Author: Bill Ricquier

  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    27 May 2015
    If there is a better Test match this Ashes summer than the first Test between England and New Zealand at…
  • England and their england pixabay flag 315186 640

    16 May 2015
    Could things get any worse? Could the level of performance sink even lower? Well , it seems the answer is…
  • Adelaide Oval - The sky is red, and the heart bleeds blue by Rajiv Bhuttan

    21 March 2015
    Image: The South Australian skies turned a magical red on the day that India and Pakistan opened their account at…
  • Raina rains on taylor parade pixabay water drop 275938 640

    14 March 2015
    The target for India was 288. The score, as Sikander Raza prepared to bowl the last ball of the 35th…
  • A day for heros naparazzi mitchell starc

    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…
  • Be prepared pixabay cricket 390139 640

    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…
  • Broken record fred trueman 01

    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…