Dave Tickner 25 Jan 2019

West Indies v England day two: All you need to know

Catch up on a quiet day two in Barbados...

England Features

Dave Tickner 25 Jan 2019

England collapse again as familiar doubts resurface

It's happened again. England 77 all out this time.

England Features

Dave Tickner 24 Jan 2019

West Indies v England day one: All you need to know

Hetmyer batted in a floppy hat. Everything else is a footnote.

England Features

Dave Tickner 24 Jan 2019

England have too many good bowlers, but Anderson remains the one

Standard brilliance from Jimmy, hatless brilliance from Shimron.

England Features

Dave Tickner 22 Jan 2019

Wisden name 2019 cover stars; we predict this year’s five

We've updated this in light of the fact we're idiots.

England Features

Dave Tickner 17 Jan 2019

Cricket365’s Cricketers We Love, No. 1: Adam Parore

A brand new series of Cricketers We Like. For No. 1 it's all about the sweatbands...

Features New Zealand

Dave Tickner 17 Jan 2019

Welcome to the new Cricket365: Love the game as much as we do

Welcome to the all (well, mainly) new Cricket365 site.

News Top Story

Dave Tickner 17 Jan 2019

Ranking Stuart Broad’s hat-trick of hat-tricks

A hat-trick with the 11th wicket of the innings? Classic Broad.

England Features

Dave Tickner 17 Jan 2019

REVEALED: England’s record in the West Indies is very bad indeed

England have won precisely one Test series in the Caribbean since 1968.

England Features

Dave Tickner 17 Jan 2019

Monty Panesar went on Celebrity Mastermind. What happened next will shock you

The answer to 13 still has us utterly baffled.

England Features

Dave Tickner 22 Aug 2018

The gloves are off: Bairstow blow can help England

England, as you may have noticed, are not very good at batting in Test cricket. Remarkably, they’ve managed to get away with it to the extent they somehow still lead this series 2-1. Given the ongoing batting struggles, the broken finger suffered by Jonny Bairstow could be reasonably termed a crisis. But the Chinese have […]

England India

Dave Tickner 16 Aug 2018

So how do England get Ben Stokes back in?

While all the Serious Journalists write their Very Important Pieces about what is to be done with Ben Stokes – and, to a lesser extent Alex Hales – we’re far more interested in the more immediate and fun question of how he fits back into the England team for the third Test. Every single option […]

England News

Dave Tickner 29 May 2018

England’s batting has got really, really bad and there are no obvious solutions

England are bad and the takes are hot. The defeat to Pakistan at Lord’s, completed with indecent yet entirely fitting haste on the fourth morning of a match the tourists had dominated from the start, felt unusually significant. Lord knows England have lost matches before. Lord knows they’ve collapsed before. But there was something undeniably […]

Countries England

Dave Tickner 18 May 2018

Guha: ECB must retain women’s T20 tournament when Hundred launches

Former England bowler Isa Guha says the ECB must ensure there remains top-level Twenty20 cricket for women when the controversial 100-ball tournament launches in 2020. The Hundred will run as both a men’s and women’s competition but, while the men’s T20 Blast will continue, the successful Kia Women’s Super League – and its teams – […]

Countries County Cricket

Dave Tickner 10 May 2018

Cricket is great; we won’t save the game by telling everyone it isn’t

The latest ECB marketing wheeze for The Hundred has Dave Tickner banging his head on the desk in frustration. We must stop apologising for our great sport and start showing some faith in the game. “Root and Stokes will be allocated to a team for marketing purposes, but they won’t be playing. The ECB made […]

England Features

Dave Tickner 19 Apr 2018

A hundred reasons: England cricket’s 2020 farce

“This is 100-ball cricket, a simple approach to reach a new generation. Based on 15 traditional six-ball overs, the other ten balls will add a fresh tactical dimension.” The most astonishing passage from an astonishing press release as the ECB proudly announce their latest wheeze to Save Cricket. Part Marks & Spencer advert, part gibberish, […]

England Features

Dave Tickner 03 Apr 2018

Unanswered questions after England’s winter of discontent

Having spent five months concealing it behind their other myriad flaws, England ended a bleak Test winter with a timely reminder of their inability to run through a tail. In both innings at the Hagley Oval New Zealand were able to wriggle off the hook and ultimately escape with a deserved draw and series win, […]

Countries England

Dave Tickner 29 Mar 2018

Australia has lost its collective mind

On Sunday March 25 2018, Australians all over the country woke to some shocking news. Australia had cheated at cricket. While the rest of the world simply shrugged and thought “Well of course they have,” before chortling at the Baldrick-like cunning of the whole sorry enterprise, Australians were inexplicably but genuinely surprised. As son looked […]

Australia Countries

Dave Tickner 26 Mar 2018

Wagner, Stokes treat us to ‘Proper Test Cricket’

There are many things that make cricket the greatest of all sports, and not all of those things involve hastily shoving homemade sandpaper down your underpants. One of the non-homemade-sandpaper-down-your-underpants reasons is its unique dynamic. A series of individual contests within a team framework. The evening battle between Ben Stokes and Neil Wagner lit up […]

England Features