Cricket Nets

Cricket nets are practice nets used by batsmen and bowlers to warm up and/or improve their cricketing techniques. Cricket nets consist of a cricket pitch (natural or artificial) which is enclosed by cricket nets on either side, to the rear and optionally the roof. The bowling end of the net is left open. Cricket nets are the cricket equivalent of baseball's batting cages, though fundamentally different as baseball cages provide complete ball containment, where as cricket nets do not.

Cricket nets serve to stop the ball travelling across a field when the batsman plays a shot - saving time and eliminating the need for fielders. They also negate the need for a wicket keepershould ball travel past the bat. They allow greater intensity of training, specifically when multiple lane cricket nets are used.

There are primarily two types of Cricket nets, indoor and outdoor. Indor Cricket nets are usually are often suspended on a aluminium track way (runners) which are fixed to the ceiling of sports hall or gymnasium. While outdoor nets take shape and form in many different guises, with some nets being home made whilst others are professional manufactured and installed, and this is reflected throughout the world.