiting for his partner to come back in from the middle.
When he did, Lumb, usually a quiet man, shouted: “What do you think you’re doing? Twice in the match? That’s 11-0 on run-outs now.” Boycott apologised. “I must be bad at it, what should I do?” he said. “You should piss off,” Lumb told him, “like you should have done 10 years ago.”
Written by Andy Bull
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2020/jun/09/farewell-geoffrey-boycott-a-mess-of-contradictions-whose-tms-innings-lasted-far-too-long under the title “Farewell Boycott, a mess of contradictions whose TMS innings lasted far too long | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
