Stefan Szymanski, Tim Wigmore

Crickonomics

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

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Produktbeschreibung

An engaging tour of the modern game from an award-winning journalist and the economist who co-authored the bestselling Soccernomics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9781472992734
• ISBN-10: 1472992733
• Artikelnr.: 65760640

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?