Cricket nets are practice nets used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their techniques. They consist of a cricket pitch (natural or artificial) surrounded along its lengths and behind the batsman by netting. The bowling end is left open. Cricket batsman A batsman in the sport of cricket is a player whose speciality in the game is batting. ... Darren Gough bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. ... A cricket pitch is the central strip of the playing area between the wickets. ...
The nets serve to stop the ball travelling across a field, ideal for practises and warm-ups, and also save the need for a wicket-keeper should the batsman miss the ball.
A net, in its primary meaning, comprises fibers woven in a grid-like structure, as in fishing nets, butterfly nets, cricketnets, or nets used in sporting goals in games such as soccer, basketball and ice hockey.
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Cricket mats are 1.8m wide and priced per linear metre (we recommend 13.7m/15yds length or a minimum of 12m/13yds).
Cricketnet dividing system comprising 2 heavy duty galvanised steel 76mm square uprights, one with a hook and one with a winch system, a 5mm wire cable, net and net hooks for running along the wire cable.
Cricket screen with a heavy duty galvanised steel frame and 175mm x 22mm softwood boarding painted in a matt white finish.