{"id":394543,"date":"2026-01-28T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:50:13","slug":"why-dont-england-cricketers-wear-caps-while-batting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394543\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t England cricketers wear caps while batting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some fans were left wondering why Joe Root opted not to wear a cap while hitting a century in the heat against Sri Lanka&#8217;s spinners in the third one-day international.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is not unusual to see players such as India&#8217;s Virat Kohli batting with a hat on, but Root wore a helmet throughout his innings despite the humidity in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a stark contrast to Sri Lanka&#8217;s Pavan Rathnayake, who opted to don a cap when batting against England&#8217;s spin attack in the run chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wearing a helmet is not compulsory for batters facing slow and medium pace bowlers in international cricket, but it is mandatory for all England players in the various formats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England and Wales Cricket Board&#8217;s (ECB) head protection regulations were brought in to mitigate the chance of players being struck on the head by bowlers, fielders and also themselves with the bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The International Cricket Council (ICC) rules that batters must sport a helmet when facing pace bowlers, but it is optional at other times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">English first-class cricketers have had to wear helmets against all types of bowlers since the 2016 season, but it is not mandatory for adults at a recreational level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some fans were left wondering why Joe Root opted not to wear a cap while hitting a century&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}