He played in four Test matches, with the last two, against South Africa in 2003, coming ten years after the first two in the 1993 Ashes series.
He was also an increasingly useful tail-end batsman, verging on all-rounder status, with three first-class centuries to his name and an average of 24.87.
His brother Darren Bicknell was a sound county batsman formerly with Surrey and finishing his career with Nottinghamshire.
Bicknell lives in Churt, Farnham, He is married to Sarah, and has four children: Ellie, Charlotte, Mia-May and Millie-Coco.
Having initially intended to cease playing at the end of the 2006 season, he was struck by a series of niggling injuries which forced him to announce an earlier retirement from first-class cricket on 9 August 2006,[5] moving on to take up a post at Charterhouse School as the Master in Charge of Cricket.