This is pretty interesting what Boycott said. I wonder myself too if Australia was the opponent, would England still have been woken up?

Boycott upset at England decision

Geoff Boycott has hit out at the England team's decision to spend Sunday night watching the BBC Sports Review of the Year instead of staying in bed.

Andrew Flintoff and some team-mates were woken up in the early hours in Pakistan to be a part of the broadcast.

Boycott said: "If England had been playing a one-dayer against Australia, would they have stayed up then?

"If you're playing a big match you shouldn't be breaking your sleep. Do they not regard Pakistan as a threat?"

England lost Monday's match in Lahore by seven wickets after notching up just 230.

Flintoff, who had to stay up until past 3am to receive his BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, failed to score with the bat and took 1- 30 in eight overs.

England's only batting successes were Liam Plunkett (56) and Vikram Solanki (39), both of whom missed the television event as they had not been involved in last summer's Ashes. (this is very true)

England's Test team was given the award for Team of the Year for their series defeat of Australia, while Andrew Flintoff was named Sports Personality.

Boycott told BBC Sport: "It's not the best preparation. It's not what I feel is right.

"I'm sure the players will all put their hands up and say it didn't affect them, but how the hell do they know?

"The two guys who went to bed and had eight hours sleep batted very well.

"You expected more. We were never in the game once the batting failed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/4521852.stm

As always, great excuse!

This isn't really an excuse. He is just asking if they don't see Pakistan as a threat. That's the importance in this story.

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guys this is a funny one, i was listening to his full interview on the radio and he said that England can stay up all nightwhen they play Bangladesh then he said they cant play> !!!

well let england take pakistan easily and let them loose the series

well let them do what they want pakistan still the best inshallah we will win all the way!

i don't know if it's fair to england to say they don't regard pakistan a worthy opponent, but if they do so, they underestimate our might at their own peril. this 2nd ODI should be a big eye-opener for them and they should realize they carried almost zero momentum from their victory in the first match. pak always bounces back after a defeat early in the series so england need to realize they have to really play according to a gameplan if they have any chances of succeeding in pakistan and even india.

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I'd like to see things from your point of view, but I can't insert my head that far up my a**.

i agree with Marcus when he rebuked the statement made by Boycott .. Infact what it shows is that England easily lose sight and really don't regard Pakistan that bigger threat.

The strange thing is that during the BBC awards (yesterday) Vaughan started to talk about they need to win in Australia the Ashes series to claim to be the Number 1 in the world. I guess he forgot to mention the beating they suffered again Pakistan.

For me a World Champion in Test Series you can only be if you beat convincely all the top nations, like the Aussies did. Since Pakistan beat England, I don't see them as champions, even if they win in Australia.

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haha..another excuse...they should take this seriously especially now coz afridi is back..hahah.if they did stay up to see this show. they made a mistake coz pakistan is a very strong team right now. and they r capable of beating any team in this world.

He didn't mention it coz he didn't want to..they lost miserably in pakistan and I don't think he would want to include something like this in his speec..he was probably still bragging about his team in ashes and how they won the series.

Actually he didn't need to mention that Pakistan beat them. But he just could have said in his speech that their team need to work harder if they want to beat the Aussies at home. In that indirect way it's better to say it.

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Well, I really dont give a flying faddoo what they did the night before but as long as they perform no one should complain. If they had won, boycott would have been all praises of them. Everyone tends to come up with excuses when a team losses..and its not just England..even in pak it happens.

inshallah they should remain awake more often...lol...nice excuse though and sure we are really not that great a team, so enjoy england...enjor

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it was stupid....