Topic: Best Protection Cricket Batting Gloves (Read 8951 times)

gihanrat · « **on:** December 17, 2013, 09:05:31 AM »

Hi all,

First posting on this wonderful site!

Need cheering up after the woeful Ashes campaign this morning.

So a cheery subject (from the perspective of a tailender!). To save you from broken fingers from those rapid bumpers, what is everyones opinion on the most effective batting glove on the market in terms of protection?

I know most people feel that "sausage style" traditional gloves provide better protection in terms of coverage over the length of fingers over multi-segmented gloves, but what about the various other technologies that companies claim to improve protection? Any "hits" (pardon the pun!) or any "misses"?

Any top 3 recommendations for top protection gloves?

Also, what additional protection can you add onto a glove (I seem to remember in the late 1990's there was a trend to stick a cricket-box style plastic cage onto gloves I haven't seen this at all in recent years)?

Have the gloves with the double flap over the bottom two fingers now completely gone out of fashion (from the 1980s-1990s)?

Looking forward to hearing the opinions of all!

horseman · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2013, 09:21:46 AM »

Welcome buddy.

Personally I like the split fingers on the newbery sps gloves. I think the breaking in time on sausage gloves has completely disappeared with peoplr wanting to use them straight out the packaging. I have just bought some cicada gloves that I saw wes durston using last year. Pittards palms with full rounded plastic inserts on all fingers. More traditional sausage style gloves with a split around the knuckles.

gihanrat · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2013, 09:42:51 AM »

Good to hear from you.

Which particular model of cicada gloves did you get? Are the full rounded plastic inserts a sort of "cage" around the fingers?

I remember slaz gloves had a cage or chamber system to dissipate the shock directly to the handle on the bottom two fingers in the early days of such technology, and a wierd GM glove similarly that had a hard cast over all the finger ends much like the Kookaburra mitt gloves of this last season, but again the shock was dissipated directly to the handle

horseman · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2013, 09:47:21 AM »

Gm had the teknik glove where the protection was horizontal on the fingers. Sort of like the kookaburra ones last year. The cicada ones im unsure of the model but will get some pics up later. Nice glove and great price compared to some of the branded bohemoths. Think monty is the only one with any extra protection on his bowlinv hand nowadays.

gihanrat · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2013, 09:57:13 AM »

I think the GM Teknik gloves are the ones I'm thinking of. Also the original Slaz Pro Test / 2000 Pro gloves from the late 1990's/early 2000's similar idea but just for the leading two fingers only.

I can imagine Monty sitting there in the dressing room of the second test, busy modding away his batting gloves whilst watching MJ steaming in at England's batting line-up. He gave a pretty good account of himself in terms of courage when batting - maybe the extra finger protection gave him this sense of invincibility that the others did not!!!

Any successful mods that others have made to their gloves to improve protection?

Some might say the best protection money can buy is more batting lessons!!!

WalkingWicket37 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:03:50 AM »

Mods to gloves, I can help there! (Although it's broken finger advice so might not be 100% what you're after)
Cut the meshy bit away from the inside of the two fingers, put on the glove (your strapped fingers now go in) and fasten with medical tape! The fingers are joined so you can leave fingers strapped an tere is, theoretically, a larger surface area to desperate the inpact.
Alternatively just don't break your finger and this isn't required

As for the gloves with the best protection go for the Kook mittens!

gihanrat · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:08:45 AM »

Ha! good advice! I'm trying not to get my digits turned to cream crackers! But maybe pre-emptive approach.........

Do you add any extra fibre/plastic inserts to help with this? Anyone tried any extra rubber/foam type materials to lessen impact force?

WalkingWicket37 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:11:42 AM »

Quote from: gihanrat on December 17, 2013, 10:08:45 AM

Ha! good advice! I'm trying not to get my digits turned to cream crackers! But maybe pre-emptive approach.........

Do you add any extra fibre/plastic inserts to help with this? Anyone tried any extra rubber/foam type materials to lessen impact force?

No fibre or plastic inserts no, but I did in the end use some contact adhesive in the fingers which dries sort of rubbery. That held the fingers together and made it one surface instead of two.

King pair · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:16:09 AM »

How quick is the bowling you are facing? Ive faced some sharp bowling and never had an issue with gloves not giving proper protection.
if you get top end gloves, no matter what style, unless you get hit really really full on by a sharp bowler you shouldnt have an issue.

gihanrat · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:25:33 AM »

Have played against some pretty sharp bowlers, some of whom are pinging it down from great heights so getting a lot of bounce. I'm a short chap so top part of my blade has seen as much action as the sweetspot! Prob says more about my batting prowess than anything else! But I do like to look after my spinning fingers so that some day they can extract turn like Nathan Lyon this morning (did you see THAT delivery? straight to leg slip, from pitching on off from around the wicket to Graeme Swann).

A couple of our batters have had their fingers broken in the nets this season when using some of the "commercial" gloves (albiet not top of the range), hence my polite enquiry. Most of the protection is between the ball and the finger - anyone come across anything to increase the cushioning between fingertip and handle (ie palm-side)? Granted this may make it slightly harder to grip the handle?

WalkingWicket37 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:36:46 AM »

Quote from: gihanrat on December 17, 2013, 10:25:33 AM

Have played against some pretty sharp bowlers, some of whom are pinging it down from great heights so getting a lot of bounce. I'm a short chap so top part of my blade has seen as much action as the sweetspot! Prob says more about my batting prowess than anything else! But I do like to look after my spinning fingers so that some day they can extract turn like Nathan Lyon this morning (did you see THAT delivery? straight to leg slip, from pitching on off from around the wicket to Graeme Swann).

A couple of our batters have had their fingers broken in the nets this season when using some of the "commercial" gloves (albiet not top of the range), hence my polite enquiry. Most of the protection is between the ball and the finger - anyone come across anything to increase the cushioning between fingertip and handle (ie palm-side)? Granted this may make it slightly harder to grip the handle?

Spend a bit more on top of the range gloves then mate, worth an extra few quid to avoid broken bones in my opinion.

As for the extra cushioning try adding a grip like the old Kook feather ones (minimal difference but they feel more cushioned) or I'm sure I've seen people putting a sponge under the grip (but this might have been to thicken the bottom go the handle).

I might be talking (or should I say typing) a lost of rubbish but it's worth a thought at least.

gihanrat · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:47:58 AM »

Quote from: CameronPye94 on December 17, 2013, 10:36:46 AM

Spend a bit more on top of the range gloves then mate, worth an extra few quid to avoid broken bones in my opinion.

As for the extra cushioning try adding a grip like the old Kook feather ones (minimal difference but they feel more cushioned) or I'm sure I've seen people putting a sponge under the grip (but this might have been to thicken the bottom go the handle).

I might be talking (or should I say typing) a lost of rubbish but it's worth a thought at least.

Yeah, my advice to our batters too! But what is everyones opinion as the best gloves out there in terms of protecting against broken fingers?

smilley792 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2013, 10:50:19 AM »

Gloves protection has surely improved over the past so many years.

I can remember as a youth watching Alex Stewart bat. He had his gloves, then a half plastic cup with padding in, taped to his bottom hand. Yet was still shaking his hand every time he got hit.

Yet having watched the ashes(unfortunately) I've noticed so many English batsmen being rattled on the gloves by Johnson's 90 plus delivery sand not even grimacing.

Some people will claim these are special players editions, but surely the top range gloves of any manufacturer should offer the same protection(and I doubt you'd be facing Mitch on a sat?)

As for my experience, I net in my b3 gloves. And save my pumas and GMs for matches.
Our opening quickie caught me on the bottom hand bottom two fingers on Sunday. And I felt nothing! (He's been clocked at 81mph)
Yet bizarrely these gloves were given to me for free, as they were a sample, b3 didn't deem good enough!!

So on that basis surely the proper b3 gloves would be(Trent Johnson among others use them for Ireland)

As for alround, I've found sausage fingers tog dive better protection, but non sausage to be more maneuverable from the box.

gihanrat · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2013, 11:03:14 AM »

Good to know! Prices of some of the leading brands can be up to �100 in the UK, hence my question really - is there much difference in protection afforded between some gloves made by more bespoke companies which cost less than half of top high volume brands? Want to protect my pinkies as much as possible, but don't want to end up paying needlessly for minimal extra protection. Hence I'm interested in what people think are the best protection gloves they have or have used in the past (a cost-effectiveness exercise to some extent, but wanting to maximise on protection as much as possible)

GarrettJ · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2013, 11:24:32 AM »

best bet is to get the top of the range gloves as they are the exact same gloves test players wear.

If i was you i'd go to pro direct and get a pair of last years top of the range at a sale price (and pray they are in stock).

http://www.prodirectcricket.com/Products/Puma-Pulse-5000-RH-Batting-Glove-Right-Hand-Batting-Equipment-WhiteGreenBlue-60746.aspx

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