Boycott gives a scathing review on the bowling of Jackson Bird as he is pummeled to the boundary in successive balls on the third day of the fourth test.
Say what you want about him, but he is always honest on his views, i remember when he was talking crap about Gambhir and the next ball he nicked it to the keeper.
I appreciate the honesty.. but his response to Gautam Gambit was unfair. Considering what Gambit has done for India.. what I recall he was criticizing Gambir after 2-3 year layoff and towards his last year of international cricket.
England's best bowler Jimmy Anderson was bowling 82mph at this stage. What shallow commentary. Bird has a decent record in the few games he played, and that pitch was a road. Boycs can sometimes be full of it.
you gotta be joking, he's the worst commentator ever like seriously. And calling a racist and domestic abuser a Sir is stupid and maybe try not to look for European Validation
Geoffrey boycott is not a good commentator. He berates a player especially if they are not English. A commentator can criticise a player but they shouldn't keep on insulting a player ovet and ovet again. His commentary may look good in a short video but when you listen to it in an entire match it just becomes annoying.
He’s worse on England players. Trust me. There’s a reason he didn’t make or have many friends when he played for England. Hard man to please is an understatement to say the least.
@Nit Lover Mark Wood regularly bowls well into the 90s, that's faster than anybody the Aussies have. Olly Stone is also a genuine quick around 90mph. And then there's Jofra, as Steve Smith will know.
Jack Bird played in one match in this series , and this was the one match, and Jack Bird did not take a wicket in the match, and in this match the result in a draw, which means the criticism off Jack Bird is valid.
I don't know if people are aware of this but Boycott was the slowest run scorer probably in the history of cricket and he is credited in Australia for the saying ( slower than a wet week ) . If you look up what does slower than a wet week means it genuinely says Geoffrey Boycott.
I agree with Geoffrey. I'm an Australian who follows South Africa and West Indies. I don't rate Bird either. Scott Boland is Australia's finest bowler over the past 15 months, very good average and economy rate. What's Jackson Bird ever done?
@@shylo8590 Yes. I'd have Cummins, Boland and Morris. Hazelwood 12th man. Why isn't Boland in the ODI team? He has the best economy rate........ Maybe he hasn't bribed anyone yet like Starc, Hazelwood have done.
@@justadreamerforgood69 Yes Neser, you could make a case for K Richardson, J Richardson and M Perry too but its difficult All I know is Cummins & Boland are the two definites. I don't like Starc. Hazelwood isn't brilliant. I don't like Abbott at all. I'd probably have; 1) Labushagne 2) Khawaja 3) Smith 4) Head 5) Handscomb 6) Green 7) Carey 8) Cummins 9) Murphy 10) Boland 11) Hazelwood 12th man) Lyon Depending on what ground its being played on.
This is rich coming from Boycott! I’m a child of the sixties and remember well being bored to tears when he batted. I seriously doubt he would have had the aggression to smack him to the boundary. He would have raised his bat and let another scoring opportunity go by. 🥱
@@hyena131 Selfish how? England lost only 20 of his 108 matches, and thats mainly cause he failed. If you needed a rearguard to draw a match Boycott was your man.
Grant Hodges saw boycott come in in the last over for Yorkshire needing 6 a ball to win. He hit the first two or three for six but couldn’t get them home. He wasn’t quite as people remember him
David Marshall no one would dispute his application and concentration but seriously he excelled in a period when England thought a draw was as good as a win. The England you see and enjoy playing cricket today is largely due to the great Australian wicket keeper Rod Marsh who shaped the otherwise dour English team into a more aggressive team modelled on Australian sport in general.
He took 34 wickets in 9 matches at 30.6 in flat Aussie conditions so nearly 4 wickets a match at an average of 30. He dont even suck that bad. These are good stats for an Aussie bowler.
Those stats are good if you play for India or West Indies , for Australia I don't think so. edit: This is not a jab at Jackson Bird.Australia has a high bar for fast bowlers . Most of their matches are won by their fast bowlers.
@@ahmedshakib3883 These are good stats if bowling against good batting side like India, England, Australia poor bowling stats if bowling against poor batting sides like Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Kenya.
What people in the comments seem to forget as well is that this was the last Test he ever played. Some people in positions of influence in Australian cricket must have agreed with him.
His own bowlers are medium pace bowlers and he is criticizing jackson bird.. he is a good bowler he bowls on a good line and length..those days mcg pitch was a bowlers graveyard
he is talking about jackson bird like if most english international bowlers cant bowl past 85 besides archer, jordon, board and wood and anderson sometimes. he does have a point tho i do have to admit
@@nikhilgadre7851 It was a tongue in cheek question based on what a miserable, critical bastard Boycott is. If you asked Boycott if he rated Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards, Kohli, Sobers, Kallis, Joe Root, Andy Flower, Hashim Amla, Tendulkar, Steve Smith, Gavaskar, Sangakkara, Lara, Miandad, Alistair Cook, Dravid, Labuschagne, Ponting, Kane Williams, Gilchrist, Steve Waugh, etc, etc (you get the picture), of course he'd give them the thumbs up. The point is he's very negative and critical with many players and cricket in general. "In my day it were different..."
zee qayum at the moment I think he’s very overrated, even though he’s Australian I hope he turns out a great bowler it’ll make England a chance of winning a test here
@@zeeqayum4834 what is your problem with English cricketers I don’t understand. Have no idea what country you’re from but can only assume we gave your team a battering.
@@ShivamC287 15 years of playing cricket and just one 5-fer in Aus loooool. Pulls out of every tours for the sake of average. haha. Most useless bowler a team can have for overseas lmao
People get obsessed about the speed gun. When Jofra Archer came on the scene, people would get outraged if he bowled anything less than 90 mph and accused him of not putting in the effort. Australia is a tough place to play if you are a medium-pacer, it's much easier in England when the conditions are more in your favour and the Duke ball has a bit more seam to work with. It's a bit reductive to only judge someone by the pace they bowl at, just look at someone like Mohammed Asif.
Good couple years in his career and then never pushed on. Sad story tbh. He had a lot of talent and potential to score easily 10k+ runs for India in tests and ODI.
LOL. You know who else bowled at 82 miles an hour and got a ridiculous number of test wickets, Mr Boycott? I'm sure you may have heard of this Aussie chap by the name of Glenn McGrath.
There's a difference between a medium pacer and a fast bowler. Both could operate at 135kph but McGrath got sharp nip out of the wicket and bird barely did
I wish I could see how Boycott would've fared against a bowling attack of Holding, Ambrose, Donald, Bumrah and Warne in Tests. I wish I were alive then to watch ball by ball of Boycott vs Holding from every face-off, not just the highlights of a few face-offs... And just saying, Boycott may have good technical knowledge now and give his opinion every now and then with loads of his ego added every time, but in his playing days he himself was far from the good technique that he sets as a benchmark for every batsman. The videos of his batting are there to see. It's easier said than done
@@willdavis6504 And in what way brilliant? I'm Indian btw and afaik, brilliant means extraordinary, exceptional, someone who'd score even off the good balls, while not getting out (I mean by playing proper shots, playing with 50+ SR while not being flashy at the same time) - like Sachin, Williamson. You need near-perfect technique and maximum practice for that. And Sir Geoffrey was someone who I've heard would even leave half volleys outside off stump. What's so brilliant/extraordinary in that? Any FC lvl batsman can do that, given full freedom to do so. Do you need good technique to leave half volleys? Or do you need good technique to score even a single off an outswinger on the corridor from a good length? When I watched his videos, the bowlers looked quick alr8 but his technique was nothing close to what he lectures every now and then (no problem with lecturing, what he SAYS is correct, but b4 CRITICISING someone else he should remember how tougher it was to do it himself than to opine). He didn't have good SR simply bcoz he wasn't good enough to score off the good ones simply bcoz he didn't have a good technique. AND ABOUT NOT GETTING OUT TO GOOD DELIVERIES FOR LONG PERIODS, I doubt whether he would've lasted long in front of the bowling attack I've chosen above even if you'd have said to him, "No need to score, just stay in there till stumps", looking at his own technique as compared to what he says good technique should be.
Vicky SS well he’s an opener his job is to soak up the new ball and sit in its not his job to be wafting at balls and have a high sr he done his job so he’s he was a brilliant batsmen
@@willdavis6504 1. Did Sachin, Williamson "waft" at balls? There's something known as technique. 2. His job was to soak up the new ball, fine, what after that? 😆 3. So a/c to you, whoever does the bare minimum in his job is "brilliant"? Google dictionary says quite the opposite. 4. Would he be able to do his job against the bowling attack I've mentioned in my main comment?
Vicky SS yep he was brilliant alongside a top average of 48 also Williamson doesn’t open so it’s a bit different to compare those boycotts was a brilliant player
@@RP-kr2mg Oh yes. He still said he'd a better technique than Gavaskar although that's fine, not criticism. What about Vaughan? In India we call something of that sort rallying and lobbying.
@@mrdaman99 hahaha yeah i know, not easy at the top of the order either, my point was i just completly forgot he came back to australia after that 13/14 ashes
boycott had even mentioned Anderson as a trash bowler but on the day he was struggling , boycott is a big mouth but in his heyday Boycott was a terrific batsman but terribly slow too . Still he along with indian Gavasker and pakistani Zaheer Abbas is considered the cricketing greats .
@@karthikbs9482 Actually, Geoffrey Boycoty hasn't said anything to Jackson Bird as compare to what he vented out about the English bowlers in that Ashes. He completely thrashed them while commenting and thrashed them even more in post match analysis. I think you should go check out his videos where he is unloading on English bowlers for being too slow for hard Australian wickets.
You maybe need to go to have an hearing test because he even references here, about the abuse the England bowlers were getting and was making a point that Bird was doing the same... Anyway, he was proved right because Bird has done nothing at International level, compared to the then England bowlers.
That’s literally bullying , that’s not game or sportsman sprit . Pretty sure geoff might got out on silly delivery or dropped silly catches. Speed is GOD gift else there will be so many out there
As a neutral fan here this is so rude and egoistic on boycott’s behalf. This old hag sounds like as if averages 99 just like bradman, how disrespectful is that for a newcomer and by the way anderson who is also in the range of 80-85 miles/hr gets wickets in english conditions only. Seriously someone has said right about respect, you don’t have to respect someone just because they are older than u, u must respect someone by looking at their conduct, boycott sounds so rude and he always humiliates the newcomers
Geoffrey boycott is such a big mouth. England lost this ashes series so badly by 4-0 and he still had the audacity to say sheffield shield has poor batsmen.
Each and everyone was of the view that Smith was a t20 player who could be handy with his leg spin in Asian conditions(the reason why he was included in world cup 2011). Although his 50 odd runs in his first ever ashes test did show some glimpse that he was a capable batter.
I just can't stand Geoffrey as a commentator. He is just *so* negative, negative, negative, all the time. Cricket is supposed to be something fun, and he brings everyone down. It's possible to be constructive, and have interesting things to say, and still be positive some of the time. See Benaud, Greig, Lawry, Atherton, Hussain, etc.
@@quick46 He averaged 40 over two series against the West Indies in 1980/81 at the age of 40 which i would say qualifies for a better verdict than "didn't do very well"
Boycs is known for undermining others in commentary box so no big deal, he is hardwired to comment nothing better, no matter how much of Yorkshire pudding is fed to him 😂😂
@@orkoprobhobhaduri7344 Very debatable, but what's your point? You're either as good as Dale Steyn or rubbish? Anderson has taken more test wickets than any seamer in the history of the game. Get in the bin.
Bhuvi was at his peak during 2016-2018(south africa tour). He could touch 140 km/hr sometimes. He got injured during IPL 2018 and since then there was a decline in him
To be fair to Jackson Bird the MCG pitch during this test was a bowler's graveyard.
Australia would have won but for the missed stumping when Cook was on 60 odd.
True. He basically died that day
Australia forgot to doctor it in their favour
Usually it favours the bowler more so the batsmen, that's why I like the MCG & GABBA good even contest between bat and ball unlike other grounds.
@@jacobburtonswfc Yes, every cricket nation does it its just that when it doesn't favour Australia they carry on like spoilt little 5 year olds.
He says "82 miles-an-hour" so many times that it feels like 50.
He says "82mph" and then the next ball is 82.0mph. Fucking world class commentary lmao.
Hah! You took the words right outta my mouth..😃
To Boycott, 82mph is snail speed.
What's all this malarcky? 😂
Say what you want about him, but he is always honest on his views, i remember when he was talking crap about Gambhir and the next ball he nicked it to the keeper.
I appreciate the honesty.. but his response to Gautam Gambit was unfair. Considering what Gambit has done for India.. what I recall he was criticizing Gambir after 2-3 year layoff and towards his last year of international cricket.
@@nealrutgerskid gambhir was a shit player in england
@@nealrutgerskid if Gambhir were in this generation, he wouldn't get in the National team. He's overrated
@@karanvij00 No he would've easily got into the team instead of Pujara and Rahane
@@Abhishek-ey6jo Lol!!!
Commentary absolutely brilliant. Need more commentary like boycott. Straight to the point and no messing.
No you're not ready for that.
Bhagwa Pikachu no society ain’t ready for truth being spoken.
It’s not brilliant commentary when he’s talking absolute rubbish
@Bhuvan Andhole He's just too much at times.
@Bhuvan Andhole Im not talking about that moment just a lot of other times were he has whole commentary panels cringing at how outspoken he is.
Who else was waiting for a wicket
😂😂😂
me
Besides the Australians? 😂
England's best bowler Jimmy Anderson was bowling 82mph at this stage. What shallow commentary. Bird has a decent record in the few games he played, and that pitch was a road. Boycs can sometimes be full of it.
Anderson still gets nip out of the wicket and bowls a discipline line and length
@@justadreamerforgood69 Agreed. But Boycs is fixating on Bird only bowling 82mph
@@racheedbarcamani
That's because Jackson Bird 🐦 is 82mph, doesn't bowl a decent line and line nor can he swing it 🤷🏻♂️
crickets Roy Keane
That is a very good analogy 😅😅
He could be Keano’s dad! He’s old enough to be!
Brilliant commentary! I wish we could have more people like sir geoffrey in this world. He always spoke his mind
you gotta be joking, he's the worst commentator ever like seriously.
And calling a racist and domestic abuser a Sir is stupid and maybe try not to look for European Validation
@@YashMezzala you're boring and a gawar. You won't get it bro. Chill. Tum akaash chopra ko suno
Geoffrey boycott is not a good commentator. He berates a player especially if they are not English. A commentator can criticise a player but they shouldn't keep on insulting a player ovet and ovet again. His commentary may look good in a short video but when you listen to it in an entire match it just becomes annoying.
@@shreyanshpranshuchauhan5991 what does ovet mean
@@kennysenior4241 over and over again*
He should also talk about English bowlers who can only bowl on green English Pitches...
You think he goes easy on English peeps, see some videos
He’s worse on England players. Trust me. There’s a reason he didn’t make or have many friends when he played for England. Hard man to please is an understatement to say the least.
England have won their last 2 away series.
And remind me when India last won a test series in England?
@@nick260682 it wasn't that long lol.
yo Mama's doodlestick
13 years is quite a long time!
The only batsman who would wait 8 days to get off the mark. The Peter Ebdon of cricket.
For a moment I thought he was talking about Jimmy! 😂
Anderson took 17 wickets @ 27 on this tour.
@@iPro3million is that really true mate
@@rjSayz yes
@@iPro3million Jimmy averages 35 in Aus. What again?
@@mother.95 can you not read? “ON THIS TOUR”
Funny he says that as most English bowlers are 70mph trundlers who get flogged in Australia ..even their greatest bowler Anderson😂
I know. Craig Overton bowls at early 120kpm, which is much lower than Bird. Criticising someone for bowling badly on a flat pitch is terrible.
I’m sure Steve Smith would agree
@Nit Lover Mark Wood regularly bowls well into the 90s, that's faster than anybody the Aussies have. Olly Stone is also a genuine quick around 90mph. And then there's Jofra, as Steve Smith will know.
I don’t think Anderson has ever bowled at 70mph. Weirdo.
Hoggard could take wickets at 83
And then Australia won 4-0
Typical straw man, what does that have to do with Jackson Bird?
Jack Bird played in one match in this series , and this was the one match, and Jack Bird did not take a wicket in the match, and in this match the result in a draw, which means the criticism off Jack Bird is valid.
@@outlawrip-offartist4161 the pitch was extremely flat. Its not like only Jackson Bird struggled.
@@outlawrip-offartist4161 but if I remember correctly he bowled one peach of a ball
But that Jackson Bird, as Saint Geoffrey declared, was still ROOBISH!
I remember watching this match, and a lot of people were saying the same thing boycott was saying.
I don't know if people are aware of this but Boycott was the slowest run scorer probably in the history of cricket and he is credited in Australia for the saying ( slower than a wet week ) . If you look up what does slower than a wet week means it genuinely says Geoffrey Boycott.
So what? What has that got to do with this?
Then u forgot inzamum ul haq
@@rajsub3884 you didn't understand the comment
true Botham once deliberately got hum out
Still was a great great batsman. Far better than anything England have today.
The way the commentator pronounced cut shot sounded like "cook"shot 0:17
I agree with Geoffrey.
I'm an Australian who follows South Africa and West Indies.
I don't rate Bird either.
Scott Boland is Australia's finest bowler over the past 15 months, very good average and economy rate.
What's Jackson Bird ever done?
Boland very good, can see him being a serious threat in english conditions
@@shylo8590 Yes.
I'd have Cummins, Boland and Morris.
Hazelwood 12th man.
Why isn't Boland in the ODI team?
He has the best economy rate........
Maybe he hasn't bribed anyone yet like Starc, Hazelwood have done.
@@garynewton1263
What about Neser ?
@@justadreamerforgood69 Yes Neser, you could make a case for K Richardson, J Richardson and M Perry too but its difficult
All I know is Cummins & Boland are the two definites.
I don't like Starc.
Hazelwood isn't brilliant.
I don't like Abbott at all.
I'd probably have;
1) Labushagne
2) Khawaja
3) Smith
4) Head
5) Handscomb
6) Green
7) Carey
8) Cummins
9) Murphy
10) Boland
11) Hazelwood
12th man) Lyon
Depending on what ground its being played on.
@@garynewton1263
Why not Starc ? He's Australia's best bowler by far when he's on form 🤷🏻♂️
He's very inconsistent tho
Jacko is a gun bowler. It's not all out and out pace
This commentator has had it all from racism charges to domestic violence ones. Nvm.
@@RP-kr2mg Boycott a racist? No way.
Not a good bowler at all
Now what does that mean? A gun bowler?
Vicky SS means he’s good in his opinion look it up
This is rich coming from Boycott! I’m a child of the sixties and remember well being bored to tears when he batted. I seriously doubt he would have had the aggression to smack him to the boundary. He would have raised his bat and let another scoring opportunity go by. 🥱
Not all batsmen need to be flashy mate. Boycott was a rock in the top order. Great batsman.
@@davidmarshall1455
Shame Boycott was indeed so mind numbingly boring to watch and such a selfish player/person to boot.
@@hyena131 Selfish how? England lost only 20 of his 108 matches, and thats mainly cause he failed. If you needed a rearguard to draw a match Boycott was your man.
Grant Hodges saw boycott come in in the last over for Yorkshire needing 6 a ball to win. He hit the first two or three for six but couldn’t get them home. He wasn’t quite as people remember him
David Marshall no one would dispute his application and concentration but seriously he excelled in a period when England thought a draw was as good as a win. The England you see and enjoy playing cricket today is largely due to the great Australian wicket keeper Rod Marsh who shaped the otherwise dour English team into a more aggressive team modelled on Australian sport in general.
Jackson Bird really wasn't that bad and to judge an international bowler solely on pace is a school boy thing to do.
Even if he didn't quite get it going at test level it's still just plain disrespectful. People forget how good shield and yes county cricketers are.
@@gleedameister Well said, you are correct 👏
It's not just about speed, it's also about the venom and nip that you're able to generate off the wicket which bird wasn't able to do
True, neither Glenn McGrath nor Shane Warne were that fast, but both would be considered to be in Australia's top 100 bowlers.
@@EarlJohn61 shane warne was a spinner. McGrath bowled a quickest ball of 92mph... Bird cannot get close to that I think
Jimmy bowls 82mph and averages 80 in aus conditions but lets not forget that he's apparently england's best. England must be a minnow side
He averages 35. Not great and his worst average of any country but not 80.
Lol if you have to make up stats he must be pretty good you bell end
Are you talking about Clouderson?
Averages 80 in Aus? Wtf are you talking about?
Flat tracks
Boycott still wouldn’t have got him off the square though
Explains why he averaged 48 in 108 tests
milo chapman yes by nudging 48 singles over the course of 2 days of cricket.
@@duke_hugo 😅😅
@@duke_hugo only 2 days?? 🤔🤭
more like 3 days and a session on day 4
This was a flat MCG wicket. Cook ended up carrying his bat through the innings and the match ended in a draw. Why criticise Jackson Bird
I subscribed to this channel recently and honestly Redmond Barry, I would love to see more cricket videos.
This is recommended after 3 years
The most BORING batter became a pretty fun commentator.
but thats why when he has good words for someone you know its for real .
Or you were born in Yorkshire 👍🏻
@@yorxshire :) not really , i have heard him talk well about other international teams and England players as well.
Boycott? Criticising Surely not - this is unheard of!!!! (It din't 'appen in my day!)
Easy to forget that England lost the series 4-0... Doubt he was saying the same thing about Ollie Robinson last ashes
Meanwhile Every English bowler be like: 82 mile an hour wiffy-waffer.
Don't concentrate on him. Australia thrashed England 4-0 which could have been 5-0 easily 😂😂😂.
I think that was his point, wasn't it? Don't get me wrong, Boycott at time can be a massive knob!
@@sayakmandal3240 he criticized England players as well it wasn't as if he was bias
He took 34 wickets in 9 matches at 30.6 in flat Aussie conditions so nearly 4 wickets a match at an average of 30. He dont even suck that bad. These are good stats for an Aussie bowler.
Better than clouderson
Wtf is a clouderson?
@@ryanwebb5082 Anderson....swings under cloudy conditions
Those stats are good if you play for India or West Indies , for Australia I don't think so.
edit: This is not a jab at Jackson Bird.Australia has a high bar for fast bowlers . Most of their matches are won by their fast bowlers.
@@ahmedshakib3883 These are good stats if bowling against good batting side like India, England, Australia poor bowling stats if bowling against poor batting sides like Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Kenya.
What people in the comments seem to forget as well is that this was the last Test he ever played. Some people in positions of influence in Australian cricket must have agreed with him.
His own bowlers are medium pace bowlers and he is criticizing jackson bird.. he is a good bowler he bowls on a good line and length..those days mcg pitch was a bowlers graveyard
Yeah true, the really fast ones are usually injured anyway
Bird is garbage. Doesn’t matter in the slightest what nationality Sir Geoffrey is; point is perfectly valid. Hardly being inspiring for Kent either.
he is talking about jackson bird like if most english international bowlers cant bowl past 85 besides archer, jordon, board and wood and anderson sometimes. he does have a point tho i do have to admit
Tell me a cricketer who boycott didn't criticize? Lol
Vishvesh Tadsare good cricketers
@@zeeqayum4834 and he considers himself good? Always scored at snail's pace and gave lectures on techniques. Lol
Vishvesh Tadsare
The only cricketer Geoff Boycott never criticized was/is Geoff Boycott.
Prince of kolkata-Saurav Ganguly..boycott was a huge fan
@@nikhilgadre7851
It was a tongue in cheek question based on what a miserable, critical bastard Boycott is. If you asked Boycott if he rated Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards, Kohli, Sobers, Kallis, Joe Root, Andy Flower, Hashim Amla, Tendulkar, Steve Smith, Gavaskar, Sangakkara, Lara, Miandad, Alistair Cook, Dravid, Labuschagne, Ponting, Kane Williams, Gilchrist, Steve Waugh, etc, etc (you get the picture), of course he'd give them the thumbs up. The point is he's very negative and critical with many players and cricket in general.
"In my day it were different..."
Absolutely on the money again, Geoffrey.
I was expecting some aussie bird named Jackson to come in between and stop the match for a while and hence boycott boycotting, i mean criticizing him
😂😂
Can't wait till he sees Mohammad Abbas bowl
World class bowler, but Boycott will probs roast him due to his lesser pace 😂😂
@@saivishnu494
World Class is used too leniently these days
Think Geoffrey forgot that England bowlers only bowled around 82 mile an hour then, even now they have wood and archer, who aren’t great either
Archer had one of the greatest spells ever, but rest of England bowlers are slow medium pacers who are shit overseas
nukiepie had is the key word. He’s been bang average in tests ever since
Austin Bishop Archer will fail in test cricket because of his attitude towards bowling fast. He is so overrated
zee qayum at the moment I think he’s very overrated, even though he’s Australian I hope he turns out a great bowler it’ll make England a chance of winning a test here
@@zeeqayum4834 what is your problem with English cricketers I don’t understand. Have no idea what country you’re from but can only assume we gave your team a battering.
"82 mph?" Jimmy Anderson cant even bowl that fast shut up Geoffrey
Yeah but Jimmy's got 600 test wickets so he's doing something right. How many wickets has Bird taken?
Anderson bowls mid 80s even now at 37 and can swing the ball in and out massively and late.
Jimmy bowls between 83 and 86 generally, were is bird now?
@@Beastgrows Most of those wickets came on doctored pitches. If he won't have been a pom won't have even picked 50 wickets
@@ShivamC287 15 years of playing cricket and just one 5-fer in Aus loooool. Pulls out of every tours for the sake of average. haha. Most useless bowler a team can have for overseas lmao
Ashes tests in Australia are as pointless as the Scottish Premiership
He gave poor Jackson the bird.....
People get obsessed about the speed gun. When Jofra Archer came on the scene, people would get outraged if he bowled anything less than 90 mph and accused him of not putting in the effort. Australia is a tough place to play if you are a medium-pacer, it's much easier in England when the conditions are more in your favour and the Duke ball has a bit more seam to work with. It's a bit reductive to only judge someone by the pace they bowl at, just look at someone like Mohammed Asif.
Gambhir truly flat track pony . Absolutely true .
Where did he talked about him in this video ?
Stupid
@magesticmaniacc Yeah? On a pitch New Zealand made 500 on you plonker
@magesticmaniacc So it was a flat track lad?
Good couple years in his career and then never pushed on. Sad story tbh. He had a lot of talent and potential to score easily 10k+ runs for India in tests and ODI.
Little he knew that 4 yeard later, 82 mph would be the fastest ball in the County championship
Lol Boycott salivating at the thought of leaving one of those 82mph short balls go safely through to the keeper.
LOL. You know who else bowled at 82 miles an hour and got a ridiculous number of test wickets, Mr Boycott? I'm sure you may have heard of this Aussie chap by the name of Glenn McGrath.
It wasn't always 82... He mixed it up... And with his consistency of line, length and a touch of movement ...even 82 would have been just fine
There's a difference between a medium pacer and a fast bowler. Both could operate at 135kph but McGrath got sharp nip out of the wicket and bird barely did
bro even the batsmen caught the strays lmao
Glenn McGrath bowled accurately though Jackson bird was bowling wide
Boycott right on the momeu again.
I wish I could see how Boycott would've fared against a bowling attack of Holding, Ambrose, Donald, Bumrah and Warne in Tests. I wish I were alive then to watch ball by ball of Boycott vs Holding from every face-off, not just the highlights of a few face-offs... And just saying, Boycott may have good technical knowledge now and give his opinion every now and then with loads of his ego added every time, but in his playing days he himself was far from the good technique that he sets as a benchmark for every batsman. The videos of his batting are there to see. It's easier said than done
Mate boycott was a brilliant batsmen in his own right extremely boring but batted long and saw his job out
@@willdavis6504 And in what way brilliant? I'm Indian btw and afaik, brilliant means extraordinary, exceptional, someone who'd score even off the good balls, while not getting out (I mean by playing proper shots, playing with 50+ SR while not being flashy at the same time) - like Sachin, Williamson. You need near-perfect technique and maximum practice for that. And Sir Geoffrey was someone who I've heard would even leave half volleys outside off stump. What's so brilliant/extraordinary in that? Any FC lvl batsman can do that, given full freedom to do so. Do you need good technique to leave half volleys? Or do you need good technique to score even a single off an outswinger on the corridor from a good length? When I watched his videos, the bowlers looked quick alr8 but his technique was nothing close to what he lectures every now and then (no problem with lecturing, what he SAYS is correct, but b4 CRITICISING someone else he should remember how tougher it was to do it himself than to opine). He didn't have good SR simply bcoz he wasn't good enough to score off the good ones simply bcoz he didn't have a good technique. AND ABOUT NOT GETTING OUT TO GOOD DELIVERIES FOR LONG PERIODS, I doubt whether he would've lasted long in front of the bowling attack I've chosen above even if you'd have said to him, "No need to score, just stay in there till stumps", looking at his own technique as compared to what he says good technique should be.
Vicky SS well he’s an opener his job is to soak up the new ball and sit in its not his job to be wafting at balls and have a high sr he done his job so he’s he was a brilliant batsmen
@@willdavis6504 1. Did Sachin, Williamson "waft" at balls? There's something known as technique.
2. His job was to soak up the new ball, fine, what after that? 😆
3. So a/c to you, whoever does the bare minimum in his job is "brilliant"? Google dictionary says quite the opposite.
4. Would he be able to do his job against the bowling attack I've mentioned in my main comment?
Vicky SS yep he was brilliant alongside a top average of 48 also Williamson doesn’t open so it’s a bit different to compare those boycotts was a brilliant player
4 years now
Boycott criticizing someone...??? Who'd ever think.
Whom hasn't he criticised, except himself?
@@vickyss8772 Sunil Gavaskar. Not a made up answer, search it up. He believes himself to be the second best batsman of his era after Gavaskar.
@@RP-kr2mg Oh yes. He still said he'd a better technique than Gavaskar although that's fine, not criticism. What about Vaughan? In India we call something of that sort rallying and lobbying.
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Fair point. Everyone knows Boycott loves Boycott...
Michael Vaughan and Geoffrey Boycott on commentary... doesn't get much worse than that
Mrs Bird, ladies and gentlemen.
Vaughan's not so bad... I'd be willing to swap him for Brayshaw & Fleming.
(you get 2, I get 1)
*[better yet, you keep Vaughan, & we'll take Lloyd.]*
Boycott criticises everyone, except Boycott.
I forgot that Al Cook played in this series after the absolute humbling he got at the hands of johnson and harris 4 years earlier
Calmn down man.
He was a pretty good player. Every batsman gets one such bowler in his career who just owns them
@@mrdaman99 hahaha yeah i know, not easy at the top of the order either, my point was i just completly forgot he came back to australia after that 13/14 ashes
Jimmy Anderson also an 82 mile an hour
So Geoffrey what was your opinion on Anderson averaging 76 with the ball during the past ashes? He'd probably blame Jackson Bird for that too.
Very good telented player jackson bird
Art of outswing and inswing
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What about sam curran he barely bowls 80
Swings it and is good with the bat and often makes a breakthrough.
@@pulseofages he's crap overseas, only good bowling english conditions
He has the gift of swing, Bird is a wannabe speedster
@@lavarball61 He seems to carrying CSK so far. You are wrong on every account
@@mother.95 In test matches only
Bird is the quintessential English bowler - great when conditions suit but largely useless when they don’t.
He reminds me of Paul Reiffel, who actually did quite well in England. Alderman was another trundler who got stacks of wickets on English pitches.
Why are people in comments supporting Geoffrey ?
He dont talk about the England medium pacers who got flogged in that series lol
boycott had even mentioned Anderson as a trash bowler but on the day he was struggling , boycott is a big mouth but in his heyday Boycott was a terrific batsman but terribly slow too . Still he along with indian Gavasker and pakistani Zaheer Abbas is considered the cricketing greats .
He does
@@TheBeast-mr1qy he doesnt
@@karthikbs9482 Actually, Geoffrey Boycoty hasn't said anything to Jackson Bird as compare to what he vented out about the English bowlers in that Ashes. He completely thrashed them while commenting and thrashed them even more in post match analysis. I think you should go check out his videos where he is unloading on English bowlers for being too slow for hard Australian wickets.
You maybe need to go to have an hearing test because he even references here, about the abuse the England bowlers were getting and was making a point that Bird was doing the same... Anyway, he was proved right because Bird has done nothing at International level, compared to the then England bowlers.
well geoff, I'd rather watch JB bowl than watch you bat....
Lol fair. Not the most entertaining player
Geoffrey!!! My boy.
That’s literally bullying , that’s not game or sportsman sprit . Pretty sure geoff might got out on silly delivery or dropped silly catches. Speed is GOD gift else there will be so many out there
Boyc’s spot on, as usual. 😂
I defy anyone to bowl effectively on that road.
I have a feeling Boycs wouldn't give a rats about the comments posted here.
As a neutral fan here this is so rude and egoistic on boycott’s behalf. This old hag sounds like as if averages 99 just like bradman, how disrespectful is that for a newcomer and by the way anderson who is also in the range of 80-85 miles/hr gets wickets in english conditions only. Seriously someone has said right about respect, you don’t have to respect someone just because they are older than u, u must respect someone by looking at their conduct, boycott sounds so rude and he always humiliates the newcomers
about the only time i have disagreed with boycott
Careful Geoffrey Aussies don't like it when you criticise there players. All there players are the best in the world remember.
their*
@@haz486 fair dinkum sorry bout that mayyyte.
Geoffrey Boycott wasn’t probably half as good as he blabbers tbh
He was tbh
Is geoffrey still exists😨
Rod marsh called boycott the most selfish cricketer he knew.
Boycott is the most useless cricketer
What about glen mcgrath..its not about pace always..its about using brain too
Geoffrey boycott is such a big mouth. England lost this ashes series so badly by 4-0 and he still had the audacity to say sheffield shield has poor batsmen.
Boycott is flipping the Bird.
Boycott also heavily criticized Steve Smith when he came on the scene. He doesn't know shit
Each and everyone was of the view that Smith was a t20 player who could be handy with his leg spin in Asian conditions(the reason why he was included in world cup 2011).
Although his 50 odd runs in his first ever ashes test did show some glimpse that he was a capable batter.
Taking the Mickey out of 82 😆😅
Cheers jeff
Give the guy a break
michael Holding will criticise Indian players for the sake of it
and England still couldn't win a test
bird would have as many wickets as Anderson if he played and grew up in English conditions.
Okay but Bird doesn't even have as many wickets as Jimmy has in Australia!
@@vickyss8772 on point
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That's because Bird played less Tests than Jimmy in Australia
Absolute Legend
I just can't stand Geoffrey as a commentator. He is just *so* negative, negative, negative, all the time. Cricket is supposed to be something fun, and he brings everyone down. It's possible to be constructive, and have interesting things to say, and still be positive some of the time. See Benaud, Greig, Lawry, Atherton, Hussain, etc.
Miss Geoffrey..
He is still alive
Boycott was lucky he didn't had to face Windies fast bowling quartet
He did, he didnt do very well, but most people didnt
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Almost no one did lol
@@quick46 He averaged 40 over two series against the West Indies in 1980/81 at the age of 40 which i would say qualifies for a better verdict than "didn't do very well"
Boycs is known for undermining others in commentary box so no big deal, he is hardwired to comment nothing better, no matter how much of Yorkshire pudding is fed to him 😂😂
That is unfair and harsh
Boycott is a legend !
Remember the days when the commenter told truths. Now we just get fed bullshit
Isn't gentle swinger jimmy the same, jeff? King in overcast england and beggar otherwise
Anderson has taken 256 test wickets away from home...
@@collinslfc 😂😅😆😁 so? Dale steyn is far better
@@orkoprobhobhaduri7344 Very debatable, but what's your point? You're either as good as Dale Steyn or rubbish? Anderson has taken more test wickets than any seamer in the history of the game. Get in the bin.
I think Geoffrey boycott should be boycott from commentry
Thank God he hasn't seen Bhuvi🤣
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Bhuvi was at his peak during 2016-2018(south africa tour). He could touch 140 km/hr sometimes. He got injured during IPL 2018 and since then there was a decline in him
Jackson Bird would probably have a few hundred wickets by now if he was a pom.
The King of Calkutta 😂
Prince
Pot, kettle.
What are you on about?
"Cook has cut the Bird to make a great feast"