• On the Road

    Some Cricket Matches

    I had an email from an old friend this week, asking if we would be able to catch up in…

    Bill Pavilion End, Bill Ricquier's Cricket Views
  • Fever Pitch

    About the Game

    My wife, Anita, has a theory about life during the wretched pandemic, which has now been with us for roughly…

  • Three of a Kind

    Some Cricketers

    Joe Root did something very special at the first Test between India and England at Chennai. He scored a century…

  • Two’s Company

    Bowling

    It is a truism that cricket is all about partnerships. The record books are full of statistics about batting partnerships.…

  • Miracle on Vulture Street

    Some Cricket Matches

    Even the game’s administrators might at last begin to realise what every genuine cricket person has always known: that there…

  • Courage Under Fire: John Edrich

    Some Cricketers

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

  • House of Cards

    Some Cricket Matches

    There could hardly have been a more appropriate way of bringing the weird and often wonderful international cricket calendar year…

  • The Sly Old Fox: Clarrie Grimmett

    Some Cricketers

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

  • The Strong Man

    Hail and Farewell

    John Reid, the former New Zealand captain, who died last week at the age of 92, was one of the…

  • A Gong for The Dazzler

    Some Cricketers

    Whatever one’s views on Britain’s honours system, nobody is going to begrudge the award of an MBE to the former…

  • A Victorian Legend: Dean Jones, 1961-2020

    Some Cricketers

    The cricket world was shocked to learn of the sudden death of the former Australian batsman Dean Jones at the…