Five cricket commentators and their favourite phrases

#5 Geoffrey Boycott – “My mum/gran could have caught that in her pinny!”

Boycott is one of the most recognisable figures in commentary

The former England opening batsman Geoffrey Boycott enjoyed a long career at the top of the England and Yorkshire batting orders and found, remarkably, almost equal success in the commentary box - if only for the gems that were his favourite phrases that have been repeated and good-naturedly reinvented.

The elder female members of Boycott's family, if one was to believe what the man himself said on the mic, were excellent, international standard fielders who would simply gobble up chances most others would miss. A ‘pinny’ is a sleeveless piece of clothing that is worn on top of other clothes for protective and/or decorative reasons, like an apron. Given than the ladies wouldn’t even need to use their hands, one wonders why England did not contact them to represent their country on the cricket field.