Say No To Pyro!
Mitchell Starc wins the 2021-22 Midwinter-Midwinter
Australia’s Mitchell Starc is the winner of the Midwinter-Midwinter for 2021-22. Starc accumulated the most points during the 2021-22 Ashes for the Best-on-Ground awarded on each day of each of the five Tests as announced on the @rickeyrecricket Twitter account.
83, a film review
Warning: if you don’t want to know who won the 1983 Cricket World Cup before seeing “83” then stop reading here. Behind-the-scenes sports documentary series weren’t a thing in 1983, so in 2021 director Kabir Khan attempts to fill the void with “83” – the fictionalised account of the Indian cricket team’s unexpected triumph in […]
Book Review: The Greatest Year: The 1971 Tours of the West Indies and England
As 2020 wends its tortuous path, it sets a bar so low that we can only hope and imagine that 2021 will be a great year by comparison. But 2021 will also be the fiftieth anniversary of what author Anindya Dutta has described in the title of his new book as “The Greatest Year”. 1971 […]
Book Review: Wizards: The story of Indian spin bowling
The sub-title of “Wizards”, the fourth book of cricket history from Anindya Dutta, is “The story of Indian spin bowling”, but it could so easily be described as “the history of Indian cricket through spin”.
The covers are off! The Net Sessions Episode 8
The podcast continues after fourteen years. Episode 8 (series 2, episode 1) of The Net Sessions is out.
Womens Test team of the 2010s
While many end-of-the-decade cricket reviews have named multi-genre womens teams of the 2010s, I have decided to drill down and select eleven women based upon the best Test performances of the decade. Why? To recognise an endangered, yet highly valued part of our sport. Highly valued that is, by those who play and follow Test […]
Tweets by @rickeyrecricket for 28 Dec 19
Tweets by @rickeyrecricket for 28 Dec 19
What’s in a decade?
Before I plunge into a series of annual reviews, let me address that most burning of questions: Have we reached the end of the decade? Some people will insist that we haven’t. My answer: We have reached the end of a decade. A decade is any consecutive period of time lasting ten years. A decade […]
Interview for The Switch Hit podcast
I had a chat with Adithya Vadapalli for an hour on December 19 for The Switch Hit Podcast about a broad range of issues relating to Australian cricket over the years.