Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket [Paperback] Szymanski Stefan and Wigmore Tim

Cricket fans love statistics - this fascinating read takes the data and spins an engaging story - analysing the facts to shape the picture of cricket present and future.Promises to do for cricket what Soccernomics and Moneyball did for football and baseball.An enjoyable romp through the quandaries of modern cricket, bringing a fresh perspective and new angle to some common clubhouse discussions.Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan. His books include Soccernomics, Money and Football, National Pastime, Playbooks and Checkbooks and Winners and Losers. Tim Wigmore is the author of Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. He is a sportswriter for The Daily Telegraph, and has also written regularly for The New York Times, The Economist, the New Statesman and ESPNCricinfo.SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES BEST SPORT BOOKS OF 2022. A CRICKETER BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Superb' Matthew Syed, The Times 'Fascinating' The Observer 'Crickonomics is packed with sufficient statistical analysis to have the most ardent cricket geek purring with pleasure' Mail on Sunday 'An insightful, Hawk-Eye-like analysis of the numbers behind cricket' Financial Times An engaging tour of the modern game from an award-winning journalist and the economist who co-authored the bestselling Soccernomics. Why does England rely on private schools for their batters - but not their bowlers? How did demographics shape India's rise? Why have women often been the game's great innovators? Why does South Africa struggle to produce Black Test batters? And how does the weather impact who wins? Crickonomics explores all of this and much more - including how Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test batting but T20 didn't; English cricket's great missed opportunity to have a league structure like football; why batters are paid more than bowlers; how Afghanistan is transforming German cricket; what the rest of the world can learn from New Zealand and even the Barmy Army's importance to Test cricket. This incisive book will entertain and surprise all cricket lovers. It might even change how you watch the game.Crickonomics answers those questions you have about the sport, and many more that you haven't: you'll be delighted to know all the answers. Just as the bestselling Soccernomics did for football, this book will take a rational look at the game of cricket, past and present, and combine the expertise of an award winning cricket journalist with a leading sports economist, to provide startling insight and clear-headed analysis.Introduction PART ONE - CENTRES OF POWER: NEW AND OLD 1. Batters and bowlers, nature and nurture 2. The strange conservatism of Kerry Packer, and why Covid-19 will accelerate the rise of club cricket 3. An urban sport in a rural country: the challenge of Indian cricket 4. An Ashes Education - why cricket's oldest rivalry is the battle of private schools 5. The rise of New Zealand: by luck or design PART TWO - PIONEERS 6. Women's cricket - a history of innovation 7. How Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test 8. League cricket - the game's great missed opportunity 9. A fair result in foul weather PART THREE - CRICKET'S PROBLEMS 10. Cricket's concussion crisis 11. Stereotypes 12. What will the future of women's cricket look like? And the case for reparation 13. Why doesn't South Africa produce more Black batters?SuperbFascinatingCrickonomics is packed with sufficient statistical analysis to have the most ardent cricket geek purring with pleasureAn illuminating studyAn insightful, Hawk-Eye-like analysis of the numbers behind cricketA fact-packed and thought-provoking tour through cricket's highways and bywaysA startingly comprehensive insight into the past, present and possible future of this most English of sports.Part history, part data analysis, part reflection on the sport's future, Crickonomics is exactly what the title suggests - a diagnosis of the state of professional cricket through the lens of economics.Taps into meaningful and eternal themesPacy and extraordinarily broadThe most engaging and insightful book on the progress of cricket that I have ever read. it is a book which should be of interest not only to cricket enthusiasts, but anyone with an interest in sport.Wigmore is one of sporting journalism's most original thinkers.brilliant research and arguments, backed by conviction one would associate with true experts of the game.a must read.