Sir Michael Parkinson has revealed that his new book was inspired by revisiting Barnsley Cricket Club, where he played as a young man, with Geoff Boycott and Dickie Bird
cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott and international umpire Dickie Bird at Barnsley Cricket Club to reminisce about their time playing together – the first time in around 60 years they had all been together at the ground on Shaw Lane.
As young men, the three miners’ sons were stalwarts of the 1st XI in the 1950s. At the time, county player Bird and Parkinson, who was working as a local newspaper reporter, initially kept Boycott, the youngest of the trio, out of the team and were playing when he made his debut.County Cricket Club trials in his day, has now revealed to The Telegraph in a follow-up interview that the encounter last spring inspired him to write his latest book, My Sporting Life.
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