Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 20190917 Ashes Parity edit

    17 September 2019
    England and Australia achieved something very rare at The Kia Oval on Sunday. An Ashes series was drawn two-all for…
  • Joy for Paine

    10 September 2019
    This has been the best Ashes series for some time, probably since 2009. In 2015 England won 3-2, which makes…
  • Cricket Pakistan Tour of England Nets Lord's

    10 September 2019
    The great Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir died last week. This article about him first appeared in my book, The Pakistani…
  • England v Australia 3rd Specsavers Ashes Test: Day Four

    26 August 2019
    It’s not supposed to happen. You don’t win Test matches after being bowled out for 67, at least not in…
  • 20190803 The Apotheosis of Steven Smith

    3 August 2019
    Whatever happens in the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston - England are slightly ahead on points, as it were, as…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    27 July 2019
    Come on everyone! It’s England v Ireland at Lord’s! And we’re going back to the nineteenth century!It really did seem…
  • Presentation grab final

    16 July 2019
    That’s the rule. Even England, the side all neutrals wanted to lose (after the elimination of India) can’t be blamed…
  • 2019 CWC FPE

    13 July 2019
    The two semi-finals of the 2019 men’s Cricket World Cup could hardly have been more different from one another. Yet…
  • ICC Cricket World Cup

    9 July 2019
    The so-called group stage of the 2019 men’s Cricket World Cup has been an unqualified success. Group stage seems odd…
  • England v Sri Lanka at Headingley

    22 June 2019
    Many spectators in a capacity crowd at Headingley must have been disappointed by the result of the toss; Sri Lanka…