• Watching Cricket in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka

    Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia.…

    Watching cricket sri lanka
  • Things Have Changed

    About the Game

    Image: "The famous duck: Bradman bowled by Bowes at the MCG, in front of a world record crowd assembled to…

    Things have Changed wikipedia
  • Double Trouble

    Batting

    When Ben Stokes made 258 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2016 he became the second Englishman in…

    England cricket team walks out line abreast
  • Carry On Batting

    Batting

    The Boxing Day Test between South Africa and England at Durban saw the fiftieth instance in Test cricket of a…

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  • The Strange Power of the Follow-On

    Some Cricket Matches

    Nobody could have been surprised by the result of the First Test between Australia and the West Indies at Hobart.…

    Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views
  • Crikey O’Reilly!!

    Batting

    Crikey O'Reilly !! Crikey O'Reilly ? Is Crikey O'Reilly the latest Irish cricketer to make his debut for England in…

    Crikey Oreilley
  • Curtain Call

    Hail and Farewell

    For much of the game there was a slightly underwhelming feel about the Royal London One -Day Cup Final between…

    Geraint Jones celebrates with Gloucester.
  • Brian Close – Bloody but Unbowed

    Some Cricketers

    Brian Close, who died on 14 September at the age of 84, was one of the most remarkable of English…

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  • Farewell My Lovely

    The Ashes

    So there it is. Eighteen days of hectic, sometimes bizarre cricket and the 2015 Investec Ashes is all over. There…

    Farewell my lovely wikipedia
  • 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…

    Giant departs wiki
  • 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…

    Glove on and off