At 70, Boycott continues to divide opinion
As Geoffrey Boycott turns 70, Bill Bridge of the Yorkshire Post reflects on the life and times of a cricketer-commentator who "made history and divided Yorkshire".
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
As Geoffrey Boycott turns 70, Bill Bridge of the Yorkshire Post reflects on the life and times of a cricketer-commentator who "made history and divided Yorkshire".
...He is revered by many who follow the game – especially in Yorkshire – as a great batsman, perhaps the best Englishman of that calling since the Second World War. For others – many of them in Yorkshire – he will never rank alongside Herbert Sutcliffe and Sir Leonard Hutton and will forever carry the stigma of being the individual who brought a great county cricket club to its knees.
To sum up assessing Geoffrey Boycott is like – and this comes from several good sources – batting with him.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo