Geoffrey Boycott’s Test Batting Record
Geoffrey Boycott’s 108 Tests, 8,114 runs and 22 centuries, with innings, not-outs and a clear note on the published average.
Geoffrey Boycott scored 8,114 runs in 108 Tests for England, with 22 centuries and a highest score of 246 not out. His international career ran from 1964 to 1982.
Career figures
The ICC’s Hall of Fame profile records his matches, runs, hundreds and a batting average of 47.72. Howstat’s career table supplies the innings, not-outs, fifties and opening-position breakdown.
| Statistic | Test career figure |
|---|---|
| Matches | 108 |
| Innings | 193 |
| Not-outs | 23 |
| Runs | 8,114 |
| Batting average, as listed by ICC | 47.72 |
| Highest score | 246 not out |
| Centuries | 22 |
| Double-centuries | 1 |
| Half-centuries | 42 |
| Catches | 33 |
Boycott opened in 191 of his 193 Test innings. The 246 not out was both his highest Test score and his only Test double-century.
No career strike rate is shown because Howstat does not supply a complete balls-faced total for this record. That missing denominator is different from a measured scoring rate of zero.
Why another source shows a different average
A batting average divides runs by dismissals, rather than by all innings. Boycott’s 193 innings and 23 not-outs give 170 dismissals.
Dividing 8,114 by 170 produces 47.729411… . Conventional rounding gives 47.73, which Howstat displays; the ICC displays 47.72. This table consistently uses the ICC figure. The sources do not explain the display difference, and it does not change the underlying career totals.
Keep Tests and first-class cricket separate
Boycott’s Test record concerns his England appearances. His much larger first-class record includes county cricket and should not be mixed into this table. In particular, his 151 first-class hundreds are a different total from his 22 Test centuries.
His Test career began against Australia in June 1964 and ended against India in January 1982, spanning approximately 17 years and seven months. He finished as England’s leading Test run-scorer at the time; that is a historical distinction, not a claim about the current record.