Cricket Bags
to Keep Your Kit Safe

Cricket bags are possibly the most important cricket accessory, but often get the least attention. Its no use having the best cricket equipment in the world if you can’t carry it easily and safely.

A good bag makes good use of modern technology but doesn’t have to cost the earth, so here’s a rough guide about what to look for.

Cricket bags live in a harsh environment. They're routinely crammed into car boots, dragged across muddy fields and trampled in crowded changing rooms, as well as being brim full of heavy cricket kit. So, they need to be durable.

Hard wearing 1200 denier polyester fabric with anti-scuff corner protection is a good start. Look for a heavy duty integrated wheel system – cricket kit is heavy, so a wheelie bag is essential.

All zips should be heavy duty and rust proof, and the top and towing handles need to be suitably sturdy. End and side pockets are useful for carrying small items of clothing as well as essentials like bat tape, spare boot studs and stud keys, sun cream, bottled water and practice balls.

A shoe tunnel keeps boots away from other kit, and an external bat sleeve will help to stop your bat being damaged by contact with metal objects like boot studs or a helmet grille. To state the obvious, your bag has to be at least long enough to hold a cricket bat, but short enough to fit in a car boot. A cricket helmet, pads and bat take a lot of space even at junior kit sizes, so its good to plan for expansion.

Its tempting to buy from the wide range of bags available on the web, but its difficult to gauge their capacity without seeing them first.

As a rough guide, a 90cm bag is long enough to hold an adult bat, but if you have a local retailer its still worth checking out what a large bag looks like. In my experience, its good to buy big because you always have more kit than you think!

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