Crickonomics Quotes

“Other countries with large immigrant populations are also well poised to benefit from these residency rules. The most obvious is the United States: ahead of the 2023 launch of Major League Cricket, a new professional cricket structure, several former Test cricketers have moved there, including New Zealand’s Corey Anderson, Pakistan’s Sami Aslam, and South Africa’s Dane Piedt.”
― Stefan Szymanski, Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket

“Crowd support helps, principally through the mechanism of influencing referees and umpires, as a substantial literature in economics has shown. The phenomenon is called ‘favouritism under social pressure’.”
― Stefan Szymanski, Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket

“Improving batting techniques against short bowling is often cited as a way of lowering the incidence of concussion, and it could have a small impact. But if it were simple for batters to make themselves safer, they would already have done so.”
― Stefan Szymanski, Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket

“including the World Elephant Polo Association,”
― Stefan Szymanski, Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket