Year: 2021

  • 29 December 2021
    The Boxing Day Test saw Test cricket at its best. No, really. And I am not echoing Chris Silverwood’s inevitable…
  • 24 December 2021
    “…Anderson and Broad declined to pitch the ball up.” This is from Lawrence Booth’s match report of the second Test…
  • 5 December 2021
    With English cricket still reeling from the shame and embarrassment of the Azeem Rafiq saga, and with actual cricket not…
  • 18 November 2021
    In all of English cricket’s long history, there have been few more chilling, more harrowing, days than  16 November 2021.…
  • 5 November 2021
    Had this preview been written earlier, it would have been very different. The sudden and unexpected announcement that the England…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    20 October 2021
    “It is not the strongest squad England have taken to Australia – nor is it the weakest.” This was Mike…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    1 October 2021
    It is impossible for a genuine cricket follower to feel anything other than sadness and dismay at the sudden cancellation…
  • 31 August 2021
    In the bad old days overseas teams especially from the so-called new Commonwealth – not Australia, South Africa and New…
  • 28 July 2021
    It looks as though The Hundred might actually work. I haven’t actually watched any of it myself, for the various…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    11 July 2021
    Is cricket too boring? It may seem a strange question to ask but it isn’t really. Writing this on the…