Author: Bill Ricquier

  • Not so nervous 90s

    13 November 2016
    When play ended on the first day of the first Test between India and England at Rajkot, the England left…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    16 July 2016
    In the week that Theresa May became the oldest person to enter 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister since James…
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    20 June 2016
    Flying from Singapore to London to watch England's third Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's, I found myself watching an…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    21 May 2016
    Where have all the slow left armers gone? It is a question especially pertinent to English cricket. England almost always…
  • 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…
  • Watching cricket sri lanka 3

    25 March 2016
    Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia.…
  • Things have changed wikipedia

    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…
  • Keep on batting pixabay cricket 155965 640

    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.…