Crickonomics

The Anatomy of Modern Cricket: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A CRICKETER BOOK OF THE YEAR.'Superb' Matthew Syed, The Times'Fascinating' The Observer'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 TimesAn 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-25
Mått:128 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt:220 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472992734

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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.

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IntroductionPART ONE - CENTRES OF POWER: NEW AND OLD1. Batters and bowlers, nature and nurture2. The strange conservatism of Kerry Packer, and why Covid-19 will accelerate the rise of club cricket3. An urban sport in a rural country: the challenge of Indian cricket4. An Ashes Education - why cricket's oldest rivalry is the battle of private schools5. The rise of New Zealand: by luck or designPART TWO - PIONEERS6. Women's cricket - a history of innovation7. How Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test8. League cricket - the game's great missed opportunity9. A fair result in foul weatherPART THREE - CRICKET'S PROBLEMS10. Cricket's concussion crisis11. Stereotypes12. What will the future of women's cricket look like? And the case for reparation13. Why doesn't South Africa produce more Black batters?

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