Hi all
First time on this forum so hello to you all!
I'm 20 and playing my cricket in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
I took up keeping again towards the end of the 2011 season after injuring my knee requiring surgery and no longer being able to bowl (its the impact that cuases pain not the bending which i why i can still keep). I used to keep as a junior and was a quite high level football goalkeeper so jumped at the chance to get back into it when bowling became a no no.
I use Puma wicket keeping gear
Pretty happy with the kinetic pads as pads are pads and don't really make much difference i don't think, just a bit of protection for the ones keeping low.
However I am using puma 4000 kinetic gloves and the puma inners. They are full chamois. However using these inners are now seeming to take the feel of the ball away and am noticing niks stood up seems to be popping back out sometimes quite easily as my hands are feeling like 'solid' and not so flexible, basically feeling like to much padding so not really feeling the bowl going in.
Would you suggest swapping to non padded inners (which i used to use)?
Or is this down to me not relaxing my hands or the gloves (i doubt its the gloves!)
And also i'm seriously considering the custom made gloves from Geoff Wymer, would people recommend these? I've only heard about Geoff from reading several threads before posting this one and people seems to really think these gloves were good. Would i be ok going from a modern puma glove to Wymers more classic make?
Thank you very much in advance,
Kieron
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