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Crickonomics
- The Anatomy of Modern Cricket
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Sports & Outdoors, Cricket
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Bloomsbury presents Crickonomics by Stefan Szymanski and Tim Wigmore, read by David Thorpe.
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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?
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- Ash.
- 14-07-22
Interesting Content, better as a book!
A bit of a tough one to review, the content is really interesting and I would recommend to any cricket fan however there are numerous occasions where you will be sat for anywhere between 5-10 minutes with nothing but line after line of a table being read out which is not only monotonous but also less impactful as unless you have a great memory it's very hard to compare the stats to those read out 5 minutes ago!
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- Anonymous User
- 20-06-22
This is data-driven insight so it’s very good. It’s also a state of the “nation”. Well worth the effort…
There is. I way ever that hearing someone read out a data table will be fun. The insights are good though. If you love the game it’ll tell you quite a bit about the idiots who run it…