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The Economics of Gender and Sport - A Quantitative Analysis of Women's Cricket (Hardcover)
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The Economics of Gender and Sport - A Quantitative Analysis of Women's Cricket (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics
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While women's cricket, and women's sport in general, has gained
enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV
audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its
participants, and there are few, if any, quantitative assessments
of the game. The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative
Analysis of Women's Cricket fills that gap. The work analyses the
different forms of cricket - Test cricket, One-day, T20 - and is
based on the latest sets of available data. It seeks to answer
questions such as how well female cricketers play, how well they
are paid, who the superstars are, and how competitive women's
cricket is. It also examines more general issues which affect men's
cricket too, with the over-arching theme of this book being
inequality. First, the chapters discuss inequality in the
distribution of luck. The book discusses the importance of luck in
cricket and suggests a way of distinguishing between luck and
ability in determining match outcomes. Second there is access
inequality, which means that players from certain groups have an
advantage in terms of being chosen to play in representative teams.
Third, there is inequality in tournament outcomes, and this carries
implications for the degree of competitive balance in contests
between teams. Fourth is the issue of inequality in the quality of
umpiring in men's and women's cricket. Fifth, there is inequality
between men and women in their respective remunerations as
cricketeers. Lastly, there is inequality in performance between
players: the book explains how batting and bowling averages can be
adjusted to better reflect player performance. The volume will find
an audience among advanced students and researchers in sports
economics, sports-related and gender studies. More generally, it
will appeal to lovers of cricket who wish to read about the game in
terms which are more than simply anecdotal.
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