Author: Bill Ricquier

  • An old photograph opens a window on the past

    5 April 2020
    I saw an intriguing picture the other day while leafing through a book called Cricket – The Golden Age by Duncan Steer.…
  • Records are made to be broken - and cherished

    28 March 2020
    Records are made to be broken. That is certainly true of sport. In some ways it is almost the point…
  • Murali or Warne? An unanswerable question

    28 March 2020
    Who was the greater bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne?  Such questions are almost impossible to answer. This is obviously…
  • The day the pandemic reached the crease

    15 March 2020
    On Friday 14 March 2020 COVID-19 made its first impact on international cricket, and we had our first, decidedly untantalising…
  • A rare away dominance stirs fresh hope

    31 January 2020
    Rarely can an England Test side have enjoyed such dominance in an away Test series against major opposition as they…
  • New Zealand's quiet strength, England's shortfall

    27 November 2019
    Should we be surprised that New Zealand are ranked number two in the ICC’s Men’s Test rankings? Hardly. They have…
  • Two drawn series, forty-seven years apart

    17 September 2019
    England and Australia achieved something very rare at The Kia Oval on Sunday. An Ashes series was drawn two-all for…
  • The finest Ashes in a decade, finely poised

    10 September 2019
    This has been the best Ashes series for some time, probably since 2009. In 2015 England won 3-2, which makes…
  • Pakistan's great leg-spinner, fondly remembered

    10 September 2019
    The great Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir died last week. This article about him first appeared in my book, The Pakistani…
  • You don't win from there - except this once

    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…