Cricket Pads & Protective Gears

Cricket Batting gears is an essential component of any cricket player's protection against the impact of a cricket ball. The current proposed project of lightweight cricket gear will not only be a substitute for replacement of currently used heavyweight cricket gear but also enhance the performance efficiency of the player like agility of the batsman running between the wickets, better protection from the cricket ball impact, etc. The earlier gears used the different composite foams to make the cricket gears lighter in weight, but the impact resistance against the cricket ball was purely dependent on the thickness of the foam used. Therefore, in order to achieve the higher impact resistance, a higher thickness of the foam is used, which makes the gears thicken, which consequently increases the flexural rigidity of the gear. In the proposed project, cricket gears will be made by using innovative technology like shear-thickening fluids based, para-aramid based composites and different lightweight composites using different fiber combinations etc. which will not only make the cricket gears but also enhance the impact resistance against cricket balls without increasing the thickness of gear, which in consequence, doesn’t hamper the range of movement of players and enhances the performance efficiency.

Novelty of product:

• The developed product is Lighter than existing HDPU-based pad items.
• The developed product is Thinner than existing HDPU-based pads.
• More mobility & flexibility during usage.