Geoff Boycott is a former England cricketer famous for his pithy points of view and being a gruff and gritty Yorkshireman. Boycott Bingo consists of crossing off a square every time Boycott uses one of his stock phrases eg:-.
Boycott is noted as having invented the phrase “corridor of uncertainty”
I reckon my mum could have caught that in her pinny
Ah don’t want t’offend anybody, Ah just tell t’troowth
Fred Trueman (any Mention)
Yorkshire (Any Mention)
I could have hit that with a stick of celery/rhubarb
It’s all about the footwork
ho ho that ball was wasted on thee lad
You could book in for a bed and breakfast on this wicket
No more brains than a pork pie
Time in the middle is better than any amount of nets
The best place to see fast bowling is from the non-strikers end
Now ‘ee’s got an undred he’s got ter knuckle down fer a really big score
Add two wickets to the score
Smashing shot, really, really smashin’, you could pay money just to watch that
Facing fast bowling: To have some idea what it’s like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he’s 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.
Geoffrey Boycott
The game itself is a spoof as everyone wins every time!
Cricket commentators are normally concerned to be fair and just but not Boycs whose forthright views are often so refreshing.
The game was invented during the England Pakistan Test August 2010 by someone on TMS Test Match Special. Cricket as a sport has attracted many humorous comments due to the long periods of not much going on! English Cricket Fans have (had to) developed a certain Schadenfreud over the years.
One of my favorite anecdotes was when he told the story of somebody in the Yorkshire Dressing Room who foolishly tried to stand up to Fred Trueman. Boycs is also famous for scoring runs incredibly slowly and thus actually lost his place in the English Test Team; it must be said this was at a time when the West Indian fast bowlers reigned supreme.
See a link here to a photo of the Boycott Bingo Card.
Cricket commentary is becoming an art-form with a pack of zany characters such as Phil Tufnell (Tuffers) and Henry Blofield (Blo-ers) who talks about the buses going by.
I have splendid memories of Brian Johnson and colleagues keeping up a running commentary on a rainy day when no cricket at all was played. The most famous cricket quote was “The bowler’s Holding, the batsmen’s Willey” by Brian Johnston Oval Test 1976, England -v- West Indies. Also the related : Jonathan Agnew had suggested that Ian Botham, in being out hit wicket had failed to “get his leg over”. Jonners went into uncontrollable giggles and uttered “Aggers for goodness sakes stop it!”
Geoffrey Boycott Quotes Collection. You will never pay your mortgage by winning Boycott Bingo but you will have a laugh.