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Boycott was born in Fitzwilliam in Yorkshire and began playing county cricket for his home county in 1962. He began an illustrious Test career only two years later in the first test of the summer against Australia. He went on to score 8114 runs in an 18 year test career spanning 108 Test matches. He was the first England cricketer to past 8000 Test runs and is still fourth on England's all-time running scoring list (behind Graham Gooch, Alec Stewart and David Gower). His average of 47.73 runs over 193 innings is a unique achievement amongst players playing since 1970. His Test career included 22 centuries (an England record that he holds jointly with Wally Hammond and Colin Cowdrey). In 1977, Boycott became the first ever cricketer to score his hundredth first class century in a Test Match when he scored 191 against Australia in the fourth Test on his home ground of Headingley.
He was always a controversial figure and spent some time in an apparently self-imposed exile after getting on badly with his fellow players. His batting style in many ways reflected his personality, dour and dogged, and he was renowned for his ability to stick around for hours, boring spectators with his defensive style of play. He famously deliberately ran out Derek Randall in front of Randall's home crowd in order to save himself before going to make a century (this was in Boycott's "comeback" Test at Trent Bridge, where he went on to score 107, and incidentally it was the match in which Ian Botham made his England debut). Legend has it that during one of his three matches as England's captain due to Mike Brearley'sJohn Michael Brearley (born in Harrow, Middlesex, on 28 April, 1942) was cricketer who captained the England cricket team in 31 of his 39 Test matches, winning 17 and losing only 4. He also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Middlesex injury the rest of the team in pavilion determined that Boycott was scoring so slowly that he was in danger costing England the match. Ian Botham went on to run out Boycott, apparently deliberately.
Boycott's ability to occupy the crease come what may is reflected by the fact that he is the only England player to bat in all five days of a Test match. In his first match back from his exile, he batted on each of the first three days in the first innings against Australia at Trent BridgeWilliam Clarke stand during a Test match, August 2003 Trent Bridge is a Test cricket ground located in West Bridgford, Nottingham, England and is also the headquarters of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. The site is located very close to the main brid in 1977, scoring 107. He then scored 80 not out in the second innings which spanned days four and five.
As well as a batsman, Boycott was also a medium-pace bowlerA bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. A bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder. There are several types of bowlers and most teams will have a variety available in the team to take adva, but was never regarded as a genuine all-rounderIn the sport of cricket, an all-rounder is a player who is both a good batsman and bowler. Although all bowlers must bat at some time, many of them are not very skilled and are not considered to be of this class. One of the most amazing all-rounder feats. He took seven wickets at Test level at an average of 54.57.