Cricket advice please

[QueenofLouisiana]

DS has been playing cricket for a month or so and would like to carry on next season. DH and I know nothing about the sport really.

I’d like to buy DS some bits and pieces in the end of season sales, so what should I look for? Where do I start? He’s got the abdo guard and pants, but has been borrowing other stuff from the club.

This will very much be a second sport- his main sport is expensive and time consuming so I’m not desperate to spend a fortune! (Main sport has cost about £300 this month alone!)

Thanks for any advice.

I would ask at the club.
When my dd played, the club had invested in (and I think some families had donated more as their dc outgrew things) enough helmets, pads, bats, and so forth for everyone to be able to use club equipment. There really was no need to spend £££ (especially as is his 2nd sport - and it sounds like the first one is an incredibly expensive one ).

If you still want to buy, then ask at the club what will be most useful. They will guide you. They might even have either a 2nd hand equipment sale, or might have an arrangement with a club or shop or company to get you a discount. Or they might just recommend (or suggest you do't go to) a particular shop or internet provider.

Personally, I would get a helmet (- important it fits and you don't know if borrowed ones have had a knock that makes them less effective) and batting gloves and inners (my son used to come home really sweaty and I would have hated anyone else to have put their hands in his gloves so it must work both ways). Most boys will have their own bat but I would think that he should play for a while to see how good a bat and what weight of bat would suit him.

gloves, helmet, pads and bat. A few balls of the appropriate speed/hardness are always good too.

As well as gloves, bat, helmet and pads you could have a look at a cricket bag for him. At our club the boys 'half and half' between the wheeled ones and the 'backpack' style. Both are enormous!