It delivered much more.
It is blokey, disturbingly hilarious and will resonate long after you have flipped over the back page.
The characters the co-authors described were so familiar, it was hard to believe they did not spend their Saturdays at Tonga Park or Sunnyvale.
The book is the product of three savvy men, Dave Edwards, Sam Perry and Ian Higgins, and has been well received since its release last year.
The Otago Daily Times spoke to Edwards (30), who has family in New Zealand, and hit him with the obvious question - what is the best ratio for cordial?
It seems a ludicrous concept but the book traverses the absurd and a good deal of it rings true.
That's the funniest part.
"The tone we tried to strike with the book is somewhere between outrageous humour but also exploring masculinity and the way that men interact with other men,'' Edwards said.
"There is a lot of humour to be found in the book but we also hope people will see beyond that and see that there is a little bit more to it than a lot of jokes about cricket.
"It is a good insight into Australian cricket and the dog-eat- dog world. And by the sounds of it there is a bit of that in New Zealand.''
The Grade Cricketer actually began life as a twitter account four years ago and now has more than 44,000 followers.
"It is not your usual route for a first-time author but it has been all right.
"Every Christmas there is a litany of terrible auto-biographies coming out with sanitised lives ... so we thought we'd do a real honest memoir of this guy.''
Edwards, Perry and Higgins have a combined 30-plus years' experience of playing grade cricket and that is where most of the ideas came from.
Edwards and Perry actually played together for North Sydney.
"There are a lot of strange blokes at that club.''
When the men decided to write the book they met in Melbourne and watched a second grade game for inspiration.
"Some bald medium pacer was running in and we thought, ‘That's Nuggsy'. We kind of got a sense of what these guys look like and then we had 30 beers and kind of wrote down the plot of where it would all go.
"The only thing we really had before we started was the final line.''
They divided up the writing but Edwards, who worked as a business journalist for a period, was charged with the editing and making sure it read like one voice.
There is no word on a sequel but Edwards said they were exploring options.
The final line in the book perhaps gives the strongest hint as to what direction the trio will take next.
You will have to read it to find out.
