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鈥淗i Roy, this is Geoffrey Boycott, I wish you well in the World Cup, but I think you are going to have to play a lot better than we think you are,鈥� said the former England cricketer in a recorded message to the England football manager.

鈥淚f you play as bad as the England cricket team did in Australia, when they lost five nil and they were awful, don鈥檛 come home,鈥� said the Test Match Special presenter.

Geoffrey Boycott's advice to the players on how to cope with the heat was to 鈥渕entally tell themselves they鈥檙e not tired鈥� drawing on his own experience playing around the world. He also said to Roy Hodgson "you've been brave in your selection" so "now go for it".