Miscellaneous
Today we’re going deep in to the business of cricket with Tim Wigmore, who has broken a few stories over the past week in The Daily Telegraph around the consequences of coronavirus on the English county game, and the broader Twenty20 calendar from iPL to the Big Bash. We talk about the economics of T20, the development of the game around the world and how cricketers earn a living. Twenty20 cricket was an early example of some of the big themes in the sports business, from the rise of short form sport, private equity in sport and how vulnerable governing bodies are to apparently rich men arriving in helicopters.Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde have written a great book called Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, out now and available via Amazon.