Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 22 April 2024
    English cricket recently lost one of its great performers in the left-arm spinner Derek Underwood. No England spinner took more…
  • 7 April 2024
    India’s four-One victory over England can hardly be described as a shock, still less a surprise. Before going any further,…
  • 1 February 2024
    At close of play on an action-packed first day of the first Test at Hyderabad, India were 119 for one…
  • 31 January 2024
    This article was originally published in Scoreline magazine. You can download a PDF version here. Men’s international cricket had plenty…
  • 26 November 2023
    Is COVID the explanation for everything that has happened since? Time is a curious and mysterious concept and the pandemic…
  • 10 November 2023
    The game between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in Delhi, the 38th game of the tournament, was not without interest to…
  • 6 November 2023
    The Men’s Cricket World Cup has been great fun to watch. I say this despite having made some public predictions…
  • 24 October 2023
    Of the Indians who have played county cricket since the easing of the qualification rules in 1968, only Farokh Engineer…
  • 23 October 2023
    “ Litotes?”, a friend said in response to my WhatsApp message that my prediction regarding the Men’s Cricket World Cup…
  • 27 September 2023
    [External link] Empires come and go. Sporting ascendancy is equally, and inevitably, ephemeral. Few sporting giants, however, can have been…