Talking Cricket with Tim Wigmore

In this episode, we discuss cricket analytics, growing the game,
quantifying pressure/clutch in sport with one of the pre-eminent
analysts in our game, Tim Wigmore.


Tim Wigmore is a sports writer for The Daily Telegraph, and has
also written for The Economist, The New York Times, ESPNCricinfo
and The New Statesman amongst others. He has written many books
and we will be discussing his books and cricket writing in this
episode. He has a unique lens on Cricket having covered the
Associates extensively and thereon written about them and the
global game. His books provide us a worldview into the past and
the future with topics as diverse as the history of Afghanistan
Cricket to deep dives into the process England followed to become
double WC champions. We discussed T20 cricket, data v narrative,
Afghanistan and the future of world cricket with respect to the
short sightedness of those who run the game before rounding up
with book recommendations from Tim Crickonomics: The Anatomy of
Modern Cricket: Amazon US - https://bit.ly/3WuDTW0 Amazon UK –
https://bit.ly/4fbFW8I Amazon India - https://bit.ly/4de3yrB
Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution Amazon US -
https://bit.ly/46moTgg Amazon UK - https://bit.ly/4feeLKw Amazon
India – https://bit.ly/4faNRTI
         The Best: How
Elite Athletes are Made Amazon US - https://bit.ly/3Y8hKhq Amazon
UK – https://bit.ly/4fbFJ5q Amazon India - https://bit.ly/3zSdFE0
White Hot: The Inside Story of England Cricket’s Double World
Champions Amazon US - https://bit.ly/3Wz7pKl Amazon UK -
https://bit.ly/3WcF8rw Amazon India – https://bit.ly/4cVIDda
Second XI: Cricket In Its Outposts Amazon US -
https://bit.ly/3SgN5eb Amazon UK – https://bit.ly/4fcqVmW Amazon
India - https://bit.ly/4bT8ErS Pre-Order his next book on Amazon
UK – Test Cricket: A History - https://bit.ly/3yic7Tb
Recommendations from Tim Wigmore Pundits from Pakistan by Rahul
Bhattacharya - https://bit.ly/3LJwETG Beyond a Boundary by CLR
James - https://bit.ly/3A0e9Ik The Unquiet Ones by Osman
Samiuddin - https://bit.ly/4bTKM7G Different Class Duncan Stone -
https://bit.ly/4fcYq8V