"We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London."
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Brian Viner "It's cricket, Geoff, but not as we know it", The Independent (20 August 2005).
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