Talk:Geoffrey Boycott

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Geoffrey Boycott's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Test high score":
From List of international cricket centuries by Ian Bell: 
From List of international cricket centuries by Ross Taylor: 
From Martin Crowe: 
Reference named "1st Test 100":
From List of international cricket centuries by Ian Bell: 
From List of international cricket centuries by Ross Taylor: 
From Martin Crowe: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 02:59, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I addressed this for you!  will you marry me? Horsesizedduck (talk) 00:05, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Geoffrey Boycott]] 

message: The article currently says "In 1974 Boycott's form dipped, when he scored only 75 runs in the first innings of the season, other than a non-championship century against Cambridge University". I assumed that the problem here was that "first innings" should have said "first 6 innings" or whatever, so I set out to find out how many innings Boycott took to score his first 75 runs. However, I can't find that figure of 75 anywhere using the records of the 1974 English first-class season at Cricinfo (http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1974/ENG_LOCAL/). Yorkshire's first matches in that season were as follows:
1. 1-3 May v Cambridge University (Boycott 140)
2. 8-10 May v Northamptonshire (Boycott 1 and 17)
3. 16-19 May v Oxford University (Boycott 89)
4. 22-24 May v Warwickshire (Boycott 15)
5. 25-28 May v Lancashire (Boycott 41 and 89*)
The only way I can get close to 75 is by omitting the Oxford University match (as well as the Cambridge University match), and also ignoring the 89* in the second innings of the Lancashire match. That would give 1, 17, 17, 41 for a total of 74 and an average of 18.50. But by the end of the Lancashire match his total was 163 with an average of 40.75, which seems quite respectable. And what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; in the seasons where he averaged over 100 I imagine that his innings against the universities were included, and if we do that here, his average after 5 matches was 65.33.
I am a fairly conservative editor, and I don't like deleting statements outright, but it seems to me that "In 1974 Boycott's form dipped" is not justified, at least by the scores of the first few games of the season.
STeamTraen (talk) 18:45, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Start of 1974 season