My son broke two toes playing cricket and is about to start playing again. He is very worried about being hit again and thinks will affect his play. Does anyone have any suggestions on either protection can put on his toes or cricket shoes so he doesn’t worry so much?
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Broken toe protection
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Victor Ian
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Time to invent steel capped cricket shoes for batting.
SillyCowCorner1
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This is all part of the game: toe-crushers.
Burgey
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There used to be some boots which had hard toes, but I think they were the old Puma Lord's, which were bowling boots. FMD they were a great cricket shoe. Genuine leather and provided really good ankle support. I had a pair in the 80s and think they had a hard toe because dragging was a lot more common then. Looked a bit like this:
State of the art back then.
Hi..late here.
If you still can't find a shoe that's acceptable then adapt the shoe yourself. Create something on the external part of the shoe to protect the toes, that enables your son to still walk and run like normal. If you can't do it then find a good shoemaker, they will be able to adapt the shoe to protect the toes better and probably have good ideas for how and what material to use to do this compared to us. You are also guaranteed for the job to be done properly if you use a good shoemaker.
If you still can't find a shoe that's acceptable then adapt the shoe yourself. Create something on the external part of the shoe to protect the toes, that enables your son to still walk and run like normal. If you can't do it then find a good shoemaker, they will be able to adapt the shoe to protect the toes better and probably have good ideas for how and what material to use to do this compared to us. You are also guaranteed for the job to be done properly if you use a good shoemaker.