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An engaging tour of the modern game from an award-winning journalist and the economist who co-authored the bestselling Soccernomics. An excellent book that covers many aspects of cricket - history, statistics, analysis, country stories and more. The strange conservatism of Kerry Packer, and why Covid-19 will accelerate the rise of club cricket 3. More money helps players develop as youngsters, decisions on the future of the game will be shaped by what draws eyeballs and wallets, and a small amount of money could (but probably won’t) globalize the game (for both men and women) if targeted correctly. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting.
It was good, but lacking something, sometimes explicitly where the authors posed a question rather than answering it.This didn't have the granular detail of Hitting Against The Spin of where to pitch the ball, and took a broader view of the sport in general. Provides a fascinating explanation about how cricket works in the current age, why it got to the way it is, and how the sport might progress over the next 20 years, both with respect to the IPL and the expansion of the game to new regions of the globe. 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 data analysis economics. It looks at the growth of the women' game and interestingly how India in particular is supporting the development of the junior cricket nations in Asia, while in comparatively, little has been done to support growth in among European nations.
And a final chapter on the rise of cricket in Germany driven by Afghan refugees is a real eye-opener. Stefan Szymanski, an economics professor, may be best known to many for co-writing the excellent Soccernomics (or Why England Lose).
I think that it is not quite as well developed in some chapter, for example the how well do teams play above or below their average temperatures. To be fair, this isn’t really a book to be read straight through; taking a section at a time with breaks would probably improve the experience, and it will be of huge interest and help to those analysing the game and proposing to make changes. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. My main takeaway from the book, much like from Soccernomics, is that inevitably everything boils down to money. 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.
The book covers several topics that I was previously unaware of and contradicts several popular myths about the game. They bring in some fantastic statistics but it is also a history lesson as well as a look to how they think the future could unfold.It's particularly good explaining the rise of cricket in Asia in the 21st century and the strategic decisions that have propelled that - compared to the moribund development in Europe, Africa and the Americas in the same period. For example, it was suggested that the Hundred competition might increase participation in English cities as franchises were based on large city settlements rather than historic counties.
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