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.

Introduction.- Management of cricketing ecosystem.- Impact assessment framework across cricket formats.- Formative assessment of T20 influences.- Cricketers' career pattern.- Fans' expectation from cricket.- Steady state cricket mix.- Fine tuning the cricket mix.- Concluding remarks.