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The most wickets by overseas players in the Indian Premier League

Jan 14, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

Excitement continues to mount with the IPL just around the corner. The auction has happened and the lay of the land for the tournament’s 2025 iteration is starting to take shape. As we head towards the latest incarnation of the event, which runs from 21 March to 25 May, let’s look at the best bowlers over the years.
Most expensive match figures by bowlers in history of the IPL

Jan 14, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

It’s no secret that T20 cricket is not a particularly bowler friendly environment. The shortest format of the game is undoubtedly biased in favour of the batsmen. Every so often there is a spell or a game that simply takes things to the next level, a moment where a bowler walks into a perfect storm and is carted to all parts of the ground. With the return of the IPL on the horizon, let’s take a moment to look at the five most expensive spells of bowling in IPL history.
The most runs by overseas players in the history of the IPL

Jan 13, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

With the 2025 IPL on the horizon, set to run from 21 March to 25 May, it’s worth taking a moment to look at the tournaments leading run scorers. Quite naturally, the leading scorers are all from India, with Virat Kohli topping the list of most runs scored overall, with a whopping 8004 from 244 innings. But in a world where the seven of the top ten run scorers in the tournament’s competition are Indian, who are the leading run scorers from abroad?
The 7 fastest bowlers in the 2025 Champions Trophy

Jan 13, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

The Champion’s Trophy is a matter of weeks away as the best players in the world prepare to gather in Pakistan and the UAE to duke it out for the second major piece of ICC ODI silverware. While the West Indies and Sri Lanka failed to qualify for the eight-team tournament all the other major team will be present. Pool A is set to feature Bangladesh, India, New Zealand and Pakistan, while Pool B is comprised of Afghanistan, Australia, England and South Africa.
The 5 best Test match bowling figures by a captain

Jan 12, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

Australia’s Pat Cummins is something of a rarity in modern Test cricket – a bowler captaining a team. While there’s no reason that a bowler shouldn’t lead a team, the role, for some reason seems to fall more often than not to batsmen. Over the years there have been many great captains who have been bowlers – indeed, the recently completed fifth Test between Australia and India at the SCG saw the world’s two top ranked Test bowlers, Jasprit Bumrah and Cummins skippering their sides.
The 5 leading wicket-takers in Pakistan v West Indies Tests

Jan 12, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

With the West Indies in Pakistan for their first series against Pakistan in Pakistan since 2006 it’s worth looking back in time to see which bowlers have taken the most wickets in encounters between these sides. Perhaps more than any other teams in the world these are two sides that are famed for their fast-bowling histories.
Find out who has hit the biggest six recorded in cricket

Jan 12, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

Glenn Maxwell hit a 122-metre six during the Big Bash League in Australia in 2025. Professional cricket matches don’t always have the distances of sixes recorded. But more and more, this is being measured. Here, we recall the biggest sixes recorded in the history of professional cricket around the world. 10. Chris Gayle – 116 metresWe’re probably as surprised as you that Gayle doesn’t feature higher on this list.
Find out who has hit the biggest six recorded in cricket

Jan 12, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

Glenn Maxwell hit a 122-metre six during the Big Bash League in Australia in 2025. Professional cricket matches don’t always have the distances of sixes recorded. But more and more, this is being measured. Here, we recall the biggest sixes recorded in the history of professional cricket around the world. 11. Chris Gayle10. Shahid Afridi9. MS Dhoni8. Yuvraj Singh7. Mark WaughAlso read: Best bowling figures in an SA20 match=4. Corey Anderson=4. Liam Livingstone=4. Glenn Maxwell3. Martin Guptill2. Brett Lee1.
Fastest to 150 wickets in ODIs

Jan 11, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

Matt Henry has reached 150 wickets in ODI cricket. The New Zealand fast bowler reached the feat relatively quickly. But is he among the quickest? Here, we look at the bowlers who reached 150 wickets in ODI cricket the fastest. 9. Kuldeep Yadav – 150 wickets in 88 ODIs8. Matt Henry – 150 wickets in 85 ODIs7. Ajantha Mendis – 150 wickets in 84 ODIs6. Brett Lee – 150 wickets in 82 ODIs5. Trent Boult – 150 wickets in 81 ODIs4. Mohammed Shami – 150 wickets in 80 ODIs3. Rashid Khan – 150 wickets in 80 ODIs2.
Pakistan v West Indies

Jan 10, 2025 | cricket365.com | Jonhenry Wilson

As the West Indies began their tour of Pakistan on Friday with a warm-up game against a Pakistan Shaheens side, the anticipation continues to build as the two sides prepare for their first Test series in Pakistan since November 2006. They have of course played each other in the Caribbean since then, and there has also been a series in the UAE, but the 2025 series is the first time these two traditional powerhouses of Test cricket will face each other in Pakistan.