Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 17 September 2020
    The former England batsman Ian Bell has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of this slightly unreal…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    13 August 2020
    What should we make of the first (unsponsored) Test between England and Pakistan at Old Trafford? Of course the first…
  • 8 August 2020
     The relationship between England and Pakistan as cricketing nations has always been “interesting”.  Things started to go wrong almost as…
  • 30 July 2020
    Is Sam Curran in your best England Test eleven? Well all right, twelve? Er, thirteen? Selection is a strange business…
  • 13 July 2020
    With the passing of Sir Everton Weekes in early July, cricket lost the last survivor of perhaps its greatest and…
  • Lord's at dusk

    20 June 2020
    There it is, in the diary: Thursday 25 June, Lord’s. I had two tickets for each of the first four…
  • 14 June 2020
    Opening batsmen are different; there are no two ways about it. It is obvious why they are different. Opening the…
  • Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views

    6 June 2020
    This is not a history of close fielding; that will have to come later. This is more in the nature…
  • 1 June 2020
    A number of friends – some not even cricketing friends really – alerted me to the passing, a couple of…
  • 19 May 2020
    We’re now in mid-May, and, if all was right in the world, the West Indians ought to be arriving in…