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NZPA-AFP Sheffield The controversial dual role of Yorkshire’s former England batsman, Geoff Boycott, as a player and committee member will end later , this year. At the club’s annual general meeting yesterday the county’s members approved a new constitution by a landslide 91.98 per cent, preventing Boycott from holding both posts from September. The voting was 3374 for and only 310 against, after
a powerful plea for support by the re-elected president, Lord Mountgarret. Boycott’s supporters also suffered reverses in the district elections, with a former England captain, Brian Close, claiming the Bradford seat and Antony Roberts, another anti-Boy-cott candidate, winning Craven. Boycott himself is in the West Indies, writing on the England team’s tour for a London newspaper.
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