Boycott in gong row
He is never short of a word or three and yesterday Geoff Boycott stepped in to the verbal joust between Shane Warne and Paul Collingwood that punctuated the third day of the fifth Test.
Warne taunted Collingwood during his crucial innings at the SCG yesterday by questioning his right to have been awarded an MBE for his part in England's Ashes triumph of 2005.
Collingwood played in just the final Test at The Oval and contributed 17 runs to the England cause.
"For 18 years England failed to win the Ashes and when they finally did all hell broke loose," said Boycott on BBC Radio Five Live's Ashes podcast.
"They all got gongs. I scored 8,000 runs and played a hundred Tests before I got one (Boycott was awarded the OBE in 1980) and what did he score? Seventeen runs? And the others played five Tests to get one? I feel so bad about mine I'm going to tie it around my cat. It's a joke."
