Dave Tickner 04 Mar 2022

Shane Warne: The greatest ever spinner, and so, so much more

Shane Warne, who has died aged 52, transcended cricket in England - not even England players generally manage that.

Australia Features

Dave Tickner 28 Mar 2020

Because we can, here are 38 times Stuart Broad was just the best

The world's a shitshow, so what better way to cheer ourselves up?

England Features

Dave Tickner 20 Mar 2020

Coronavirus delays English cricket season until at least May 28

English season delayed by at least seven weeks.

County Cricket England

Dave Tickner 21 Feb 2020

That’s Numberwang! Morgan, USA, Agar, Jamieson

This week's daft numbers.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 20 Feb 2020

Ross Taylor’s about to create a club of one – but who else could join him?

A hundred caps in all three formats...

Australia Features

Dave Tickner 12 Feb 2020

Wood keen to learn from ‘unbelievable’ Steyn during T20 series

"He's got an unbelievable record which I'd love to have."

England News

Dave Tickner 11 Feb 2020

That’s Numberwang! Denly, Bavuma, De Kock, Naseem Shah, Nicholas Verity Knight, Days, Years

This week's Numberwang will make you feel old. Unless you're 16.

England Features

Dave Tickner 05 Feb 2020

Plunkett, Banton and the Wrong Trousers: how the start of England’s new ODI cycle fell between two stools

England went too far with Plunkett, not far enough with Banton.

England Features

Dave Tickner 04 Feb 2020

That’s Numberwang! Broad, Sixes, Kohli, Super Overs

Inevitable that Stuart Broad would hit back one day.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 30 Jan 2020

‘Super Overs aren’t really our friends’: New Zealand’s six months of shootout woe

Not so bloody Super, are they? Kane might think it, but he'd never say it.

England Features

Dave Tickner 24 Jan 2020

That’s Numberwang! A cool half-mill, a 70-innings wait ends, and the inevitable bit of Kohli

Numbers from 3 all the way up to 500,000!

England Features

Dave Tickner 23 Jan 2020

Bavuma recalled for crucial final Test against England

Bavuma in. Hamza out. Van der Dussen up to three.

England News

Dave Tickner 17 Jan 2020

That’s Numberwang! Pope, Warner, Finch, Wood, Tossing

Numbers, lovely numbers.

Features

Dave Tickner 16 Jan 2020

Day one in PE made the five-day Test case far more compellingly than day five at Newlands

Day one in PE really was a great advert for five-day Test cricket.

England Features

Dave Tickner 15 Jan 2020

If we’re going to (correctly) give Virat Kohli an award every year then at least give it for the year’s best bit of Virat Kohli-ing

Just bring in the Virat Kohli Award instead of this nonsense. He's worth it.

Features India

Dave Tickner 02 Jan 2020

Four-day Test cricket: the pros and cons

Four-day Tests: yes or no?

Features Test cricket

Dave Tickner 31 Dec 2019

That’s Numberwang! Oh Jimmy, Jimmy plus Williamson and WTC formalities

James Anderson cements a couple of his Test batting records.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 24 Dec 2019

That’s Numberwang! The Mainly Rohit Sharma Edition, featuring Abid Ali and Marnus

Numbers. Lots of numbers. Rohit Sharma numbers.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 18 Dec 2019

Cricket365’s Test Team of the Decade: No Root or Pujara or any Australian bowlers

We deliberately left your favourite player out because we're monsters.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 13 Dec 2019

That’s Numberwang! The stats round-up featuring Marnus, Kohli and some fella called Sachin

ACTIVATE MARNUS.

Features T20 cricket

Dave Tickner 05 Dec 2019

That’s Numberwang! All the best stats from the last week

Another week of cricket has taken place, and with that inevitably come numbers in various forms. Whether in the form of the millions of runs scored by David Warner, or in the millions of tweets about Poor Joe Denly. Here are our pick of the stats from a week that had some pretty exciting numbers […]

Afghanistan Australia

Dave Tickner 29 Nov 2019

England now operating on such elevated banter plane that latest mad selection sort of ends up vindicated

England's selection was utterly mad yet has been pretty much vindicated.

England Features

Dave Tickner 08 Nov 2019

STATS: The records that tumbled in England’s victory over New Zealand

All sorts of records broken in Napier today.

England Features

Dave Tickner 06 Nov 2019

Root Maths, Maximums and Eight Balls: The Cricket365 List of Banned Words, Phrases and Concepts

We've broken every single one of these rules.

Features News

Dave Tickner 29 Oct 2019

Triple threat: The 15 batsmen with international hundreds in all three formats

We love it when features can be recycled.

Afghanistan Australia

Dave Tickner 23 Oct 2019

Where does India’s absolute dominance leave the World Test Championship?

India look set to run away with the WTC. But what if they lose the final?

Features India

Dave Tickner 21 Oct 2019

Drafts are long and dull and s*** but The Hundred just about gets away with its big night

The Hundred Draft was not that bad actually.

England Features

Dave Tickner 08 Oct 2019

Triple threat: The 14 batsmen with international hundreds in all three formats

A look at the other members of the club Kevin O'Brien has joined.

Afghanistan Australia

Dave Tickner 01 Oct 2019

The Hundred is two different things: a shambolic catastrophe and a great cricket tournament

The Hundred really is going to be good, you know. On the field at least.

County Cricket Features

Dave Tickner 14 Sep 2019

The Official Cricket365 2019 Ashes Combined XI

Have we picked Steve Smith? You'll have to click to find out.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 13 Sep 2019

England plan to get Smith pays off at just 1143rd attempt

England get Steve Smith out for just 80. Great success.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 12 Sep 2019

Australia get most things wrong, England still obligingly collapse to 226/8

England are utterly infuriating, they really are.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 10 Sep 2019

The WTC scoring system has a flaw so bad and so easily fixed the ICC should act now

The WTC scoring system is stupid, but the fix is easy. Get it done.

Features News

Dave Tickner 07 Sep 2019

Broad meddles with fabric of space and time as Starc finds his mojo

Stuart Broad and Mitchell Starc star in Old Trafford morning session.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 06 Sep 2019

Burns lacks Smith’s genius or Stokes’ scripts, but is a quiet hero of this series

Rory Burns is an England Test opener who looks the part. Praise be.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 05 Sep 2019

Smith makes 211 in his least convincing innings of the series

Steve Smith got 211 with his least convincing batting of the series. A freak.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 04 Sep 2019

Smith, Marnus and Broad provide reassuring familiarity on a weird and windy day

We're really not at all sure what to make of that day's play/rain/wind.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 29 Aug 2019

Archer at eight? England could be about to pick their most exciting tail for years

Archer at eight followed by Broad, Leach and Anderson? Yes please.

England Features

Dave Tickner 28 Aug 2019

As the dust settles on Headingley’s nonsense, who on earth should England pick now?

Heaven help us, we've done a selection piece.

England Features

Dave Tickner 23 Aug 2019

Same old England, always collapsing – 67 all out joins the list of shame

England really are very, very bad at batting.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 22 Aug 2019

Archer reinvents himself to leave Australia reeling again

Jofra did Jofra things at Lord's, and Jimmy things at Leeds.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 21 Aug 2019

LISTEN: Cricket Badger Ashes Weekly Podcast Episode Four

In week four it’s James and Aakash with Oli chipping in briefly from beautiful Scarbardos where Yorkshire are taking on Notts. It’s time to look ahead to the 3rd Ashes Test at Headingley. James Buttler, the Cricket Badger, is joined by Cricket 365’s Oli Fisher and cricket journalist Aakash Sivasubramaniam to assess England’s chances of levelling the series at […]

Australia England

Dave Tickner 21 Aug 2019

WATCH: Fidel Edwards sets new celebrappeal bar

Celebrappeal + Nonchalance = Fidel Edwards.

County Cricket News

Dave Tickner 21 Aug 2019

The bluffer’s guide to writing a Jofra Archer hot take for Australian newspapers

How to write a Jofra Archer hot take. It's v simple.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 18 Aug 2019

Archer’s thrilling debut changes everything and nothing

Jofra Archer has changed the mood if not the scoreline.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 15 Aug 2019

The self-fulfilling myth of the Lord’s slope

The Lord's slope is a myth.

Features Test cricket

Dave Tickner 06 Aug 2019

Eight ways for England to deal with Steve Smith

There are loads of ways for England to stop Steve Smith.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 03 Aug 2019

Ashes day three talking points – Smith’s genius, Aussie impetus, England’s missed chance

Australia fight back at Edgbaston...

News

Dave Tickner 31 Jul 2019

The greatest Ashes Test: Seven reasons why Edgbaston 1997 > Edgbaston 2005

The greatest Ashes Test was at Edgbaston. But it wasn't that one.

Australia England

Dave Tickner 30 Jul 2019

Root at three the wrong move at the wrong time for the wrong reasons

Joe Root will bat at three, Joe Denly four. A big risk, for minimal reward.

Australia England