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HEAVY
WOOLLEN DISTRICT JUNIOR CRICKET LEAGUE
HELMET
GUIDANCE
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The
guidance issued by the ECB, which allowed parents or guardians to give
their consent to allow a young player not to wear a helmet, has been
discontinued from March 2009.
Forthwith parental consent MUST NOT be accepted and helmets with a
fitted face grille shall always be worn when batting against a hard
cricket ball in matches and in practice sessions. The spacing left
between the grille and the helmet visor shall be adjusted and secured to
ensure a match ball, or practice ball, will not pass through it.
Adults in charge of young players, and indeed parents, have a “duty of
care” to ensure these requirements are carried out. Helmets are widely
available and are covered by a British Standard (BS7928: 1998)
Young wicket keepers, when standing up to the stumps, shall either wear
a helmet together with fitted face grille, (of the design and
application described for use by young batsmen), or wear a grilled face
protector, provided the latter is covered by a new British Standard
(BS7928-2: 2009). See illustration shown below.
Face
protectors are, at the time of publication, a new innovation.
It is anticipated that this type of face protection will become
available at sports outlets in our area soon, so as to enable use during
the 2010 season under the terms and conditions set out.
It follows that the wearing of “Face Masks “ and other “face
protectors”, which fail to meet the BS7928-2: 2009 standard, shall not
be allowed when standing up to the stumps facing a hard ball in matches
and in practice sessions. The League Management, or any officer of the
league, shall incur no liability arising from the failure of any club to
implement the requirements outlined above
Any
young player in the Under 16 to Under 18 age groups shall wear a helmet,
with a fitted face grille, when fielding within 6 yards (5.5 metres) of
the batsman “on strike”, except behind the wicket on the off
side.Players should be allowed to wear cricket helmets whenever they are
fielding in a position where they feel at risk
Male
gender players, who have not reached the age of 18, must wear an
abdominal protector (box) whenever a helmet or face protector is being
worn
NOTE:-
In order to be legally sold within the European Union cricket helmets
and face protectors must carry a CE mark.
A kite mark is the British Standards Institution Certification mark. In
order to achieve it the manufacturer/company has to have the product
successfully tested to a given standard, which is then given an identity
reference number as shown above. It is in the best interests of
parents/guardians to ensure young persons in their care use helmets and
face protectors that conform to the standards referred to in this
Appendix.
A young player, in the context of the above requirements, is a person
who has not reached his/ her 18th birthday.
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