Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 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.…
  • Crikey oreilley

    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…
  • Azeem rafiq and brian close

    16 September 2015
    Brian Close, who died on 14 September at the age of 84, was one of the most remarkable of English…
  • Farewell my lovely wikipedia

    24 August 2015
    So there it is. Eighteen days of hectic, sometimes bizarre cricket and the 2015 Investec Ashes is all over. There…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    26 July 2015
    Can a cricket team" bounce back" from a defeat by a margin of 405 runs? This is the task facing…
  • Giant departs wiki

    7 June 2015
      CC BY-SA 4.0 : Image: Kumar Sangakkara batting in his final ODI in Sri Lanka.JPG   Where does Kumar…
  • Glove on and off

    3 June 2015
    Image: By Aravind Sivaraj (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons New Zealand had an interesting selection quandary…
  • All square lords test match

    3 June 2015
    England v New Zealand in a Test match at Lord's, May 2004. Image by Peter Meade  licensed under  CC BY 2.0 As…