Cricket tremendous and former England captain Geoffrey Boycott, 83, was readmitted to the hospital days following a throat cancer operation.
The former cricketer underwent a three-hour operation on Wednesday to remove the malignancy after his throat cancer was discovered in early June.
Boycott was released from the hospital on Friday following the successful removal of a malignant tumor from his throat; however, he is again back under hospital supervision due to the development of pneumonia.
In an X post from his family, they thanked everyone for wishing him well, adding that things had taken a dark turn. With his pneumonia, he can’t breathe, eat, or drink.
After undergoing rigorous chemotherapy in 2002, Boycott disclosed in July that he had been diagnosed with the cancer again.
In 108 Tests for his nation, the former Yorkshire and England hitter collected 8,114 runs, including 22 hundred, at an average of 47.72. Over two decades, he earned 48,426 runs in first-class cricket. After Boycott retired from playing in 1986, he spent 14 years working on the BBC’s Test Match Special. He resigned from his broadcasting post in 2020.
Throughout his stellar playing career, Boycott became one of England’s all-time best hitters, amassing 8114 runs in Tests for his country from 1964 to 1982, good enough to put him seventh all-time.
Boycott scored 151 hundreds and amassed over 48,000 runs in first-class cricket for Yorkshire throughout his domestic career.
He left cricket in 1986 and went into broadcasting, where he was a member of the BBC Test Match Special commentary team for 14 years until 2020.
He said that his decision to move away from analysis was in part motivated by his 2018 quadruple heart bypass.
Boycott has been incredibly resilient with his illnesses of the past two decades. Everyone is hoping he has another successful fight left in him.
