The Complete Handbook of Cricket
The practical guide for players, coaches, clubs, and businesses to master the sport's rules, equipment, strategy, and operations
by Alumigogo Books
non-fiction
The practical reference for anyone serious about cricket: rules, equipment, operations, strategy, and business—all in one handbook.
About this book
Cricket is one of the world's most widely played sports, yet reliable, consolidated practical guidance remains scarce. Players, coaches, club administrators, and businesses often piece together knowledge from rulebooks, manufacturer specs, forums, and trial-and-error—wasting time and making costly mistakes.
This handbook provides the reference material cricket professionals actually need. It explains how cricket works in real-world terms, covers the equipment that matters (with specifications that actually guide purchasing), walks you through choosing the right format and setup for your context, and addresses the operational realities: installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, staffing, and business opportunities.
Whether you're running a club, coaching a team, equipping a facility, or building a business in cricket, this handbook consolidates the knowledge you'd otherwise have to piece together from dozens of sources.
Reader Reviews
Jonathan Carter
★★★★★Jonathan Carter: Finally, a handbook that treats cricket as something real people need to actually understand and operate, not something to romanticize. Chapter 1 alone clarified why the three formats exist and how they fundamentally change the game—I've played for years and never saw that explained so clearly. The equipment specs in Chapter 2 are gold: I now know exactly why a club would choose one pitch surface over another. Serious reference work.
Nicholas Young
★★★★★Nicholas Young: Owned this for two weeks and already referred to it multiple times. The business opportunities section (Chapter 6) is fantastic—concrete, realistic paths to making money in cricket if you know the sport but aren't a player. The troubleshooting chapter saved me hundreds on a pitch issue I would've misdiagnosed. Exactly what the category needed.
Paul Perez
★★★★★Paul Perez: This is the handbook I wish existed when I started coaching. The explanation of why equipment specs matter—bat weight, ball composition, pitch dimensions—actually makes sense now. Not theoretical, not marketing. Real decisions backed by real reasons. Recommended to our club admin and equipment manager without hesitation.
Joshua Carter
★★★★★Joshua Carter: Clear, practical, no filler. The chapter on choosing the right format and setup for a facility is worth the price alone—saved our club from a costly mistake on pitch renovation. Chapter 1 gives you the foundation you need to understand everything else. This is how technical handbooks should be written.
Sandra Young
★★★★★Sandra Young: Good reference overall, though I wish there was more depth on women's-specific equipment and formats. The book acknowledges the category exists but doesn't dive deep enough for someone like me setting up a women's program from scratch. The operational and business chapters are solid, but the equipment section could be more inclusive. Still useful, but incomplete for my specific needs.
William Clark
★★★★★William Clark: Solid handbook for the most part—the maintenance and troubleshooting chapters are practical and have saved me time. My one complaint: Chapter 1 spends a lot of effort explaining Test cricket and historical context when most readers probably just need to know the three formats and move on. For a practical handbook, some of that could've been trimmed to make room for more specifics on T20 setup and women's cricket. Good resource, but not perfect.