Year: 2020

  • 27 December 2020
    There could hardly have been a more appropriate way of bringing the weird and often wonderful international cricket calendar year…
  • 3 November 2020
    I made (at least) two misstatements in my piece on John Reid. The first was that New Zealand’s Tests against…
  • 18 October 2020
    John Reid, the former New Zealand captain, who died last week at the age of 92, was one of the…
  • 12 October 2020
    Whatever one’s views on Britain’s honours system, nobody is going to begrudge the award of an MBE to the former…
  • 28 September 2020
    The cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the…
  • 17 September 2020
    The former England batsman Ian Bell has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of this slightly unreal…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    13 August 2020
    What should we make of the first (unsponsored) Test between England and Pakistan at Old Trafford? Of course the first…
  • 8 August 2020
     The relationship between England and Pakistan as cricketing nations has always been “interesting”.  Things started to go wrong almost as…
  • 30 July 2020
    Is Sam Curran in your best England Test eleven? Well all right, twelve? Er, thirteen? Selection is a strange business…
  • 13 July 2020
    With the passing of Sir Everton Weekes in early July, cricket lost the last survivor of perhaps its greatest and…