Glove Care & Inner Management

The maintenance routine for keeping gloves — replacing inners between innings, taping fingers against jamming, drying gloves between sessions.

Batting helmets became common after Dennis Amiss and Graham Yallop wore them in 1977–78; British Standard BS7928:2013 is today's certification benchmark.

Skipping inners after lunch — sweat compresses the foam and lifts impact force to the joints.

Long-term joint damage from sustained bare-fingered keeping; tape and inners are non-negotiable.