Year: 2021

  • 26 June 2021
    There cannot be many genuine cricket followers, even in the subcontinent, who weren’t, if only subconsciously , happy at the…
  • 13 June 2021
    It’s not difficult to see why New Zealand are in the World Test Championship (WTC) final and England aren’t, on…
  • 6 June 2021
    A couple of weeks ago I wrote that being a cricket person in Singapore is fine because these days so…
  • 31 May 2021
    I wrote about Darren Stevens a few years ago (The Old Fox, July 2018: I think it still holds up).…
  • 15 May 2021
    When did (male) professional cricketers start to look the same? Of course I don’t mean that literally. Notwithstanding the panoply…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    8 May 2021
    I had an email from an old friend this week, asking if we would be able to catch up in…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    2 May 2021
    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) must have been dreaming that people would come to compare its controversial new…
  • 29 March 2021
    My wife, Anita, has a theory about life during the wretched pandemic, which has now been with us for roughly…
  • 10 February 2021
    Joe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century…
  • 1 February 2021
    It is a truism that cricket is all about partnerships. The record books are full of statistics about batting partnerships.…