Year: 2016

  • 30 December 2016
    How common is it for a Test side to lose by an innings after making 400 or more first time…
  • 17 December 2016
    Sri Lanka tend not to travel well. That is a generalisation of course, and like most generalisations, is a little…
  • Cook batting during the third Test during the 2013 Ashes in England. England won the series 3–0; it was Cook's first Ashes series as captain.

    14 December 2016
    "Cook Batting,2013" CC BY-SA 2.0, Image credit to Nic Redhead from Birmingham, UK The subcontinent is always a challenge for touring…
  • 13 November 2016
    When play ended on the first day of the first Test between India and England at Rajkot, the England left…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    16 July 2016
    In the week that Theresa May became the oldest person to enter 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister since James…
  • 20 June 2016
    Flying from Singapore to London to watch England's third Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's, I found myself watching an…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    21 May 2016
    Where have all the slow left armers gone? It is a question especially pertinent to English cricket. England almost always…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    14 April 2016
    The recently concluded World T20 was a fantastic celebration of cricket. It displayed the shortest form of the game at…
  • 25 March 2016
    Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia.…
  • 22 March 2016
    Image: "The famous duck: Bradman bowled by Bowes at the MCG, in front of a world record crowd assembled to…