Player cap

[Lokomotiv]

Caps like Cricket players are normally called "Baseball cap", including regions in which there is almost no Baseball like Britain. Could you tell me why? Before the birth of Baseball, was there no player cap in Cricket?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

A quick wiki search tells me that the modern day Baseball cap first became popular around 1900. The Baggy Green that the Aussies wear was around just before then.

But to answer your question, I guess its a matter of taste and the Baseball cap has become really popular and is comfortable to wear. I personally think that the Baggy Green looks far better than the Baseball cap.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

A Cricket Cap

 

[Daemon]

 

[Agent Nationaux]

 

[Agent Nationaux]

 

[BeeGee]

Caps like Cricket players are normally called "Baseball cap"

Cricket players are not normally called "Baseball cap". Unless you're talking about the Hokitika Irregulars 2nd XI player, Baz Bill Capp.

 

[Red]

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Caps like Cricket players are normally called "Baseball cap", including regions in which there is almost no Baseball like Britain. Could you tell me why? Before the birth of Baseball, was there no player cap in Cricket?

Cricket caps traditionally (and still do) look like…

The one day team now wears something more like a baseball cap, but this is relatively recent…

No one calls a cricket cap a "baseball cap" though. Maybe a "baseball style cap". But the traditional type of cricket cap is a skull type cap, like the top pic.

The origins of the cricket cap are hard to discern, however prints showing the game being played in the eighteenth century, already depict players wearing a variety similar versions of the traditional cricket cap.

Cricket cap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Another winning thread, this'un.

 

[fredfertang]

I thought it was going to be about IPL wages

 

[uvelocity]

i eagerly await the thread about cricket cups

 

[Adders]

i eagerly await the thread about cricket cups

Lets make it about these ones.......

 

[uvelocity]

oh yes

 

[Lokomotiv]

There is a Muslim player in Scotland's Women team. She wears Muslim scarf. I think that there must be the rule that colour of Muslim scarf should be same as other players' cap.

 

[Red]

There is a Muslim player in Scotland's Women team. She wears Muslim scarf. I think that there must be the rule that colour of Muslim scarf should be same as other players' cap.

I don't. Because it's not important at all that cricketers from opposing teams be discernible from each other...