After assessing the Test match careers of Sir Ian Botham and Sir Richard Hadlee against West Indies, Gareth Bland focusses on Kapil Dev in this feature.
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Gareth Bland pays tribute to the recently retired South African captain; a player who can justly claim to have been one of the great leaders of the modern age
Gareth Bland assesses Sir Richard Hadlee’s Test match record against West Indies.
Gareth Bland revisits the greatest shock in World Cup history: the humbling of West Indies in 1996 by 500-1 outsiders Kenya
Very few cricket books have a genuine claim to being classics, but this week Gareth Bland reviews one that most certainly has
Gareth Bland revisits Derbyshire’s victory in the inaugural Nat West Trophy in 1981
Following England’s 5-0 Ashes defeat, Gareth Bland looks over hostilities and also examines England’s four previous five Test series whitewashes.
Gareth Bland recalls England’s controversial tour of New Zealand in 1983/84.
Gareth Bland recalls the first of four consecutive World Cup semi-finals featuring Pakistan. This one, against West Indies at The Oval in 1979, was a case of so near yet so far.
Gareth Bland profiles Garth Le Roux, South Africa’s speed merchant from the isolation years of the 1970s and 1980s