• Blog
  • Archive
Image
  • About
  • Contact
Subscribe!
Image
Subscribe!
Image
Subscribe!
View Post

Courage Under Fire: John Edrich

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier02/01/218 Comments

Cricket people love debating whether a particular player is great or simply very good. “Great” tends to be over-used but people engaged in this sort … Read More

View Post

The Sly Old Fox: Clarrie Grimmett

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier03/11/20

I made (at least) two misstatements in my piece on John Reid. The first was that New Zealand’s Tests against England in 1949 were played … Read More

View Post

A Gong for The Dazzler

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier12/10/20

Whatever one’s views on Britain’s honours system, nobody is going to begrudge the award of an MBE to the former Yorkshire and England cricketer Darren … Read More

View Post

A Victorian Legend: Dean Jones, 1961-2020

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier28/09/20

The cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the age of 59. He suffered … Read More

View Post

One-County Man

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier17/09/20

The former England batsman Ian Bell has announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the end of this slightly unreal 2020 season; (not that we … Read More

View Post

When the Numbers Don’t Matter

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier30/07/20

Is Sam Curran in your best England Test eleven? Well all right, twelve? Er, thirteen? Selection is a strange business but few cricketers demonstrate its … Read More

View Post

Many a Slip

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier06/06/20

This is not a history of close fielding; that will have to come later. This is more in the nature of an apology. I always … Read More

View Post

The Smack of Firm Government

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier01/06/20

A number of friends – some not even cricketing friends really – alerted me to the passing, a couple of weeks ago, of the former … Read More

View Post

And Then There Were Twelve

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier02/05/20

My most recent post, on the little masters Tendulkar and Gavaskar, and the not so little Kohli, generated such a wave of interest – there … Read More

View Post

Little and Large

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier26/04/20

I write this on Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th birthday. He made his Test debut, against Pakistan in Karachi, a month before the fall of the Berlin Wall. … Read More

View Post

Who is the Fairest of Them All?

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier19/04/20

I remember listening to an interview with a batsman – a right-handed batsman, I just can’t remember who it was – who was struck by … Read More

View Post

Clash of the Titans

In Some Cricketers.. by Bill Ricquier28/03/20

Who was the greater bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne?  Such questions are almost impossible to answer. This is obviously the case with cricketers from … Read More

  • Page 1 of 4
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • ...
  • 4
  • →

Search the site

Categories

  • About the Game (16)
  • Batting (11)
  • Books and Movies (3)
  • Bowling (6)
  • Cricket World Cup (21)
  • England (7)
  • Hail and Farewell (8)
  • Some Cricket Matches.. (27)
  • Some Cricketers.. (38)
  • Sri Lanka (20)
  • The Ashes (7)
  • Uncategorized (1)

About

Bill Ricquier Cricket Views“From The Pavilion End” focuses on current cricketing events, using current events as a peg to examine cricketers and matches of the past. Bill Ricquier has been writing about cricket since his first visit to Hampshire’s County Ground as a ten year old. Read more..

Links

 

Useful Information:

  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Newsletter Archive
Image

Copyright © www.billpavilionend.com

  • Home
  • About
  • Archive
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
  • Archive
  • Contact
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By continuing to use this website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy.Ok