Cricket is a quite unique sport among all sports. It is the national summer sport of England but has now become an international sport and is played throughout the year. Like other sports, cricket coaching is the most important part to construct a mental attitude toward the game. At the early stage of learning, proper cricket bowling and batting technique can be difficult but do not leave. Gradually you will get the right technique. Sports and their related exercises help build fitness that can be beneficial for mental health. Playing cricket not only fulfils the physical health benefits but also develops many skills like team skills, and social cooperation skills along with learning how to cope with winning and losing.
Are you planning to enroll yourself in a cricket coaching centre? Don’t think so much. Cricket is one of the passionate games that can be played anywhere. Like other sports, you need to buy some essential equipment like a cricket bat, cricket ball, and wicket along with some sweat absorbent cotton cloths like a round neck t-shirt and trousers.
List of the most important things you need to buy before starting cricket coaching:
Cricket Bat
The cricket bat should be perfectly carved and made out of special wood like the willow. The willow wood provides the strength and compression that is required for a cricket bat. The bats are available in a different range of sizes, you need to pick them up in accordance with your height. For example, size 6 bats are recommended for a 5’3”- 5’5” player. Height–to–size charts will be available at sports shops as well as online sites.
Cricket Ball
The spherical-shaped cricket balls are made with layers of twine wound around a cork core and covered with a red or a white-coloured leather shell. Two pieces of leather are stitched with six rows which helps the ball swing, cut and spin. The balls are also made in accordance with international parameters. The colour of the ball also depends on the matches, red balls are used in test matches whereas white balls are used in ODI and T20 matches.
Cricket Clothes
Cricket clothes should be always breathable and have quick drying fabric as you need to do flexible movement and extensive physical work like sprinting, running and diving. Cricket players are required to don a collared t-shirt for men and long trousers. The cricket players’ uniforms are traditionally called ‘cricket whites ‘. You need to select according to your size.
Wickets
A wicket consists of three stumps 28 inches high with sequal thickness and two pieces of wood called bails 4.37 inches. Two sets of wickets should be placed opposite and parallel to each other in between the length of 22 yards cricket pitch. The stumps and bails are usually made from wood but nowadays plastic composite materials with LED lights flash off the wickets. You may purchase the wickets from any sports shop or online site.
Above all other protective equipment is required like a keeper or a batsman glove as well as pads, helmets, chest guard, elbow guard and arm guard. Cricket is a sport that improves the feeling of cooperation and teaches how to work together in harmony.
