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. Tim Wigmore is the author of Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. He is a sportswriter for The Daily Telegraph, and has also written regularly for The New York Times, The Economist, the New Statesman and ESPNCricinfo.

• IntroductionPART ONE - CENTRES OF POWER: NEW AND OLD1. Batters and bowlers, nature and nurture2. The strange conservatism of Kerry Packer, and why Covid-19 will accelerate the rise of club cricket3. An urban sport in a rural country: the challenge of Indian cricket4. An Ashes Education - why cricket's oldest rivalry is the battle of private schools5. The rise of New Zealand: by luck or designPART TWO - PIONEERS6. Women's cricket - a history of innovation7. How Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test8. League cricket - the game's great missed opportunity9. A fair result in foul weatherPART THREE - CRICKET'S PROBLEMS10. Cricket's concussion crisis11. Stereotypes12. What will the future of women's cricket look like? And the case for reparation13. Why doesn't South Africa produce more Black batters?

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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. Tim Wigmore is the author of Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. He is a sportswriter for The Daily Telegraph, and has also written regularly for The New York Times, The Economist, the New Statesman and ESPNCricinfo.

• IntroductionPART ONE - CENTRES OF POWER: NEW AND OLD1. Batters and bowlers, nature and nurture2. The strange conservatism of Kerry Packer, and why Covid-19 will accelerate the rise of club cricket3. An urban sport in a rural country: the challenge of Indian cricket4. An Ashes Education - why cricket's oldest rivalry is the battle of private schools5. The rise of New Zealand: by luck or designPART TWO - PIONEERS6. Women's cricket - a history of innovation7. How Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test8. League cricket - the game's great missed opportunity9. A fair result in foul weatherPART THREE - CRICKET'S PROBLEMS10. Cricket's concussion crisis11. Stereotypes12. What will the future of women's cricket look like? And the case for reparation13. Why doesn't South Africa produce more Black batters?

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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. Tim Wigmore is the author of Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, which won the Wisden Book of the Year and Telegraph Cricket Book of the Year awards in 2020. He is a sportswriter for The Daily Telegraph, and has also written regularly for The New York Times, The Economist, the New Statesman and ESPNCricinfo.

• IntroductionPART ONE - CENTRES OF POWER: NEW AND OLD1. Batters and bowlers, nature and nurture2. The strange conservatism of Kerry Packer, and why Covid-19 will accelerate the rise of club cricket3. An urban sport in a rural country: the challenge of Indian cricket4. An Ashes Education - why cricket's oldest rivalry is the battle of private schools5. The rise of New Zealand: by luck or designPART TWO - PIONEERS6. Women's cricket - a history of innovation7. How Jayasuriya and Gilchrist transformed Test8. League cricket - the game's great missed opportunity9. A fair result in foul weatherPART THREE - CRICKET'S PROBLEMS10. Cricket's concussion crisis11. Stereotypes12. What will the future of women's cricket look like? And the case for reparation13. Why doesn't South Africa produce more Black batters?

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