Author: Bill Ricquier

  • Edgbaston 2

    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…
  • Andrew strauss

    6 June 2021
    A couple of weeks ago I wrote that being a cricket person in Singapore is fine because these days so…
  • Darren stevens 2

    31 May 2021
    I wrote about Darren Stevens a few years ago (The Old Fox, July 2018: I think it still holds up).…
  • Rahkeem cornwall 2

    15 May 2021
    When did (male) professional cricketers start to look the same? Of course I don’t mean that literally. Notwithstanding the panoply…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    8 May 2021
    I had an email from an old friend this week, asking if we would be able to catch up in…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    2 May 2021
    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) must have been dreaming that people would come to compare its controversial new…
  • First test england v west indies

    29 March 2021
    My wife, Anita, has a theory about life during the wretched pandemic, which has now been with us for roughly…
  • Three of a kind

    10 February 2021
    Joe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century…
  • Twos comapny

    1 February 2021
    It is a truism that cricket is all about partnerships. The record books are full of statistics about batting partnerships.…
  • India australia 4th test

    21 January 2021
    Even the game’s administrators might at last begin to realise what every genuine cricket person has always known: that there…