Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 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…
  • Rangana Herath bowls left arm over the wicket

    13 February 2018
    Rangana Herath did something remarkable in Sri Lanka's comfortable win over Bangladesh in the second Test at Mirpur. In taking…
  • Close up of Steve Smith playing a pull shot

    25 January 2018
    It was yet another deeply disappointing Ashes series. It wasn't just Australia's crushing margin of victory. The fact is that…