Sir Geoffrey Boycott celebrates still 80th birthday with wife, daughter during Yorkshire castle

Sir Geoffrey Boycott distinguished his 80th birthday on Wednesday in a Yorkshire palace with his mother Rachael, daughter Emma, her father Jeff and grandson Joshua.

Had it not been for a lockdown, a England batting good competence have had a incomparable jubilee though Boycott sounded gay over a low-profile birthday party.

He also threw in a cricketing comparison to COVID-19. “I faced some of a fastest of bowlers, though this [pandemic] is some-more dangerous since we could during slightest see those bowlers and what they unleashed; not so in this case,” he remarked.

Boycott sought special accede to transport to a palace and will lapse to his Boston Spa home today.

He has not given adult his excellent robe of job a scoop a spade. Earlier this month, he tweeted: “Early birthday present. Soon to be 80, my state grant is to boost by 25 pence a week!! Which gormless simpleton suspicion that one up. How’s it going to assistance ? Can’t even buy a parcel of nipping resin for that.”

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