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Fetchthatone

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Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« on: April 05, 2011, 09:09:29 PM »
Hi there,

I'm interested in getting the Nike Flywire Pace II, and I was wondering how these would be for batting?

Many thanks
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Re: Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2011, 09:13:36 PM »
You can use them, but you may come in for a bit of sledging!
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Re: Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 09:17:41 PM »
I have never had sledging for my footwear and when I was a fast bowler I wore my bowling boots to bat in
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Re: Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2011, 09:23:55 PM »
ive always wore bowling boots to bat in and never had a single comment made just moving to batting spikes now for the first time.
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Re: Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2011, 09:36:51 PM »
At most levels nobody gives a toss what boots you are wearing. I've always batted and bowled in the same shoes and in twenty years nobody has said anything.
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Re: Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2011, 09:44:55 PM »
Never used to be any difference now its just some boots are lighter that dont give the support bowlers need, other boots give support but not as light upto the user.  Just materials & design developed.
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Re: Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2011, 06:12:40 AM »
But can you use batting shoes for bowling.....???
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Re: Can you use bowling shoes when batting?
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2011, 09:51:00 AM »
Quote from: Liam-SCCC on April 05, 2011, 09:13:36 PM
You can use them, but you may come in for a bit of sledging!

Maybe he was referring to the garish design of the boot!
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