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

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But The North, Wales, The South and Trent make up four of the teams, not cities, and of the three cities one already had a T20 team when Warwickshire became Birmingham. and together they have turned their attention to cricket: the result is an enlightening, surprising and enjoyable read. My main takeaway from the book, much like from Soccernomics, is that inevitably everything boils down to money.

Crickonomics examines a wide variety of assumptions and unanswered questions about the sport to see what light can be shed and what myths can be shattered. This was an interesting read and flowed nicely, but didn't have the level of novel insight I was expecting. There’s not a lot that makes a chap feel his advancing years more than recognising that he maintains an enduring and strangely passionate attachment to cricket. As an example, the first section deals with the influence of class in English cricket and why there tend to be more Southern, privately educated batters, but a predominance of Northern, state educated bowlers. In general, the chapters based in other countries intrigued me more as I knew less about them, while the stories were told well.it is a book which should be of interest not only to cricket enthusiasts, but anyone with an interest in sport.

It had its value and it covered a range of subjects, but at times these felt quite distinct from each other. Fascinating The Observer Illuminating The Times 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.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. An engaging tour of the modern game from an award-winning journalist and the economist who co-authored the bestselling Soccernomics. Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. 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.