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Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023 de Stefan Szymanski

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

Autor Stefan Szymanski, Tim Wigmore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mai 2023
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 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472992734
ISBN-10: 1472992733
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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?

Recenzii

Superb
Fascinating
Crickonomics is packed with sufficient statistical analysis to have the most ardent cricket geek purring with pleasure
Provides answers to a range of fascinating questions about the sport
An insightful, Hawk-Eye-like analysis of the numbers behind cricket
An illuminating study
A fact-packed and thought-provoking tour through cricket's highways and byways
A 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 themes
Pacy and extraordinarily broad
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.
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.