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.
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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.
Gareth Bland recalls one of the most fascinating limited overs tournaments of the 1980s. Only one week long, the Perth Challenge featured England, Australia, Pakistan and West Indies.
This week Gareth reviews a book that examines the 1978/79 Ashes series as it was played out against the backdrop of World Series Cricket.
With South Africa now at the summit of the international game, Gareth Bland looks back to the country’s darkest episode since its re-admittance to the fold almost twenty-one years ago
New Zealand’s greatest ever batsman turns 50 today. Gareth Bland pays homage and recalls Martin Crowe’s maiden Test hundred.
Geoff Boycott is known for his firm, sometimes trenchant, views on the game and how it should be played. This week Gareth reviews his thoughts, as they were shortly after his playing career ended.
One of the most celebrated and elegant batsmen of the modern era retired from international cricket this week. Gareth Bland examines the appeal of VVS Laxman.
To his devotees the greatest all-round cricketer since Sobers; to his critics a flat-track bully who fails to dominate against the best. Gareth Bland examines the extraordinary career of Jacques Kallis.