Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 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.…
  • A curious name, and the game's odd corners

    7 December 2015
    Crikey O'Reilly !! Crikey O'Reilly ? Is Crikey O'Reilly the latest Irish cricketer to make his debut for England in…
  • An underwhelming final, and a fond farewell

    24 September 2015
    For much of the game there was a slightly underwhelming feel about the Royal London One -Day Cup Final between…
  • One of the game's bravest and most singular men

    16 September 2015
    Brian Close, who died on 14 September at the age of 84, was one of the most remarkable of English…
  • Eighteen bizarre days, and the urn retained

    24 August 2015
    So there it is. Eighteen days of hectic, sometimes bizarre cricket and the 2015 Investec Ashes is all over. There…
  • Can a side recover from a 405-run thrashing?

    26 July 2015
    Can a cricket team" bounce back" from a defeat by a margin of 405 runs? This is the task facing…
  • Where Sangakkara stands among the greats

    7 June 2015
      CC BY-SA 4.0 : Image: Kumar Sangakkara batting in his final ODI in Sri Lanka.JPG   Where does Kumar…
  • New Zealand's intriguing selection dilemma

    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…
  • A Lord's Test recalled, level and unresolved

    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…