to ask for help sourcing sodding cricket whites!

[MumBoyGirl]

I am at a complete loss.
I am new to cricket. In fact I know bugger all.
However, I have a 6 year old who is bloody good at sport (he doesn't get that from me!)
So...he has been asked to join local cricket club.

He is starting next week.
Although at this rate he'll be doing so in his pants.
I CANNOT find ANY cricket trousers that will not fall down on him (slim,small/average height).
They are not even close to fitting any part of his bottom or legs (and I know these have to be shortened with webbing).

So please...if you have a child playing U7s cricket, where on earth do you buy their stuff from!! The 'official' club kit people have a 7-8 as smallest and this is massive! They appear to be quite strict on cricket whites only...and I am now disparing.

I have wasted too much time already surfing online suppliers to find the same kit. And even M&S don't start their cricket whites til age 10 just now...

Please help me!

x

I would query this at the first coaching session, and definitely don't spend cash on whites beforehand. I coach under 8s and under at a large and high standard club and we don't insist on whites for training for any of our U10s, they only need whites when they start playing in league matches which is U8 at the very earliest. Insisting on whites for training is an expense and also a hassle especially in terms of grass stains etc. The only thing I insist on at that age is suitable footwear which effectively means trainers and no flying loose shoelaces. The ECB don't insist on anything at that age either, even at the older end of children's cricket it's about protection not whites.

Honestly such a stipulation would ring slight alarm bells with me in terms of how they approach children's cricket. It's about skills, fun, exercise and giving them a love of sport at that age, not about mini Don Bradmans. Insisting on whites for such tinies smacks of focussing on the wrong things at the wrong age iyswim. Good clubs should be making cricket accessible to all and offering taster sessions, especially to such small ones, not expecting you to lay out on whites before the middle of April.

Whites for training sounds ridiculous. I've seen the odd U15s at matches not even wearing whites.

I wouldn't buy anything just yet, turn up to the first session and see how the land lies. It might be one of those thing they say but don't actually enforce.

Surely the CC should be able to recommend a supplier? All parents must be faced with the same problem.... My son played cricket but didn't start till he was 11 so I never had the same issues. good luck OP! 👍😀

Totally agree with your post rock and roll nerd! Training in whites in April crazy they must have shares in Vanish!. Surely it's about inclusion at that age . If our turned away kids at that age without whites we wouldn't have any players . Shocking

Sports direct but you will need to take them up as they don't come in leg length also yes to buying vanish! It is very unusual to expect whites for training as it is a match convention thought up by someone who didn't do any washing

My DH plays cricket every Sunday in the summer...you will spend your life getting muck and grass out of bloody white effing clothes. haha

DS plays or trains every day except Monday in the summer
I have shares in vanish, and a chest of drawers full of cricket clothing.

Iborolass - sorry ridiculously late in responding. Only reason DS played hard ball is because he joined a club whose youngest team was U11. U11 is the youngest hardball age group unless they play district cricket and then it's U9s.

Our colts manager emailed out last week and asked if we could not put them in whites for training and to save them for matches.

I had sports direct whites at first and they are perfectly fine for beginners.