How Much Do Cricket Coaches Get Paid?

David Peterson
3 min readJan 28, 2022

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Top 10 Highest Paid Cricket Coaches

We all look at our beloved cricketers in the field and admire them for their great skills and fitness but of course, we should give credit to the people behind the scenes and on the sidelines of the games, who are their coaches who shaped them into excellent cricketers that we all of us adore today.

Excellent teachers make excellent students after all.

But the real question is, how much are these cricket coaches paid for training leagues of amazing cricketers today?

How Much Does a Cricket Coach Usually Make?

Recently on the 24th of August (2021), the average salary of a cricket coach in the United States of America is around 41, 162 dollars every year. It usually ranges from 26, 000 dollars (25th percentile) to 48, 000 dollars (75th percentile). If it is calculated, these cricket coaches are basically earning about 19.79 dollars an hour, a total of 792 dollars every week, and a huge sum of 3,430 dollars per month.

This is only the average though. Some major leagues and coaches of pro-athletes are paid higher than the average with an amount of 71, 000 dollars and as for the minor leagues, they go lower as 16, 000 dollars. As you may have noticed, the pay for a cricket coach varies and could totally change in accordance with the skill level, location, and the number of years they have been coaching.

Who are the Top Paid Cricket Coaches in the Present?

In this segment of the article, we will be enumerating one of the world’s top-paid cricket coaches and the reasons behind their well-deserved pays.

10. Lalchand Rajput, Zimbabwe ($69,875.44)

The Zimbabwe team, for the first time in the twenty-first century, has failed to enter the 50-overs World Cup. However, this nation of Africa has been preparing itself for the upcoming T20 Qualifiers that is held in the latter half of the year. Despite not qualifying for the World Cup, it will be a good time to redeem themselves under the hands and reins of Zimbibian coach, Lalchand Rajput. He became the coach for the Zimbabwe cricket team at the end of 2018.

He was a former cricketer so he will make a perfect guide for the current team since he has the experience. Rajput became the coach a couple of years ago for the Afghanistan side and the country won a One Day International against the West Indies team. He was also the team manager for India back in 2007 and the Indian team won in the T20 2007.

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9. Floyd Reifer, West Indies ($125,779.11)

Floyd Reifer formerly represented the Caribbean nation. Because of him, the Caribbean was led to the champion’s trophy during 2009. This was also the time when the popular players of the team boycotted the cricket tournament due to a dispute about payments. He was also the head coach for the Scottish league, the Combined Campuses and Colleges.

His salary is around 125,779.11 dollars as to what the board has promised him.

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David Peterson
David Peterson

Written by David Peterson

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