The kind of scathing criticism provided by Geoff Boycott must sting the English team. Yet, he isnt hated in England and people do listen when he speaks.
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Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott wrote in his Telegraph column: "Make no mistake about it, the Ashes are gone. If you support England, don't kid yourself that they might come back. No England team in history have recovered from 2-0 down against Australia. And let's face it, on current form, this is not a side capable of making history."
are devastating if you are an English cricketer preparing for your next game!
But you will hardly see Fletcher or Flintoff making any comments about this.
I wonder what the reaction would be if this was Sarfaraz talking about Pakistan in a Pak Ind series !!! I would imagine there would have been an uproar ?
Boycott's not interested in sucking up to modern cricketers. He lays down the facts, in a forthright manner. Apparently, he told Pietersen after Lord's last year that his 50 wasn't good enough and he should have got a hundred. That's the sort of commentary we need instead of all these brown-nosers you get nowadays. I really hate the way some people praise every Century, calling it "sensational", etc. Some hundreds are ugly tripe, and Boycott would be a man who calls a spade a spade. Although he'd probably find an ugly hundred quite attractive!
Boycott is right in his observation. There is hardly any chance for the England team to come back and win the series. It may be possible on paper but not on reality.
Joined: May 16, 2004 Posts: 1930 Location: Manchester, UK
to lose the match in the fashion they did is really demoralising for the team and fans
i hope the rest of the series will be good for england - there was soo much talk of an english win, then a draw - but no one thought england could lose
Boycott was that good - the best batsman technically we have ever produced, and one of the best openers to play test cricket. England fans have a lot of respect for Boycott. We have several batsmen who have opened for England and are pundits at the moment - such as Gooch, Atherton and Gatting. Gatting and Gooch are ok at it, Atherton is very good at it, but nothing is quite as interesting as Boycott's insight, because we recongise that he was the best, and he knows more about batting than the lot of them. He has scored billions of runs, scored big hundreds everywhere and won and saved stacks of games on his own, is one of the few England openers who had the talent to ever carry his bat, and had compelling contests with some of the very best bowlers.
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