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Third Test England v South Africa, The Oval, July 27-31
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Geoff Boycott absolutely done up like a kipper on TMS.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
Rodney Thomas
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GOT 'IM !!! Moeen Ali gets Morris off the last ball of the session! Caught at slip by Stokes 
That will make the sandwiches taste nicer
Lunch, Day Five
South Africa 205-7 (65 overs), trailing by 286
Dean Elgar 113* standing alone.
Two wickets in two balls for TRJ the highlight of the morning for England... just 3 more to go to seal the win.
That will make the sandwiches taste nicer
Lunch, Day Five
South Africa 205-7 (65 overs), trailing by 286
Dean Elgar 113* standing alone.
Two wickets in two balls for TRJ the highlight of the morning for England... just 3 more to go to seal the win.
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Long story - I'll try and keep it brief.
Aggers read out a 'press release' from the International Cricket Council stating that the series of matches between England and the Rest of the World in 1970 would now not only be expunged from the records of test matches (this was done in 1973), but all First Class stats would also be expunged. The series was the replacement for the cancelled tour of the South African. Boycott played in matches four and five.
Therefore all records from this series will be taken from the records. Various people were quoted in the press release saying 'we understand people taking part will be upset, but we know they'll take this on the chin...'
Andrew Sampson muttered that this was 'ridiculous'. Boycott, on air with Aggers at the time, exploded on air. "That's ridiculous! Muppets!"
"I know..." said Aggers, "... the thing is, don't you have a celebration organised for the 40th anniversary of your 100th century?" "Aye, I do - 11th August."
"Oh no, you'll have to cancel now..."
"But this is silly. Politics. I hate it..."
This went on for about ten minutes in between deliveries - Boycott getting more and more incredulous all the time.
Eventually Aggers said - "You're right, Geoffery. It's outrageous. Its awful. It's disgraceful. And it's a total wind-up..."
Cue huge laughter across the TMS box.
jakarta
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The TMS Team managed to convince him that one of his Centuries had been downgraded from First Class Status leaving on 99 rather than 100. Top Work!
Rodney Thomas
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BensGrandad
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Have England ever used or considered using Geoff Boycott as a batting coach?
They did once... but ran out of sticks of rhubarb.
It was MAGNIFICENT by the TMS team.
BensGrandad
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He talks a lot of sense about batting and the approach to it especially about movement of the feet.
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His main beef would be that his 100th century came at Leeds against Australia. He scored another fifty odd after that but I can see it would have rankled.
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It would have meant (part of the wind-up) that his 100th ton would have been scored in Faisalabad. Something he didn't seem too bothered by, to be fair.
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Oddly, I was watching KP do a thing on batting the other day and he totally de-bunked the movement of feet issue insisting it's all about moving your head towards the ball.
I think that depends on whether you are going to play the forward defensive or the flamingo.