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The Test Career of Geoffrey Boycott [3]

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The Test Career of Geoffrey Boycott 3 game quiz
"Boycott's swan song - some highlights from his later England career, with a few statistics at the end for good measure."

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1. The scene is the WACA stadium at Perth, during the 1979-80 England tour of Australia. What unusual feat did Boycott achieve on this ground in the First Test of the three-match series?
    scored a hundred in each innings
    scored 99 in each innings
    scored a double hundred in the fourth innings of the match
    carried his bat through an England innings


2. "Naturally I am interested," remarked Boycott when Brearley stepped down from the England captaincy in the spring of 1980. The Test selectors, however, chose a much younger player to skipper the side against the West Indies that summer. Who was it?
    Geoff Miller
    Graham Gooch
    Ian Botham
    David Gower


3. As, in Mike Brearley's judgment, "the best defensive batsman in the world", Boycott was a good foil for the clinically aggressive Graham Gooch, who had become his regular England opening partner by 1980. Which one of these statements is true of their opening partnerships against the West Indies that summer?
    they put on three century partnerships together
    Boycott scored 123 at Old Trafford after Gooch failed
    Gooch scored 123 at Lord's after Boycott failed
    their highest partnership was 71 at the Oval


4. How did Boycott celebrate his appearance in the Centenary Test between England and Australia at Lord's at the end of the 1980 home season?
    by running out Greg Chappell to win the match
    by holding five catches on the boundary
    by scoring a century
    by taking five wickets with his medium-paced bowling


5. Which great West Indian fast bowler, known affectionately to his peers as "Whispering Death", dismissed Boycott for 0 and 1 at Bridgetown, Barbados in the Second Test of the 1980-81 series?
    Andy Roberts
    Colin Croft
    Michael Holding
    Joel Garner


6. How did Boycott celebrate his appearance in the first-ever Test match played at the beautiful St John's ground in Antigua, on the 1980-81 Caribbean tour?
    by dancing naked in the middle of the pitch
    by gifting his wicket to local boy Vivian Richards
    by getting hopelessly drunk on the eve of the match
    by scoring a century


7. Who was the last England captain that Boycott played under in Test cricket?
    Michael Atherton
    Keith Fletcher
    Chris Old
    Bob Willis


8. Which one of these things did *not* happen to Boycott on the Indian tour of 1981-82?
    he resumed the vice-captaincy of the side
    he became the leading English run-scorer in Tests
    he scored his 22nd Test century at Delhi
    he returned home early from the tour under a cloud


9. How many Test matches did Boycott play in altogether?
    108
    118
    98
    128


10. What was Boycott's final Test career batting average?
    44.25
    47.73
    42.58
    39.90


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Compiled May 26 13