LONGLISTED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023.
Fascinating The Observer
Illuminating The Times
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.
Recenzijas
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 * The Mail on Sunday * Provides answers to a range of fascinating questions about the sport -- The Daily Telegraph An insightful, Hawk-Eye-like analysis of the numbers behind cricket * The Financial Times * An illuminating study * The Times * A fact-packed and thought-provoking tour through crickets highways and byways * Times Literary Supplement * A startingly comprehensive insight into the past, present and possible future of this most English of sports. * City A.M * Part history, part data analysis, part reflection on the sports future, Crickonomics is exactly what the title suggests - a diagnosis of the state of professional cricket through the lens of economics. * All Sports Books * Taps into meaningful and eternal themes * Wisden Cricket Monthly * Pacy and extraordinarily broad * The Cricketer * The 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. * Braham Dabscheck, The Newtown Review of Books * Wigmore is one of sporting journalisms most original thinkers. * The Cricketer * brilliant research and arguments, backed by conviction one would associate with true experts of the gamea must read. * Sportstar *
Papildus informācija
An engaging tour of the modern game from an award-winning journalist and the economist who co-authored the bestselling Soccernomics.
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PART ONE CENTRES OF POWER: NEW AND OLD |
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1 Batters and bowlers, nature and nurture |
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2 The strange conservatism of Kerry Packer, and why Covid-19 will accelerate the rise of club cricket |
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3 An urban sport in a rural country: the challenge of Indian cricket |
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4 An Ashes Education -- why cricket's oldest rivalry is the battle of private schools |
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5 The rise of New Zealand: by luck or design? |
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6 Women's cricket -- a history of innovation |
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75 | (13) |
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7 How Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test batting-but T20 didn't |
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88 | (16) |
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8 League cricket -- the game's great missed opportunity |
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9 A fair result in foul weather |
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PART THREE CRICKET'S PROBLEMS |
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127 | (58) |
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10 Cricket's concussion crisis |
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129 | (12) |
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141 | (17) |
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12 What will the future of women's cricket look like? And the case for reparations |
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158 | (11) |
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13 Why doesn't South Africa produce more Black batters? |
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PART FOUR PLAYER PERFORMANCE |
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14 The value of batting v bowling |
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187 | (11) |
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15 Did the cold cost India a Test series victory in England? |
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198 | (10) |
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208 | (11) |
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219 | (26) |
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221 | (10) |
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18 How the Barmy Army are keeping Test cricket alive -- from their sofas |
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231 | (14) |
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19 How networks explain the rise of Asia |
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247 | (14) |
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20 How Afghanistan is bringing cricket to Germany |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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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.
