Initially omitted from the squad and battling illness throughout the tournament, Gareth Bland examines the role of the great Javed Miandad in Pakistan’s 1992 World Cup triumph
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With World Series Cricket disbanded,West Indies made their first post-Packer tour to England in 1980. Gareth Bland reappraises the tour.
In front of a packed Lord’s Nat West semi-final crowd in 1983, Ian Botham rescued Somerset from almost certain defeat in one of his finest innings. Gareth Bland looks back on one of the all-rounder’s greatest performances and one of the tournament’s most unlikely finishes
David Gower’s tourists were pitted against a Caribbean team at the very height of its powers. Gareth examines the series and its effects on both teams, with the 5-0 scoreline heralding the end of an epoch for an unparalleled West Indies team moulded by Clive Lloyd in the Packer era.
At the pinnacle of his career as a bowler in 1983, Imran Khan suffered a career-threatening stress fracture of the shin. What might have happened had he stayed fit and his improving Pakistan team toured the Caribbean that spring?