Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
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gihanrat

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Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« on: March 05, 2024, 07:13:43 PM »

Recently got asked by a mate (a top-order batter - guess no-one is perfect!) about best gloves to protect the fingertips. He suffered a fracture of the fingertip having taken one on the end of the fingers on the bottom hand, not the padded top bit (just a bit of thickened leather tab), and understandably worried about future injuries.

I have seen prob 2 glove designs this year which seem to address this potential issue, but have not had any first-hand (pardon the pun!) experience of either - wanted to reach out to the collective knowledge/experience of the forum to see what people think about design/protection/comfort.

The two gloves I've seen available currently are the H4L Tip-tech gloves, and the Kookaburra Kahuna Pro Players gloves, both of which aim to protect the fingertips, in different ways from what I can see from pictures online.

The bottom hand thumb-end protection has been addressed by a number of different manufacturers already (Kookaburra and Gray Nicolls come to mind), with the curved end section on the thumb to protect the thumb-end, with plastic/fibre inserts, and this seems more common on many of the higher end models nowadays.

I also remember Monty Panesar (among others) using some kind of modified cricket box on his bottom hand to protect his bottom hand fingers, which prob also curved round to at least protect to some degree the fingertips. I haven't seen it since (couldn't find a pic online to demonstrate it), or anything similar tried by anyone else, prob because flexibility would have been hugely affected.

Any thoughts? Any home-mods people have tried to help better protect fingertips?
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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2024, 10:53:58 PM »

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2xd6detfqA/?igsh=MXFuNW8xbDJnN2Y1Nw==

Seems like the Kahunas have adopted this tech. Looks a little more substantial than foam wrapping around the fingertips.
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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2024, 11:32:08 PM »

That seems to be the same setup the Kahuna Pro Players gloves have - although not sure if the Kookaburra sponsored pros are using this technology on their gloves, which seems to suggest to me that either the rebound force is an issue for bat-pad catches at long-off/deep cover  :D, or they are not very flexible.

I think GM had a glove previously which seemed to use reinforced panels over the fingers which would be in contact with the bat handle and thus dissipate the impact energy directly into the handle rather than crush the fingers - this seems to do the same thing, but I think the new Kook gloves also have a plastic strip round the ends of the fingers as well
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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2024, 07:34:43 AM »

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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2024, 07:36:28 AM »

I remember the ones Graeme Fowler used by Sondico,with the extra blue sausage protection around the end of the fingers...he was facing the 80's West Indian attack,so fair dues
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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2024, 03:23:00 PM »

I'm still fascinated by this video from Uzzy!
https://youtu.be/ZEtExtqS05c?si=GeOLRY45FYEdjKaJ
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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2024, 04:41:11 PM »

I'm still fascinated by this video from Uzzy!
https://youtu.be/ZEtExtqS05c?si=GeOLRY45FYEdjKaJ


Jeez. That's Elite levels of kit OCD. There's give in those little tabs of leather anyway generally tho, so the finger can move. No doubt most clubbies watching will feel that this will be the key to 1000 runs this season tho and be snipping it off their gloves immediately! 🤣
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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2024, 04:45:16 PM »

I remember the ones Graeme Fowler used by Sondico,with the extra blue sausage protection around the end of the fingers...he was facing the 80's West Indian attack,so fair dues

Clive Lloyd also.
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Re: Fingertip proctection on batting gloves
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2024, 07:37:42 PM »


Jeez. That's Elite levels of kit OCD. There's give in those little tabs of leather anyway generally tho, so the finger can move. No doubt most clubbies watching will feel that this will be the key to 1000 runs this season tho and be snipping it off their gloves immediately! 🤣

Guilty!

Did it with a pair of cheap, old gloves towards the end of last season. Felt a bit comfier… maybe. Didn’t get me close to 1000 runs though!
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