The Sir Geoffrey Boycott Collection is one of the last great collections of cricketing memorabilia left in private hands. Chronicling the career of the Yorkshire and England legend, the sale begins with a scorebook noting a young ‘J Boycott’ scoring 9 not out for Ackworth Cricket Club and builds to a crescendo at lot 100, the bat used by Sir Geoffrey to score his 100th century, which came against Australia in 1977. This group of objects traces the history of one of international cricket’s most famous periods from the mid-1960s through to the 1980s and forms a unique mix of items from English cricket’s historic matches and others belonging to global cricketing greats. Cricket bats signed by Boycott, Botham, Willis, Gooch and Gower are interspersed with Greg Chappell’s baggy green, Michael Holding’s signed shirt from ‘that famous over’ and West Indian caps worn by Sir Vivian Richards and Sir Clive Lloyd.