Cricket Gear

Clothing

A BATSMAN is allowed to wear hand gloves, shin pads, a helmet. In addition he can also wear a chest guard, elbow guard, wrist band and spiked shoes.

A FIELDER, fielding at a close distance can wear shin pads, chest guard and a helmet but no gloves. A wicket keeper has a large pair of gloves, also allowed to wear internal gloves, shin pad, chest guard.

The PLAYERS wear T-shirts and pyjama like pants and team caps. They are coloured for ODI's and White for tests. Sweaters are also used with the team colours. In Test matches, clothing is white, with the team colour as the neck border.

A WICKET-KEEPER is allowed to wear a helmet, pads and two sets of gloves, an inner and outer. The outer one is almost like a mitt.

Equipment

Cricket bats are made up from either the English or Kashmiri Willow Tree. Aluminium bats are not used. Bats cannot be more than 38 inches (96.5cms) long and 4.25 inches (10.8cm) wide.	The ball is made up of cork and twine and stitched with leather. It is either red (day) or white (day and night). The ball should have a 9 inch (23 cm.) circumference, and should weigh about 163g.	Stumps are cylindrical and are made up of wood. The base is conical and is hammered into the Pitch. The middle stump has a mini camera with a microphone. Stumps are 28 inches (71cm) in length and the three are spread over 9 inches (22.86cm). The bails are 4 inches wide.

Sight Screens

A sight screen is a large flat board (about 10m high x 15m wide). There are 2 sight screens. The sight screens are placed just beyond the boundary, parallel to the wickets.

 The purpose of this is for the screen to contrast the ball coming out of the bowler's hand. This makes viewing the ball easier and concentration better. It also cuts out distraction behind the bowler's arm in the spectator stands, which would hamper the batsman's concentration.

Sight Screens are usually white (when ball is red) or black (when ball is white - D/N game).