TY - BOOK AU - Szymanski, Stefan AU - Tim Wigmore TI - Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket SN - 9781472992741 U1 - 796.358 PY - 2022/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Sport KW - Cricket N1 - First published in Great Britain in 2022; Bib and Ref N2 - 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 ER -