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Equipment => Wicket Keeping => Topic started by: stubbzy on February 03, 2011, 08:56:22 PM

Title: mccullum
Post by: stubbzy on February 03, 2011, 08:56:22 PM

is it me or is he keeeping with no pads on ?

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Post by: justnotcricket86 on February 03, 2011, 09:01:51 PM

If you are watching the highlight on SS3 he was wearing puma flextechs

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Post by: Liam-SCCC on February 03, 2011, 09:02:55 PM

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/108770655.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF87892102A727B1636DE2E600C85B71D19ECFB46B6C1D9ABAF4408EF77EAE15A457D2A8 ?

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Post by: stubbzy on February 03, 2011, 09:04:37 PM

im pretty sure stood back he didnt have any keeping pads on !! im sure iv seeen him do it before againest bangledesh

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Post by: johan95 on February 03, 2011, 09:13:20 PM

Could it be that he is wearing his pads under his trousers? ???

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Post by: justnotcricket86 on February 03, 2011, 09:14:35 PM

Quote from: Liam-SCCC on February 03, 2011, 09:02:55 PM

[url]http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/108770655.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF87892102A727B1636DE2E600C85B71D19ECFB46B6C1D9ABAF4408EF77EAE15A457D2A8[/url] ?

Im watching the highlights now and he def had the pumas on. He could have them under his trousers though a la Nic Pothas...although he did it to save spraying his pads and Bates his understudy at Hampshire does the same

It's quite nice keeping without pads though. I do some drills with a couple of our bowlers at nets and it's rather liberating!

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Post by: stubbzy on February 03, 2011, 09:29:26 PM

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/105624867/AFP

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Post by: justnotcricket86 on February 03, 2011, 09:31:16 PM

Quote from: stubbzy on February 03, 2011, 09:29:26 PM

[url]http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/105624867/AFP[/url]

you win mate :)

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Post by: Tumo on February 03, 2011, 09:33:47 PM

Quote from: stubbzy on February 03, 2011, 09:29:26 PM

[url]http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/105624867/AFP[/url]

It's fielding pads underneath I think mate

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Post by: Alvaro on February 03, 2011, 10:16:33 PM

watching the highlights he is padless, including fielding pads

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Post by: stubbzy on February 04, 2011, 10:02:25 PM

its fair to say iv never seen that before

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Post by: johan95 on February 04, 2011, 10:04:02 PM

I suppose that if you are good enough, then it can be done, he has amazing hand-eye then though :) - much easier to move, could be incase balls are fired down the leg side, easier to dive without inhibiting pads..would love to know the real theory behind it though.

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Post by: Coach on February 04, 2011, 11:21:50 PM

Hockey shinpads? possibly extended in some way to cover higher up the knee? i have seen ice hockey pads used

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Post by: jamespaxton on February 05, 2011, 11:35:39 AM

do you have to wear pads to keep in, or not??

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Post by: peplow on February 05, 2011, 05:48:04 PM

apparently not :L

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Post by: johan95 on February 05, 2011, 05:52:18 PM

I doubt you do, it's a bit like a helmet I suppose. I'd be thinking that all gear is optional, obvs a bat is useful, as are pads, but if you are good enough to keep without pads then go ahead, but you compromise your safety I think... :|

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Post by: johnnyw on February 05, 2011, 07:02:27 PM

In all fairness how many times do you see keepers getting hit in the shins?

They have gloves to catch the ball!!

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Post by: mwood on April 15, 2011, 02:35:07 PM

 de villiers wore his pads underneath the other day in IPL too.

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Post by: jamespaxton on April 15, 2011, 02:36:37 PM

yeh pads are actually pretty pointless

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Post by: espocrespo on April 15, 2011, 02:40:51 PM

McCullum kept in one of his last games for Nz without pads when he was standing back, think it was southee bowling

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Post by: mwood on April 15, 2011, 02:42:41 PM

Yeah only in Sub-Continent though. WOuldn't be much advantage over here.

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Post by: Opener on April 15, 2011, 08:12:30 PM

Mccullum did the same in New Zealand against Pakistan. In ODIs he would take his pads off for the last 5-10 overs  (don't remember exactly) so that he could run and stop the byes and quick singles.