Equipments used while playing cricket

While playing cricket if you take some precautionary steps you can prevent injury. Whether you are batting, bowling, fielding or wicket keeping, you should always wear safety equipment like batting pads, batting gloves and helmet.

Players get their fingers injured more often while fielding. This happens when ball bounces unevenly and either rises too high or not enough. Because the ball did not bounce as anticipated, it may hit the fielder on his fingers and injure him. Batsmen and bowlers suffer fractures, sprains when ball hits a body part.

A cricket match lasts very long. Do prepare your body at the beginning of the game, work on your muscles by doing mild warm-up; a 10 minute walk would be fine. Bowlers suffer the most with muscle injuries because their arms and legs are exerted each time they make a delivery, even within a game. Fielding team captain should not use younger bowlers for extended spells, as it can lead to injuries.

Whether you have practice sessions or playing a real game wear helmet with a face guard. Always remember to adjust the grill of the face guard so that it is small enough to stop the ball’s motion. While batting when you’re facing a fast bowler, always wear the necessary batting equipments like gloves, body and leg pads, forearm guards and abdominal guard.

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