Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 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…
  • The evergreen Darren Stevens, still going strong

    31 May 2021
    I wrote about Darren Stevens a few years ago (The Old Fox, July 2018: I think it still holds up).…
  • When did every cricketer start to look alike?

    15 May 2021
    When did (male) professional cricketers start to look the same? Of course I don’t mean that literally. Notwithstanding the panoply…
  • An old friend, and cricket's long journeys

    8 May 2021
    I had an email from an old friend this week, asking if we would be able to catch up in…
  • Two new formats, judged against each other

    2 May 2021
    The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) must have been dreaming that people would come to compare its controversial new…
  • A theory of life, and cricket, in a pandemic

    29 March 2021
    My wife, Anita, has a theory about life during the wretched pandemic, which has now been with us for roughly…
  • Root joins a very select company at Chennai

    10 February 2021
    Joe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century…
  • The bowling partnerships that win Test matches

    1 February 2021
    It is a truism that cricket is all about partnerships. The record books are full of statistics about batting partnerships.…
  • India's improbable triumph at the Gabba

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