Former England cricketer Geoffrey Boycott, who is not exactly famous for his love of the sea, has quipped that his discomfort at the thought of faring alone at sea for ten months, was the same a fish would feel if asked to bat on a cricket ground.
According to the Guardian, the England legend was answering a query by his fellow broadcaster Jonathan Agnew during the afternoon session discussion on the third day of third Ashes Test on BBC Radio 4's Test Match Special.
Giving a swift comeback to Agnew's challenge that it will be difficult for Boycott to survive alone at sea for ten months, the former cricketer said that as fish cannot bat, so they would be even.
Before the start of the third Test, Boycott had slammed the theory of Australia recovering enough to win the next three Tests and regain the Ashes, saying that 'pigs might fly' before something like that happened in this series.
Boycott said that at that time, Australia had the 'greatest run machine' Sir Donald Bradman batting for them with scores of 13, 270, 26, 212 and 169, adding that there is no 'genius' in the current Australian squad to turn the series around like Bradman did.
