Management of the Cricketing Ecosystem: An Analytic Approach (Sports Economics, Management and Policy)

This book is a culmination of sustained research work on the evaluation of cricket and its management to imbibe a balance between its various formats by using data and analytics. The book has identified three primary stakeholders—administrators, players and spectators—each having their own ambitions. In order for convergence of these ambitions, it has prescribed the networked governance in place of hierarchic governance for the International Cricket Council (ICC), the cricket’s apex body. This book aims at creating a balance between formats that each country should play. 

There is as much dearth of academic research on this topic, as there is abundance of individual viewpoints from professionals related to the game. Hence at the outset, the book has created a  action points and has underlined the lack of convergence with present way of governance. This book has created a meta-metric framework for formative assessment of influence across cricket formats. In order to assess the influence of T20 on test matches and on India’s performance, a comparison between pre-IPL period (1998–2007) and post-IPL period (2008–2017) by using this framework has been done.

Subhasis Ray is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Kolkata, India. Earlier, he taught at ICFAI Business School (IBS). With more than 11 years of teaching and research experience, he also has nearly 18 years of industry experience in IT consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Tech Mahindra and IBM. He holds dual master’s in statistics and computer science from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He later completed M.Phil. and D.Phil. from the University of Calcutta. He has published his research in several journals of repute: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Decision, South Asian Journal of Management, Journal of Statistical Research, Journal of Sports Analytics, Malaysian Journal of Sport Science and Recreation. His work on cricket has been cited in Gulf News, and many ofhis articles are published in The Telegraph.