Six reasons not to become an opener
This day, 25 years ago, Geoff Boycott was at the receiving end of perhaps the greatest over ever bowled
In the folklore of cricket, those six balls have acquired the reputation of the most lethal over ever delivered. It is not something you can prove except to say that anyone who witnessed what happened, as I did, is bound to say they never saw anything quite like it.
"You were never worried about Boycott embarrassing you. I only remember him hooking me once, but he wasn't easy to intimidate. A lot of people said he didn't like the fast stuff, didn't want to face Lillee and Thomson, but I never saw him look as if he wanted to back off. Not once."