Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 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…
  • 29 March 2021
    My wife, Anita, has a theory about life during the wretched pandemic, which has now been with us for roughly…
  • 10 February 2021
    Joe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century…
  • 1 February 2021
    It is a truism that cricket is all about partnerships. The record books are full of statistics about batting partnerships.…
  • 21 January 2021
    Even the game’s administrators might at last begin to realise what every genuine cricket person has always known: that there…
  • 2 January 2021
    Cricket people love debating whether a particular player is great or simply very good. “Great” tends to be over-used but…
  • 27 December 2020
    There could hardly have been a more appropriate way of bringing the weird and often wonderful international cricket calendar year…
  • 3 November 2020
    I made (at least) two misstatements in my piece on John Reid. The first was that New Zealand’s Tests against…
  • 18 October 2020
    John Reid, the former New Zealand captain, who died last week at the age of 92, was one of the…