He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

67 and then scored 1000 runs including a then career-best of 215 at 54. His mother had died a week before he left to captain the England tour to the West Indies which ended in a 5–0 defeat (Gower's second at their hands). Domestic career
Gower made his debut for Leicestershire on 30 July 1975 during that season's County Championship against Lancashire at Stanley Park Blackpool.

As of February 2013 he holds the record of 119 consecutive innings without registering a duck in Test cricket. Nevertheless he ended with an impressive record in First-class cricket accumulating 26339 runs at an average of 40. The strained relationship between the pair contributed to Gower retiring from international cricket in 1993.