Sport on TV: Moore is less on Boycott's interview

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: October 31, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

GREG CHAPPELL tells the quintessential Geoff Boycott story. The English were Down Under, trying to work out the mysteries of the spinner, John Gleeson. "He doesn't know the trouble he caused us," says Boycott. Basil D'Oliveira was out in the middle with Boycs when he finally began to make some runs off Gleeson. He gleefully told his colleague how he'd finally deciphered the bowler's action.

"I worked it out in the second Test," Boycott replied. "But don't tell those buggers in the dressing room."

This was always the main charge against the notoriously self- willed run machine: Boycott was ...

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