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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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrickonomics\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis incisive book will entertain and surprise all cricket lovers. 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Wigmore lays bare the challenges Test cricket faces and the fight required to preserve it.' \u003ci\u003eJonathan Agnew, BBC Test Match Special\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Hugely informative and enjoyable - a fantastic achievement. A must-read for all cricket lovers.' - \u003ci\u003ePeter Frankopan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Excellent' \u003ci\u003eMike Atherton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A vibrant, global history of the oldest form of cricket. Told across decades and vast spans of geography, using history, memoir, stats, science and the voices of greats living and gone, it is destined to be a classic . . . Monumental.' \u003ci\u003eThe Hindu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first narrative history of Test cricket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Test cricket is on the cusp of its 150th anniversary. 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In the process, they reveal how cricket has been transformed, both on and off the field. Told with vivid clarity and insight, this is the extraordinary and previously misunderstood story of Twenty20, how it is reshaping the sport – and what the future of cricket will look like. Readers will never watch a T20 game in quite the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For people that love cricket it’s really important to read it,” said Miles Jupp. “I found it extraordinary.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Fascinating . . . essential reading’ – Scyld Berry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A fascinating book, essential for anyone who wishes to understand cricket’s new age’ – Alex Massie, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An invaluable guide’ – Mike Atherton, The Times‘excellent . . . both breezily engaging, and full of the format’s latest, best and nerdiest thinking’ – Gideon Haigh, The Australian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The century’s most original cricket book . . . 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