CRICKET’S odd couple of the commentary box last did their extra-curricular double act on North Yorkshire soil in January.

Since then England have had a “strange year”, their captain Cook has been deemed no match for Great Ayton’s sea travelling version, and Yorkshire have won the county championship. Oh, and Geoffrey has a new book out, The Corridor Of Certainty.

Plenty of fresh fodder for coal miner’s son and statistics-bothering batsman Boycott and public schoolboy farmer’s son and steady seamer Jonathan Agnew to chew over, backed up by written and tweeted questions from the audience in the second half.

The relationship works like it would on the field: Agnew, the bowler, asks the questions; Boycott, the batsman, dispenses them to the boundary, always through the covers, never a streaky four to third man. Agnew’s manner is deceptively slightly apologetic; Boycott is unapologetic. “Difficult? No..I don’t suffer fools easily; I’ve taken to you Jonathan,” he says with a chuckle.

Agnew combines the journalist with the psychiatrist and the chat-show host in his probing; Boycott is trenchant, pugilistic, an original thinker and a mischievous storyteller, in praise of others, such as fellow Yorkshire characters Graham Stevenson, David Bairstow and Dickie Bird, and at his own expense.

They play Mastermind. “And your specialist subject is?” asks Jonathan. “Me,” says Geoffrey. “You have two minutes on....” starts Jonathan, “Only two minutes,” retorts Geoffrey, self-aware now, where once he was self-righteous.

The show covers some of the same ground as in Harrogate nine months ago, but this night was even better for Boycott’s verdicts on Cook, Kevin Pietersen’s exit and his recollections of his tongue cancer. The absence of unnecessary, unfunny Harrogate third man Andy Parsons allowed Boycott and Aggers’ combative chemistry to fizz even more.