Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 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…
  • Great, or merely very good? A batsman weighed

    2 January 2021
    Cricket people love debating whether a particular player is great or simply very good. “Great” tends to be over-used but…
  • A fitting, fragile end to a strange year

    27 December 2020
    There could hardly have been a more appropriate way of bringing the weird and often wonderful international cricket calendar year…