Year: 2020

  • Lord's at dusk

    20 June 2020
    There it is, in the diary: Thursday 25 June, Lord’s. I had two tickets for each of the first four…
  • 14 June 2020
    Opening batsmen are different; there are no two ways about it. It is obvious why they are different. Opening the…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    6 June 2020
    This is not a history of close fielding; that will have to come later. This is more in the nature…
  • 1 June 2020
    A number of friends – some not even cricketing friends really – alerted me to the passing, a couple of…
  • 19 May 2020
    We’re now in mid-May, and, if all was right in the world, the West Indians ought to be arriving in…
  • 10 May 2020
    Wisden arrived this week. Of course one always has to wait a little while for it in Singapore, but wherever…
  • 10 May 2020
    This is a chapter from The Indian Masters, published originally in 2015 The 2004 edition of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack has…
  • 2 May 2020
    My most recent post, on the little masters Tendulkar and Gavaskar, and the not so little Kohli, generated such a…
  • 26 April 2020
    I write this on Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th birthday. He made his Test debut, against Pakistan in Karachi, a month before the…
  • 19 April 2020
    I remember listening to an interview with a batsman – a right-handed batsman, I just can’t remember who it was…