دانلود کتاب کریکونومیک – آناتومی کریکت مدرن

The greatest myth about cricket is that the sport is conservative, impervious to change. The story of cricket has been one of constant evolution – even though some of the loudest voices have asserted that each of these changes would spell its demise.

We think about the history of the game as four eras of evolution. First came the early development of the sport in the 18th century, when it acquired rules and records and established itself – if only temporarily – as England’s pre-eminent team sport. Second was the middle-class respectability that cricket won in the Victorian era, when it spread to the British colonies. Third came the development of the professional game in the early 20th century, when international games – Test matches – gained primacy in the sport. Fourth was the embrace of television, and the growth of limited-overs cricket, from the 1970s onwards.

We conceive of Crickonomics as the story of cricket’s fifth era: the sport in the new millennium. It is a tale of the rise of India, the growth of women’s cricket, and the mysteries of the Duckworth-Lewis Method. It is the story of the full professionalisation of the sport, the impact of Twenty20, and the game spreading to new frontiers. It is about traditional divides in cricket – between private and state schools, in England and Australia alike, in how batters and bowlers are valued, and of biased selectors. It is the tale of what the fans actually want. And it is about the widening gaps between the sport’s wealthiest and poorest countries, models for bridging these gaps, and the future of cricket.