Author: Bill Ricquier

  • The fear of the nineties, gently questioned

    13 November 2016
    When play ended on the first day of the first Test between India and England at Rajkot, the England left…
  • On cricketers who defy the passing years

    16 July 2016
    In the week that Theresa May became the oldest person to enter 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister since James…
  • Cricketing families, and talent handed down

    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…
  • Where have all the slow left-armers gone?

    21 May 2016
    Where have all the slow left armers gone? It is a question especially pertinent to English cricket. England almost always…
  • The short game dazzles, and poses hard questions

    14 April 2016
    The recently concluded World T20 was a fantastic celebration of cricket. It displayed the shortest form of the game at…
  • The game's second home, seen up close

    25 March 2016
    Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia.…
  • How much the game has altered, and how fast

    22 March 2016
    Image: "The famous duck: Bradman bowled by Bowes at the MCG, in front of a world record crowd assembled to…
  • Stokes joins a rare club of double-centurions

    14 February 2016
    When Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2016 he became the second Englishman in…
  • The fiftieth carried bat, and the art of it

    1 January 2016
    The Boxing Day Test between South Africa and England at Durban saw the fiftieth instance in Test cricket of a…
  • Why captains still hesitate over the follow-on

    16 December 2015
    Nobody could have been surprised by the result of the First Test between Australia and the West Indies at Hobart.…