SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - CRICKET
BOOK OF THE YEAR.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
2023.
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 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.
