• Margin Call

    Some Cricket Matches

    Can a cricket team" bounce back" from a defeat by a margin of 405 runs? This is the task facing…

    Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views
  • A Giant Departs

    Hail and Farewell

      CC BY-SA 4.0 : Image: Kumar Sangakkara batting in his final ODI in Sri Lanka.JPG   Where does Kumar…

  • Kept in Reserve

    Some Cricketers

    Image: By Aravind Sivaraj (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons New Zealand had an interesting selection quandary…

  • All Square

    Some Cricket Matches

    England v New Zealand in a Test match at Lord's, May 2004. Image by Peter Meade  licensed under  CC BY 2.0 As…

  • A Test of Character

    Some Cricket Matches

    If there is a better Test match this Ashes summer than the first Test between England and New Zealand at…

    Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views
  • England Their England (And Wales)

    England

    Could things get any worse? Could the level of performance sink even lower? Well , it seems the answer is…

  • Bigger Than The Game…?

    About the Game

    Image: The South Australian skies turned a magical red on the day that India and Pakistan opened their account at…

    Adelaide Oval - The sky is red, and the heart bleeds blue by Rajiv Bhuttan
  • Raina Rains On Taylor’s Final Parade

    Cricket World Cup

    The target for India was 288. The score, as Sikander Raza prepared to bowl the last ball of the 35th…

  • A Day For Heroes

    Cricket World Cup

    "MITCHELL STARC" by NAPARAZZI  under CC BY-SA 2.0 It's been an entertaining World Cup but if it had lacked anything…

  • Be Prepared

    Batting

    Batting is a very technical thing, far more technically demanding than most sporting endeavors. It is physically demanding and the…

  • The Accidental Hero

    Some Cricketers

    Misbah ul Haq is surely one of the most remarkable cricketers of the current era. I was going to say…

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