Management of the Cricketing Ecosystem

ISBN-13: 9789811964848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Subhasis Ray

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction 

1.1 Cricket and its evolution 

1.2 The cricketing ecosystem 

1.2.1 Political dimension 

1.2.2 Commercial dimension 

1.2.3 Social dimension 

1.2.4 Technical dimension 

1.3 Crises and resilience 

1.4 IPL: the game changer 

1.5 Organization of the book 

References 

Chapter 2. Management of cricketing ecosystem 

2.1 Stakeholders and Governance 

2.2 Scant management focus in contemporary research 

2.3 Establishing the research paradigms 

2.3.1 Theoretical edifice 

2.3.2 Sentiment analysis of viewpoints 

2.3.3 Summary of action points 

2.3.4 Evidence based assessment of gaps 

2.3.5 Research paradigms 

2.4 Finalizing scope of this book 

References 

Chapter 3. Impact assessment framework across cricket formats 

3.1 Introduction 

3.2 Modus Operandi 

3.3 Ranking three formats of cricket  

3.4 Meta-metric framework for formative assessment 

3.4.1 T20 on test playing pattern 

3.4.2 T20 on India„s test performance 

3.5 Summary of expert feedback 

3.6 Conclusion 

References 

Chapter 4. Formative assessment of T20 influences 

4.1 Construction of the metrication framework 

4.2 Scraping secondary data from Web 

4.2.1 Strategy for Secondary Data Collection 

4.2.2 Approaches for scraping from WWW 

4.3 Analysis-ready data preparation 

4.3.1 Data validation 

4.3.2 Data Transformation 

4.4 Impact of T20 on Test playing pattern 

4.5 Impact of T20 on India„s test performance 

4.6 Summary findings 

References 

Chapter 5. Cricketers‟ career pattern  

5.1 Sports career transition 

5.2 Extant Literature  

5.3 Analysis construct  

5.3.1 Hypothesis formulation and data identification for RQ1 

5.3.2 Research planning and data identification for RQ2 

5.4 Data preprocessing  

5.5 Career patterns (Indian players) 

5.6 Career patterns (Australian players) 

5.7 Closing discussion 

References  

Chapter 6. Fans‟ expectation from cricket 

6.1 Introduction 

6.2 Sports as a service and Fans as its consumers 

6.3 Deriving the construct REST  

6.4 Hypotheses formulation 

6.5 Data preprocessing  

6.6 Results and discussions 

6.6.1. Effect of age and gender on liking a cricket format 

6.6.2. Modeling overall liking using SEM  

6.6.3. Performance analysis for test matches 

6.6.4. Performance analysis for ODI matches 

6.6.5. Performance analysis for T20 matches   

6.7 Managerial implications 

6.8 Conclusions 

References  

Chapter 7. Steady state cricket mix  

7.1 Introduction  

7.2 Volumetric analysis of cricket mix  

7.3 Country progression across formats  

7.4 Identifying homogeneous cricket regions  

7.5 Steady state cricket mix using Markov chain analysis  

7.6 Conclusion 

References 

Chapter 8. Fine tuning the cricket mix  

8.1 The concept of Value  

8.2 Problem formulation  

8.3 Value creation and appreciation matrices  

8.4 Sensitivity analysis  

8.5 Conclusion 

References 

 

Chapter 9. Concluding remarks 

9.1 Theoretical novelty  

9.2 Governance implications  

9.3 Future directions 

References

O autorze

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 of his articles are published in The Telegraph.

Blurb

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 baseline by analyzing these viewpoints against the ICC 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.