A Thread on ~ Evolution of Cricket Helmets ~

The first testicular guard (Box) was used in cricket in 1874 and the first cricket helmet was used in 1974.

It nearly took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important. Lmao.

This quote was surely written by a woman! (No offense to the ladies here)

There are recorded instances of cricketers using scarves and padded caps to protect themselves throughout cricket history. Patsy Hendren was one of the first to use a self-designed protective hat in the 1930s.

The Lord’s crowd skipped a collective beat when they saw him walk out. It was not something they have seen before. He was wearing a cap, and yet it was not a cap. It was not anything remotely similar to what they had seen on a cricket field.

The “helmet” was designed by his wife Minnie. Hendren, as quoted by Geoffrey Boycott in The Best XI, confessed that “he needed protection after being struck on the head two years earlier by a new-fashioned short-pitched bouncer.”

Helmets were not in common use until the 1970s. The first helmets were seen in World Series Cricket, with Dennis Amiss being the first player to consistently wear a helmet which was a customised motorcycle helmet.

Mike Brearley was another player who wore his own design. Graham Yallop of Australia was the first to wear a protective helmet to a test match on 17 March 1978, when playing against West Indies at Bridgetown.

Later Dennis Amiss of England popularised it in Test cricket. Helmets began to be widely worn thereafter.

Helmets, in fact, came into fashion in international cricket only in the 1980s. Before that, batting icons like Sir Donald Bradman, George Headley, Herbert Sutcliffe, Wally Hammod, Sir Garfield Sobers and hundreds of other batsmen never wore protective headgear.

The last batsmen at the highest (Test match) level to never wear a helmet throughout his career was Viv Richards, who retired from the international game in 1991. Richards never really needed a helmet. With him at the crease, it was the bowler who was always on the defensive.

'The helmet is one of the greatest assets that a cricketer can have,' said the Australian opening batsman Mathew Hayden once.

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