LONDON, Jan 27: Former Test captain Geoffrey Boycott says he felt insulted by the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) decision to keep him out of an Ashes review panel and to put him in the category of journalists.

Boycott, who covered England’s recent Ashes series against Australia, was invited along with journalists for lunch and not for the review of England’s performance Down Under.

“I care about England and felt that my experience and knowledge were of value and would have happily interrupted my holiday in South Africa to attend a review,” he said. “But obviously the ECB values my experience and knowledge so much that they have grouped me with a number of ‘journalists’ who covered the Ashes tour, and invited me to attend a lunch in London on Feb 22.

“They might as well have not bothered to pay me lip service,” he wrote in his column for Daily Telegraph.—Agencies