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There is a lovely joke that goes like this …

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

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

Surely written by a woman!

The cricket helmet was designed to stop serious injury occuring due to being hit on the head by the cricket ball.

The cricket helmet originally evolved as batsmen sought protection from being hit on the head by short fast pitched bowling.

As the game embraced the wider acceptance of helmets by batters, they began to be used as protection by close in fielders and wicketkeepers.

Injuries can still occur for batsmen whilst wearing helmets, cuts and fractures occur at the the highest level of the game when genuinely quick bowlers are operating.

The History of the Cricket Helmet

The cricket helmet has been slow to be embraced by cricket as a form of protection, amazingly so, bearing in mind that fast bowlers bowl at speeds upward of 90 miles per hour, 150 kph.

The game which has historically cherished its traditionalism and idiosyncracies finally made the common sense breakthrough in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s with the broader acceptance of helmets worn by batsmen.

They have though, been worn by cricketers going back to the 1930’s , Patsy Hendren the England cricketer wore a homemade helmet with three peaks to protect himself whilst playing against the West Indies.

They have evolved from these early contraptions, players exploring different designs and made makeshift skull caps, Mike Brearley and Sunil Gavaskar were two who spring to mind.

You can see the evolution of the helmet in these photo’s, firstly of Sunil Gavaskar with his Skull Cap and then Dennis Amiss with his motorcycle style helmet.