Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 14 March 2015
    The target for India was 288. The score, as Sikander Raza prepared to bowl the last ball of the 35th…
  • 28 February 2015
    "MITCHELL STARC" by NAPARAZZI  under CC BY-SA 2.0 It's been an entertaining World Cup but if it had lacked anything…
  • 27 February 2015
    Batting is a very technical thing, far more technically demanding than most sporting endeavors. It is physically demanding and the…
  • group of players at end of match

    21 February 2015
    This Pool B match at Christchurch between the World Cup's two most unpredictable teams was, well, unpredictable. Both sides were…
  • Featured on the Island

    16 November 2014
    Misbah ul Haq is surely one of the most remarkable cricketers of the current era. I was going to say…
  • England batsman Kevin Pietersen plays at shot on the morning of the 3rd day of the 1st Test of the 2013 England v Australia Ashes series at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.

    13 October 2014
    Image: England batsman Kevin Pietersen plays at shot on the morning of the 3rd day of the 1st Test of…
  • 1 September 2014
    Statue of Truemen. Image by Immanuel Giel licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported “He is the best bowler…
  • 31 August 2014
    Fawad Alam batting for Pakistan during a 50-over warm-up match against Somerset at the County Ground, Taunton. Image by Harrias…
  • 19 July 2014
    Mahela Jayawardene will depart from Test cricket after the home series against Pakistan in August with an array of records…
  • From the press box ( at the Pavilion End) Sri Lanka v South Africa, Galle , July 2013

    17 July 2014
    On an attritional day of old- fashioned Test cricket South Africa put themselves in a position from which it is…