MARTIN JOHNSON
As Test Match Special listeners are well aware, the Boycott formula for passing judgment on a bowler is how many runs Geoffrey’s mother would have plundered off him. “Ma moom could play ‘im wi’ a stick of rhubarb” is an old favourite, often without Mrs Boycs having to take off her pinny, and sometimes while carrying on with the ironing between deliveries.
Left arm medium pacers who don’t swing or seam it would certainly qualify, apart perhaps from a chap who used to play for India in the 1970s. Eknath Solkar was his name, and every ti...
