The economics of sport is a rapidly growing field in economics. Sports data provides an excellent testing ground for a wide range of economic questions and ideas due to the ease of measuring inputs, productivity and outcomes, especially compared to other contexts. There is also the advantage that sports data is often high frequency and things move faster than in other contexts. Cricket in particular provides an opportunity to explore a number of economic ideas, owing to its discrete nature and long history which provides a rich source of data. Therefore, I am interested in exploring what economic insights we can obtain from cricket data. My work is joint with James Reade and Carl Singleton, who organise the Reading Online Sport Economics Seminars (ROSES).

Related Publications

Jewell, S., Reade, J. and Singleton, C. (2020) It’s just not cricket: the uncontested toss and the gentleman’s game. In: Butler, R. (ed.) Advances in Sports Economics. Agenda Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (In Press) (https://ideas.repec.org/p/rdg/emxxdp/em-dp2020-10.html)

Jewell, S. and Reade, J. (2020) On Fixing International Cricket Matches, The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, 13(2), 37-82

Work in Progress

Economics insights from Cricket Data (with James Reade and Carl Singleton)

Monitoring and decision making in cricket (with Carl Singleton and James Reade)

Forecasting Test Match Cricket Outcomes Ball by Ball (with James Reade)