BOYCOTT 261 n.o. Best score of career

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33443, 26 January 1974, Page 48

BOYCOTT 261 n.o. Best score of career

< Z .V. Z. /* .4. -R e liter—Copy rig hl) BRIDGETOWN (Barbados). G. Boycott made the highest score of his career at Bridgetown yesterday as the M.C.C. cricketers reached four for 511 runs declared by tea on the second day of their four-day match against the West Indies Board President’s team.

Boycott, eliminating all risks in an innings which lasted 9hr 25min, reached 261 not out by the declaration. His previous best scores were 260 not out, made for Yorkshire against Essex in the 1970 English county championship, and 243, for the M.C.C. against Barbados in 1968. The President’s teain was hampered by injuries to its two fast bowlers, A. Roberts and M. Holding. The M.C.C. declared just before tea. In the final 95 minutes, the M.C.C. fast bowlers, G. Arnold, R. Willis and C. Old. each took a wicket, leaving the President’s team —regarded as virtually a West Indies second eleven—on 65 runs for the loss of three wickets at the close. Scores:—

M.C.C. 511 for four wickets dec. (Bovcott n.o. 261. D. L. Amiss 109. K. W. R. Fletcher 70). President’s XI 65 for three (C. G. Greenidge 37).