Unfit in cricketing ability so much as to tie up Boycott's bootlaces

Yorkshire were involved in another of those internal disputes which have been so much a part of their recent history. A clash between Ray Illingworth, manager of the Yorkshire team, and Geoff Boycott, hallowed by many of his fellow Yorkshiremen, revealed Headingley as a hotbed of dissension, with sides being manifestly taken. It seems an absurdity when young members of the Yorkshire team, unfit in cricketing ability so much as to tie up Boycott's bootlaces, were asked to vote on whether or not they wanted to play with him any more

J. Woodcock, 'Notes by the editor', id. (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1982), 90