Author: Bill Ricquier

  • 10 May 2020
    Wisden arrived this week. Of course one always has to wait a little while for it in Singapore, but wherever…
  • 10 May 2020
    This is a chapter from The Indian Masters, published originally in 2015 The 2004 edition of Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack has…
  • 2 May 2020
    My most recent post, on the little masters Tendulkar and Gavaskar, and the not so little Kohli, generated such a…
  • 26 April 2020
    I write this on Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th birthday. He made his Test debut, against Pakistan in Karachi, a month before the…
  • 19 April 2020
    I remember listening to an interview with a batsman – a right-handed batsman, I just can’t remember who it was…
  • 13 April 2020
    Whatever your interpretation of T S Elliot's famous line, April is a month I normally look forward to. The 2020…
  • 5 April 2020
    I saw an intriguing picture the other day while leafing through a book called Cricket – The Golden Age by Duncan Steer.…
  • 28 March 2020
    Records are made to be broken. That is certainly true of sport. In some ways it is almost the point…
  • 28 March 2020
    Who was the greater bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne?  Such questions are almost impossible to answer. This is obviously…
  • Galle International Cricket Ground

    15 March 2020
    On Friday 14 March 2020 COVID-19 made its first impact on international cricket, and we had our first, decidedly untantalising…