Author: Bill Ricquier

  • A dark day the English game cannot ignore

    18 November 2021
    In all of English cricket’s long history, there have been few more chilling, more harrowing, days than  16 November 2021.…
  • A preview upended by late departures

    5 November 2021
    Had this preview been written earlier, it would have been very different. The sudden and unexpected announcement that the England…
  • Neither the strongest squad, nor the weakest

    20 October 2021
    “It is not the strongest squad England have taken to Australia – nor is it the weakest.” This was Mike…
  • When cancelled tours betray the game itself

    1 October 2021
    It is impossible for a genuine cricket follower to feel anything other than sadness and dismay at the sudden cancellation…
  • Mercurial, maddening - the roles have reversed

    31 August 2021
    In the bad old days overseas teams especially from the so-called new Commonwealth – not Australia, South Africa and New…
  • Against expectation, The Hundred may just work

    28 July 2021
    It looks as though The Hundred might actually work. I haven’t actually watched any of it myself, for the various…
  • Is cricket really as dull as they say?

    11 July 2021
    Is cricket too boring? It may seem a strange question to ask but it isn’t really. Writing this on the…
  • New Zealand's quiet, deserved ascent to the summit

    26 June 2021
    There cannot be many genuine cricket followers, even in the subcontinent, who weren’t, if only subconsciously , happy at the…
  • Why New Zealand reached the final and England did not

    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…
  • A cricket person's fond regard from afar

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