{"id":682461,"date":"2026-01-08T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:15:10","slug":"geoffrey-boycotts-ban-as-scarborough-cricket-president-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682461\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Boycott&#8217;s ban as Scarborough cricket president lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The letter revealed that the club&#8217;s then-board members resigned en masse before a meeting on 7 December, after a group of ex-players gained &#8220;sufficient support&#8221; to attempt to oust and replace them on the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said four members of the new board had been &#8220;elected with handsome majorities&#8221; after which Sir Geoffrey&#8217;s suspension was lifted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Known for his rigorous approach to surviving at the crease, Sir Geoffrey played 108 Tests for England between 1964 and 1982 before later becoming a plain-speaking commentator and pundit on the BBC&#8217;s Test Match Special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The letter revealed that the club&#8217;s then-board members resigned en masse before a meeting on 7 December, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-682461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115860139716676091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}