Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 16 July 2018
    The first Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa at the Galle International Stadium was an interesting but ultimately disappointing…
  • Barry Richards walks off to applause

    8 July 2018
    Before the English summer of 1968 the cricket authorities relaxed the applicable rules so that each county could hire an…
  • 2 July 2018
    The so-called showpiece one-day Lord's final - in its current incarnation, The Royal Lindon One -Day Cup - has undoubtedly…
  • 10 June 2018
    England managed to redeem themselves and draw the (absurdly short) Test series against Pakistan with an emphatic innings victory in…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    29 May 2018
    Have England produced, in living memory, a worse performance than that served up to three successive full houses at Lord’s…
  • playing an off drive

    25 May 2018
    Ireland's men made a remarkably promising start to their Test careers (the women are ahead of them) despite losing to…
  • Taking a catch to his right

    24 April 2018
    If, nine months ago, a random group of informed Cricket followers had been asked to state who would be keeping…
  • 30 March 2018
    Ball-tampering is one of cricket's great taboos, up there with throwing and match-fixing. Any doubt one might have had about…
  • 27 March 2018
    In the space of a few days in February two players on the fringes of the England Test squad, Yorkshire's…
  • English batsman plays stroke with NZ slips in background

    21 March 2018
    England's mildly catastrophic Ashes series is to be followed by a two-match Test series in New Zealand. On the face…