Gareth Bland - ARTICLES

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

Gareth Bland looks back to 1978/79 when India and Pakistan renewed their cricketing rivalry after a gap of almost 18 years.

At Trent Bridge in 1965 the 21 year old Graeme Pollock struck one of the most celebrated of all Test centuries. Gareth Bland revisits the innings

Debates have always raged about technical standards in the English game. Gareth Bland revisits a notable example from the Wisden of 1980

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.

Was Sir Ian Botham’s record against West Indies quite as bad as it looks on paper? In this feature Gareth Bland weighs up the evidence.

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.