Book description
Who'd make it into the best England team ever? And you can chose
anyone, regardless of when they might have played. Would W. G. Grace
be playing alongside Denis Compton and David Gower? Or Kevin
Pietersen?
The debate could be endless, so who better to make the selection
than Geoffrey Boycott, himself one of England's all-time highest
scoring Test batsmen and now the game's most forthright, shrewd and
iconoclastic commentator.
Based on his own fresh analysis amd interpretation of the
statistics, Boycs has come up with his own, sometimes surprising Best
Eleven of all time. And he's not just cast a critical eye over
England's finest either. Every other test-playing nation comes under
the spotlight.
You may not agree - in fact, you're almost certain not to - but each
player has been carefully chosen and the case for his inclusion
forcefully argued in what is sure to be the most entertaining,
thought-provoking and memorable cricket books of the year from one of
the game's most outspoken and enduring characters.
Geoffrey Boycott first played for Yorkshire in 1962. He played his
first Test match for England just two years later before going on to
become the first England cricketer to pass 8000 runs. In an eighteen
year career he played in 108 Test matches, scored 22 Test centuries,
including a high score of 246 and ended with a Test average of 47. 73.
Since retiring as a player, he has enjoyed a hugely successful career as
a commentator. He lives in Jersey and South Africa.
