Author: Bill Ricquier

  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    20 October 2021
    “It is not the strongest squad England have taken to Australia – nor is it the weakest.” This was Mike…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    1 October 2021
    It is impossible for a genuine cricket follower to feel anything other than sadness and dismay at the sudden cancellation…
  • 31 August 2021
    In the bad old days overseas teams especially from the so-called new Commonwealth – not Australia, South Africa and New…
  • 28 July 2021
    It looks as though The Hundred might actually work. I haven’t actually watched any of it myself, for the various…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    11 July 2021
    Is cricket too boring? It may seem a strange question to ask but it isn’t really. Writing this on the…
  • 26 June 2021
    There cannot be many genuine cricket followers, even in the subcontinent, who weren’t, if only subconsciously , happy at the…
  • 13 June 2021
    It’s not difficult to see why New Zealand are in the World Test Championship (WTC) final and England aren’t, on…
  • 6 June 2021
    A couple of weeks ago I wrote that being a cricket person in Singapore is fine because these days so…
  • 31 May 2021
    I wrote about Darren Stevens a few years ago (The Old Fox, July 2018: I think it still holds up).…
  • 15 May 2021
    When did (male) professional cricketers start to look the same? Of course I don’t mean that literally. Notwithstanding the panoply…