Author: Bill Ricquier

  • India and Pakistan, where cricket is never only cricket

    21 March 2015
    Image: The South Australian skies turned a magical red on the day that India and Pakistan opened their account at…
  • A last-ball finish spoils a farewell

    14 March 2015
    The target for India was 288. The score, as Sikander Raza prepared to bowl the last ball of the 35th…
  • The World Cup finds the drama it needed

    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…
  • Batting, and the making of a technique

    27 February 2015
    Batting is a very technical thing, far more technically demanding than most sporting endeavors. It is physically demanding and the…
  • The tournament's two wild cards, true to form

    21 February 2015
    This Pool B match at Christchurch between the World Cup's two most unpredictable teams was, well, unpredictable. Both sides were…
  • Misbah-ul-Haq, the unlikeliest of leaders

    16 November 2014
    Misbah ul Haq is surely one of the most remarkable cricketers of the current era. I was going to say…
  • Pietersen, and the man who never quite fitted

    13 October 2014
    Image: England batsman Kevin Pietersen plays at shot on the morning of the 3rd day of the 1st Test of…
  • Trueman's mark, and the weight of records

    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…
  • Fawad Alam, and how a batsman reveals himself

    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…
  • Records aplenty, yet the debate endures

    19 July 2014
    Mahela Jayawardene will depart from Test cricket after the home series against Pakistan in August with an array of records…