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Equipment => Your Kit => Topic started by: WalkingWicket37 on August 31, 2018, 09:10:29 AM

Title: Hat to play in
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on August 31, 2018, 09:10:29 AM: Following on from the cable knit vs Modern/fleece jumper thread, caps have been mentioned.

It only seems fair this one is put to the vote too.

What is your preferred style of cap:
The modern baseball cap
The traditional baggy
The old school wide brim
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Post by: Buzz on August 31, 2018, 09:30:17 AM: I prefer a traditional cap, but they are rubbish these days compared to the older versions I have.

I normally reach for the floppy sunhat now instead.
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Post by: SLA on August 31, 2018, 09:36:52 AM: Some baseball caps are more acceptable than others. Its the low quality mesh ones with the manufacturers logo plastered all over one side that are particularly horrific. Others have a more traditional design and are plain except for the club logo embroidered on the front.

I tend to field in a club baggy but then bat in a (decent quality) club baseball cap.
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Post by: Jaffa on August 31, 2018, 10:04:57 AM: Wide brim.

Greg Chappell ones are the best. SS ones are cheaper and pretty good too. They have extra towling to stop the sweat.
https://www.cricketcentre.com.au/product-group/411-the-original-greg-chappell-hat/product (https://www.cricketcentre.com.au/product-group/411-the-original-greg-chappell-hat/product)
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Post by: stevat on August 31, 2018, 11:08:33 AM: Baggy or traditional English style wool cap all the way for me. What cricket is supposed to look like.

Also, love the way they wear in, you have to earn the sweat stained worn in look.
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Post by: wcc on August 31, 2018, 11:20:11 AM: Have used gentieman and players traditional baggy for a few years good quality
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Post by: Biggie Smalls on August 31, 2018, 11:22:11 AM: Wide brim greg chappell hat . Im too pasty white for anything else.
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Post by: Northern monkey on August 31, 2018, 12:02:20 PM: Golfing flat cap,,,, had a dramatic effect on my batting avg this year, so I can’t possibly play in anything else
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Post by: Northern monkey on August 31, 2018, 12:05:03 PM: (https://s33.postimg.cc/wakolw0pb/482374_DA-71_C1-4_E14-_BD32-85_FA52_BCE3_D5.png)
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Post by: stevat on August 31, 2018, 12:09:33 PM: Peaky Blinders meets Bodyline
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Post by: Calzehbhoy on August 31, 2018, 12:31:35 PM: Had to be a wide brim!

#sunsafe
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Post by: jblowe on September 04, 2018, 02:12:37 PM: Quote from: Northern monkey on August 31, 2018, 12:05:03 PM
(https://s33.postimg.cc/wakolw0pb/482374_DA-71_C1-4_E14-_BD32-85_FA52_BCE3_D5.png)

ha @Northern monkey looks like you have lost your whippet. While the guy in the wide brim is thinking "how can someone in that hat score so many runs"
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Post by: stevat on September 04, 2018, 02:19:50 PM: I wear a hat like that virtually every day to commute to work - am also Northern - never batted in it, but perhaps that is where I'm going wrong, is it the source of all your powers @Northern monkey ?
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Post by: leatherseat on September 04, 2018, 03:05:44 PM: Quote from: stevat on August 31, 2018, 11:08:33 AM
Baggy or traditional English style wool cap all the way for me. What cricket is supposed to look like.

Also, love the way they wear in, you have to earn the sweat stained worn in look.

Traditional English style ideally (I always associate baggy cricket caps with Australia), but some baseball designs look quite clean (I play in baseball cap - ECB CA in black), but am on the lookout for a decent traditional cap.
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Post by: Northern monkey on September 04, 2018, 03:14:35 PM: Yes
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Post by: Warneymonster on September 04, 2018, 03:23:40 PM: traditional or wide brim all day, tend to field in a wide brim and bat in the cap
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Post by: stevat on September 04, 2018, 03:41:13 PM: Quote from: leatherseat on September 04, 2018, 03:05:44 PM
Traditional English style ideally (I always associate baggy cricket caps with Australia), but some baseball designs look quite clean (I play in baseball cap - ECB CA in black), but am on the lookout for a decent traditional cap.

Gentlemen and Players or Albion for the traditional English cap are fantastic quality and affordable. My team plays in baseball caps by Surridge that are okay, but a proper cap looks so much better - especially if you can find a local place that will embroider your club logo for you. Then you've just got to earn the weathered look.
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Post by: enlightened on September 05, 2018, 08:46:29 AM: Nothing wrong with a decent baseball cap. You purists can take things too far you know! :D
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Post by: ABello1 on September 07, 2018, 01:07:28 PM: prefer the traditional cap that my sat team uses but midweek have a baseball style cap that I can never get the fitting right
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Post by: Windowshatter on April 16, 2019, 09:54:43 AM: Baseball cap, every single time.
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Post by: strang on April 17, 2019, 08:06:42 AM: Quote from: Warneymonster on September 04, 2018, 03:23:40 PM
traditional or wide brim all day, tend to field in a wide brim and bat in the cap
Same