Gareth Bland recalls the final Test match in the career of England fast bowler Bob Willis, where the Warwickshire legend’s bowling was destroyed by West Indies’ number 9 Michael Holding.
Gareth Bland profiles the beleaguered Australian captain Michael Clarke, who can look to an illustrious predecessor, Allan Border, for inspiration as he attempts to raise his side’s game ahead of The Ashes
Gareth Bland looks back at a promising Test career sadly curtailed by injury: the Australian batsman Martin Kent played just three times, all in Botham’s Ashes summer of 1981
Following Martin’s December feature, Gareth Bland considers the significance of England’s first post-terrestrial world star, the brilliant Alastair Cook
Christopher Martin-Jenkins will be much missed by cricket followers for his contribution to both broadcast and print media. In this belated appreciation Gareth Bland pays tribute.
It was an exciting, tense series that came just months before the Packer rupture. Gareth Bland recalls Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies in early 1977.