Author: Bill Ricquier

  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    14 April 2016
    The recently concluded World T20 was a fantastic celebration of cricket. It displayed the shortest form of the game at…
  • 25 March 2016
    Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia.…
  • 22 March 2016
    Image: "The famous duck: Bradman bowled by Bowes at the MCG, in front of a world record crowd assembled to…
  • England cricket team walks out line abreast

    14 February 2016
    When Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2016 he became the second Englishman in…
  • 1 January 2016
    The Boxing Day Test between South Africa and England at Durban saw the fiftieth instance in Test cricket of a…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    16 December 2015
    Nobody could have been surprised by the result of the First Test between Australia and the West Indies at Hobart.…
  • 7 December 2015
    Crikey O'Reilly !! Crikey O'Reilly ? Is Crikey O'Reilly the latest Irish cricketer to make his debut for England in…
  • Geraint Jones celebrates with Gloucester.

    24 September 2015
    For much of the game there was a slightly underwhelming feel about the Royal London One -Day Cup Final between…
  • 16 September 2015
    Brian Close, who died on 14 September at the age of 84, was one of the most remarkable of English…
  • 24 August 2015
    So there it is. Eighteen days of hectic, sometimes bizarre cricket and the 2015 Investec Ashes is all over. There…