Course of Match and Practice: - Warm up and stretch before a day's game. A 10 minute warm up of stretches and jogging is normally enough.
- Maintain the intake of fluids throughout the days play. It's important that adequate supplies of water are available, as the body can lose between 2-3 litres of sweat in an hour in hot conditions.
- Make sure that any injured player receives the correct treatment before being allowed to return to the field.
Fielding: - Never stop the leather ball with legs
- Never try to take the catch with one hand only
- Try to pull the ball onto the Chest
- Check the field of play for any hazards, broken glass etc, and remove if necessary.
- Comfortable fitting cricket shoes should be worn.
- A helmet with a faceguard should be worn by players when keeping wicket
- Make sure a hat, sunglasses and sun block are used in the appropriate conditions.
Bowling: - Bowlers should also warm up before their spell of bowling.
- Restrict the number of over’s a bowler completes in a session. This depends on his physical condition and maturity. Young bowlers should not be overused as it can lead to injury.
Batting: - A helmet with a faceguard should be worn by players when keeping wicket, or when batting, both in match situations and in practice.
- The face guard should be adjusted to make sure the size of the ball being used cannot pass between the peak of the helmet and the face guard.
- A helmet with a face guard should also be worn if fielding in close.
- The proper equipment should be worn while batting. This includes helmet with faceguard, body padding, leg pads, forearm pads, gloves and an abdominal protector (a box).
General: - Always have a first aid kit on hand when a game is in play.
- Once the game is over warm down. The warm down should consist of around 5 minutes of exercise. Slow jogging and movement of all the large muscle groups should take place. There should be gentle stretching of the muscles, especially ones used most during a game.
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Ċ ď Cricket BW, Mar 19, 2010 5:14 AM
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