Sir Geoffrey Boycott has had successful surgery to remove a tumour from his neck, his family has revealed.
The 83-year-old former England batsman announced earlier this month that he had been diagnosed with the disease for a second time after undergoing extensive chemotherapy in 2002.
Boycott, who scored 151 first-class centuries for Yorkshire and England between 1962 and 1986 and made 8,114 runs in 108 Tests, said on social media on July 2: “In the last few weeks I have had an MRI scan, a CT scan, a PET scan and two biopsies and I have now been diagnosed with throat cancer and will require surgery.”
I wanted to let everyone know that my father Jeffrey had a successful 3 hour surgery to remove throat cancer this evening. I haven’t seen him yet, but the surgeon said he did well. He asked me to post an update. @Babyboyx
— Sir Geoffrey Boycott (@GeoffreyBoycott) July 17, 2024
But in an update on Wednesday, his daughter Emma posted: “Just to let everyone know, my dad Jeffrey came out of surgery this evening after a three-hour surgery to remove cancer in his throat.
“I haven’t seen him yet, but the surgeon said it went well. He asked me to post an update.”
After retiring from first-class cricket, he turned to commentating, working on the BBC’s Test Match Specials for 14 years before stepping down in 2020.
