I had a better technique than Gavaskar: Geoffrey Boycott

[balaram0201]

yeah, I have better technique than you Boycott.

[Subash0069]

i have a sever reverence for Gavaskar and Boycott. Yes, both of them played in the same era and both of them had a similiar style of batting. But why the falk would the Indian media invest so much time and tv space when there are so many other issues that needs to be brought to light?

I can understand how passionate Indians are about their Cricket, but it is such a trivial issue that doesn't require any discussion or judgement. I guess the indian population is more interested in this topic.

[melglen1]

gavaskar was so much better than the most boring and selfish cricketer in history boycott . gavaskar record against the greatest attack ever the 70s and 80s windies is awesome

[lalitadityamuktapida]

@melglen1 Actually Gavaskar Average against WI was high in the early 70s when they had couple quicks and a couple spinners like Lance Gibbs. However, once they had their fierce pace quartet of Garner, Croft, Marshall and Holding, his average too fell to the mid-30s just like everybody else on the planet. A mid 30s average is not awesome. Very few of his 17 centuries against WI also came against the quartet. But to be fair, Boycott too had a mid 30s average against the WI pace quartet.

[latenitehero]

WHO CARES!!!

[sahil5616]

go to hell you britishers.boycott succcccccccksssssssss

[nick260682]

Fucking love Boycs.

[hamzasalick]

Indian media and Indian people are sooooooo full of shittttt!!U assholez gavaskar played n placid pitches..Boycott played most of his cricket on seaming English and bouncy Oz wickets..And look at the records of English team from 1965-1985 and the indian team from 1970-1990..U would get the answer urself..Idiots!!

[r8rdarklord]

@hamzasalick What has team record got to do with individual achievement or better technique. Also, didn't gavaskar play in Australia, England, Newzealand and West Indies ? Look at his record against the West Indies in West Indies before making an idiotic comment.

[amitavinashsingh]

Geoff Boycott is a legend of World Cricket.

[haluakhan]

INDIA listen u live in planet earth which is suffering from poverty deforestation and global warming......... not inside a cricket stadium with the stumps shoved up inside ur asses,,,,be practical FOOLS

[MrHistorian123]

Boycott had a better technique than anybody. But technique alone does not make a great batsman. Boycott too often limited his attacking strokes because he felt he had to occupy the crease to prevent England collapsing. On the rare occasions he let himself go (like in the 1965 Gillette final) he could be devastating. But he didn't have the luxury of great batsman lower down the order if he failed. Gavaskar did, which enabled him to play with far more freedom. Both were truly great players.

[sanjuz]

Gavas or Boycs ? at Test level I have to go with Gavas - Boycs was tighter defensively (as he rightly claims) but he strangled his own stroke-making ability in the process - Gavas made the solid hundreds that Boycs did but Boycs never allowed himself to score a Test hundred in 94 balls like G did against the 1983 West Indies pace attack - also Sunny's legendary 221 and 96 have no equivalent on Boycs CV - Boycs best was probably his early-career 246

[sanjuz]

probably spent more time at the first-class crease than any man ever - still second best Test average for England post-1970, still joint highest Test centuries for England with 22 - Boycott is a true legend of the game obscured by curmudgeons like Close and Illingworth among others turning him into a figure of ridicule - has an un-British habit of openly speaking his mind for which he has been well and truly bludgeoned

[sanjuz]

Geoffrey Boycott has the highest average of all players with over 40,000 first-class runs - 56.83 - topped the county averages more times than anyone else post-war - six times - averaged over 100 in 1971 and 1979 - think of his contemporaries in those lists - Hobbs, Woolley, Sutcliffe, Hendren, Hammond, Richards x 2, Greenidge, Turner, Abbas, Miandad, Gooch, Hick - that's very impressive

[Camelsarse]

Boycott had an amazing technique, not bettered by many.

Gavaskar and Boycott both have great stats to back it up.

I would go as far to say that Boycott had a much better technique then Viv Richards. Was he a better player then Richards? No. So everyone stop spitting your dummies out. Hardly matters now anyway, they've both been retired for how many years.........

[cupidvogel]

His average against South Africa and New Zealand was modest, though he had played Hadlee relatively well. Plus just like Gavaskar, he had helped out his team in a number of crunch situations. So overall, I think, both are great, and their greatness should not be and cannot be compared. Star News makes a suave attempt at promoting Gavaskar above Boycott (as if their slick tactics would influence a reasonably logical man), but most of the stuff they told were possibly embroidered.

[cupidvogel]

And most of them was against Thomson, but none against Lillee. And that counts, right? No century against an England attack boasting John Snow, although quite a few against Underwood and Botham & Willis, and in particular, a classy 221at Oval, to some extent, redeems his modest average against England. Boycott got some spectacular tons against Lillee, and had a fine average against the Indian spin-quartet (though admittedly. he played them mostly in not-that-spinner-friendly tracks of England).

[cupidvogel]

While most of his other tons were against a WI attack that had only one (or at most 2) of the pace battery, and that completely excludes his sterling debut, where he amassed 774 runs. True, that cannot detract from the quality of his inningses, given the adverse conditions, they were still superb, but surely not as superb as we would have deemed them had at least 3of the 4 were there, right? However, his swansong 236 was against 3 of them, barring Garner. He scored a number of tons against Aust,

[cupidvogel]

Let's not rely entirely on Star News. It habitually exaggerates to spice things up. Now as to the topic, both are great batsmen, no doubt. Technically both were amazingly solid, and their records are equally telling. I am a great fan of both, but let me clear some myths: contrary to what we think (or rather, what we like to think), Gavaskar hasn't scored all his centuries against the quadro-charged pace attack of West Indies. Only 1 of his 13 tons (147 at Bourda in 1983) was against all of them.

[thatguyyouknow2]

Boycott is a faggot I'm glad he got kicked out of commentary.

[Sound432]

@thatguyyouknow2 That's funny, i'm listening to him commentate on the Ashes as we speak.

[raggedclown]

Usual one-eyed, oversensitive rubbish from Indian fans and commentators.

[jaxpower1]

everyone knows he's an arrogant prick, it's not newsworthy material.

[AVAdude182]

I'm Aussie and I didn;t understand any of this but what I got from this was...Geoff boycott is a prick who Sunny Gavasker was 10 times the bastsman he ever was .....

[mistersmith6000]

@AVAdude182 Just curious - why was Boycott a prick? I don't think of him as a prick at all, but I haven't heard much about him. Seems OK to me. Sure, sounds all haughty and righteous all the time, but that's mostly my cultural background telling me that. Basically seems OK, what is the problem?

[knighterrantfilms]

@mistersmith6000 Boycott is fantastic

[lalithg]

Bull-shit!!!!

[dadvoc666]

hahahah

jiski tulna sirf Bradman say he ki jati hai

if Bradman is a Meter, your midget gavaskar is not more than a nanometer

[theindivish]

@dadvoc666 i agree.. what abt sachin dude... there was no bowler at the dons time as sachin as.. and anyways... why does don has to get intimidated by sachin playing style.. and said to hiswife this guy plays like me !!!!.. and at his time there was no cpmetetion except 7 grounds in the whole world.... and no 2 billion fans..

[jaxpower1]

boycott is an arrogant retard, but making a fuss about a comment like that is just stupid. It has absolutely no relevance.

[90carlw]

All of this just because boycott said he had a better technique than Gavaskar? Geezz talk about overreacting.

[lestephenois1]

Hanif Mohammad's technique was better than Gavaskar.

[Karnawarrior]

@lestephenois1 who the fuck is hanif mohaamed sunny is the great cricketer no wonder he scored so many hundreds against west indies four fearsome bowlers like roberts garner marshall holding sunny was the highest run getter in tests and had many test centuries than any other player when he retired.

[lestephenois1]

@Karnawarrior Hanif Mohammad my ignorant little snowflake was Sunil Gavaskar's childhood hero, he based his technique on Hanif's. Ask any cricket coach who saw both bat and he will tell you Hanif Mohammad had the better defensive technique.

[Karnawarrior]

@lestephenois1 i dont care but gavaskar is far better than hanif mohammed gav scored centuries against fast bowlers without no helmets does hanif hold any records other than triple century whereas gav had more centuries & runs when he retired.

[lestephenois1]

@Karnawarrior Hanif Mohammad never really wore helmets either you know... Gavaskar played 70 test matches more than him so obviously he was going to end up with more hundreds, Hanif also invented the reverse sweep and he held the record of the highest first class score for 40 years when he scored 499. He also played at a time when he was the only thing that kept Pakistan from collapsing, while Gavaskar had other players to support him.

[Karnawarrior]

@lestephenois1 u really dont know cricket india were weak team in 60,s & early 70,s gav contributed so many runs in that phase in test cricket actually india were the only team to chase more than 400 in west indies in 1976 .Gav any day better than u r hanif gav is regarded as best opener in test cricket .

[lestephenois1]

@Karnawarrior Lets end this mate... arguing on youtube is pointless, even if you win you're still a loser. Lets agree to disagree. But I think we can agree on one point.... Miandad was far superior to Gavaskar.... bye.

[Karnawarrior]

@lestephenois1 miandad that cheat haha gud joke miandad himself was fan of gavaskar miandad never scored a hundred in india He broke Bradman's record of highest number of test centuries. The record had stood for decades.

He not just broke the highest ever test runs but went on to become the first one to take career runs to five digits. It seemed a strange sight those 10,000 runs against his name then.

[StraightGrains]

whys this in paki language

[RamboHarrison]

I'll have thee know that Boycott had the finest technique in the game, a technique that can only be possesed by a Yorkshireman

[howsit666]

yeap i agree! a defensive and making ppl to go to sleep technique...

[GameOvai5]

Why does the Indian media speak with such stupidity?

Making a fuss over such a small comment.

[getalifein]

@GameOvai5 - True. The media is shit! A timepass! A fukin comedy show for me!

[raggedclown]

A very sensitive and thin-skinned people.

[lalitadityamuktapida]

@GameOvai5 Bro, all medias around the world are like that. Are you trying to tell me that the British media or the U.S. media make sage-like comments with Zen like brevity? They are here to make money. If money is made by recording facts, that is what they will do, if it is made by wise commentary, that is what they will do. They are not biased towards or against wisdom and truth. Money however is made by sensationalism and stupidity and that is what they do. They have to feed themselves, Bro!

[JimJordan1000]

Quit your jibber jabber.

[dunkiep]

Gavaskar looks like Raymond Blanc!

[MrSigma]

The presenter says "Baaycaatt" instead of Boycott.

[RodeoReject]

i dnt know what he is saying

[bajwa159]

guy presenting this documentary style video is "choot ka pissoon".

Who cares if they were about the same or one of them was a lil better.

"go have a better life" chand ki sair karo chand gari per,

[weetabixharry]

True

[Razovllay]

errrrrrrr.................. what?

[cricketsoul]

hahahaha jokes

[mutinyvizier]

TRUE