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  • Joe Root: England’s Greatest Batter?

    Some Cricketers

    2024 has turned out to be yet another year of high achievement for England’s favourite batter, Joe Root. He is…

    Bill Ricquier•13 October 2024•5 comments

  • James Anderson: Simply One of the Best

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    This article was originally published in Scoreline magazine. A truly remarkable Test career ended on 12 July, the third and…

    Bill Ricquier•9 August 2024•6 comments

  • Kuldeep Yadav: “A Genuine Leg-Spinner”

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    The Men’s Cricket World Cup has been great fun to watch. I say this despite having made some public predictions…

    Bill Ricquier•6 November 2023•2 comments

  • Bishan Singh Bedi

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    Of the Indians who have played county cricket since the easing of the qualification rules in 1968, only Farokh Engineer…

    Bill Ricquier•24 October 2023•1 comment

  • Ranjan Madugalle – a True Cricket Person

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    Ranjan Madugalle has been actively involved in international cricket for over forty years. That is a remarkable achievement. And there…

    Bill Ricquier•11 June 2023•2 comments

  • Sanath Jayasuriya – a Man Ahead of his Time

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    Sri Lanka has produced many great cricketers since its emergence as a leading cricketing nation in the mid-1990s. Sanath Jayasuriya…

    Bill Ricquier•7 April 2023•0 comments

  • Aravinda De Silva: The Pocket Maestro

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    India’s Sachin Tendulkar was always known as The Little Master. At 5’5½” he was certainly shorter than average. His youth…

    Bill Ricquier•12 December 2022•1 comment

  • Arjuna Ranatunga: The Napoleon of Cricket

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    For long periods of time since its admission to the Test playing ranks in 1981, Sri Lanka has been regarded…

    Bill Ricquier•24 September 2022•2 comments

  • Joe Root Reaches for the Stars

    Some Cricketers

    They were the Fab Four – Steve Smith, Joe Root, Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson. Incontrovertibly the outstanding batters of…

    Bill Ricquier•20 August 2022•1 comment

  • The Greatest of Our Time

    Some Cricketers

    In a world where all news is bad it still came as a terrible almost bruising shock. For cricket, it…

    Bill Ricquier•6 March 2022•7 comments

  • Out of Africa

    Some Cricketers

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

    Bill Ricquier•6 June 2021•1 comment