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 Indias rise? Why have women often been the games 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 didnt; English crickets 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 Armys 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.
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?
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.
