The first protective equipment to be brought into cricket were pads to protect the legs, introduced in the mid-19th Century to prevent the rush of broken bones following the move from under-arm ...

box and pads even Richards deigned to wear. Long gone are the cricket steel toe-capped boots (which might as well have taken off a road workman and dipped in white paint) or the sight of a fast ...

"I used to come home after training and he would take my pads and somehow wear them to ... province -- Shaheen dedicated himself to cricket as soon as he could hold a bat. "His commitment to ...

Karachi (AFP) – As a young boy in a family of seven cricket-mad brothers ... "I used to come home after training and he would take my pads and somehow wear them to bed," said elder brother ...