Year: 2018

  • Floodlight through mist with rain sodden pitch

    12 August 2018
    The weather is peculiarly important in cricket. Of course, it can be critical to any sort of activity that is…
  • Close up of Kohli

    6 August 2018
    Of course the problem is that Test cricket is so boring. It is seriously doubtful that even the head of…
  • Imran Khan sitting in outfield

    31 July 2018
    This article first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has been updated following Imran's success in the general…
  • 31 July 2018
    This article first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has been updated following Imran's success in the general…
  • 31 July 2018
    This is the third and final part of an article that first appeared in my book, The Pakistani Masters. It has…
  • 16 July 2018
    The first Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa at the Galle International Stadium was an interesting but ultimately disappointing…
  • Barry Richards walks off to applause

    8 July 2018
    Before the English summer of 1968 the cricket authorities relaxed the applicable rules so that each county could hire an…
  • 2 July 2018
    The so-called showpiece one-day Lord's final - in its current incarnation, The Royal Lindon One -Day Cup - has undoubtedly…
  • 10 June 2018
    England managed to redeem themselves and draw the (absurdly short) Test series against Pakistan with an emphatic innings victory in…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    29 May 2018
    Have England produced, in living memory, a worse performance than that served up to three successive full houses at Lord’s…