Tell me suppen Sickko. . .

[Tilla]

and we actually had to bat against some fast bowlers.. man all ah bruk stumps..

And you do not think it would make sense to wear protective headgear against some of those bowlers? Why take unnecessary risk?

[Muadib]

ask Viv Richards...

[Tilla]

I am not talking about Viv. I am speaking of less able players than Viv who run the risk of suffering serious injury because of taking unnecessary risk. Viv was exceptional, so too were Haynes, Greenidge, Rowe etc, etc. Mi nah talk dem man deh.

[Muadib]

gotta play the odds.. not that many high school pace bowlers that don't give you enough time to negotiate... yuh gwine buy a helmet sake ah one or 2 bowlah dat yuh may or may not face ?

Unless yuh juss reflexes like molasses or yuh fraidy fraidy...

Even if a bwoy quick. yuh ah guh give him the satisfaction of wearing a helmet and him a bwoy not even 19 yet ?

Yuh mad !

[Tilla]

OK, so it is an ego thing for you over safety. I got you...

[Muadib]

Psychological...

Cricket full ah mind games...

[Tilla]

As I said, some schools don't have the quality pace bowlers like some. Some schools (like Campion) don't make it to national finals to face the best of the crop of young pace bowlers. Again, I remind you, Jerome Taylor left high school and walked into Jamaica and West Indies teams. That should tell you something. Courtney Walsh did it before too so I think you get my drift.

It should be safety over ego. I bet you would not allow your young teenage son to go face a Jerome Taylor without helmet?

[Muadib]

Yuh come again wid yuh ignorance..

Yuh nuh haffi reach finals fi face young pace bowlah.. your cute attempts to cast aspersions on 'some schools' are misplaced in this argument..

Start over and try to be relevant...

[Rudi]

A bit touchy no Ben? Let's all agree that Campion is a good school. Now canyou deal with the argument at hand.

[Farmah]

Tilla has a point there Maudib. Some high school pace bowlers are very fast. When Holding was at KC he wasn't even the faster paceman on that Sunlight team. Consider also, that Patrick Patterson was super fast even as a high school pacer.

Helmets should be a requirement in high school cricket. Don't they use helmets in high school baseball in the US? I think if cricket were a high school item in the US you would see them using it. It's no psycho or ego issue; it's a matter of safety first!

[Rudi]

He may not have been the fastest but he was the one the batsmen on the team feared the most in practice because him neva played ease-up.

[Farmah]

True and he was the most consistent one in terms of line and length.

[Muadib]

mi deal wid it ahready..is an issue of playing the numbers...

The number of bowlers at schoolboy level that would possibly warrant a helmet is so low as to make this helmet discussion a non-issue..

If one feels particularly concerned that a cricket ball may hit them in the noggin (this can happen even by mistiming a swing at a full toss by a spin bowler) then fork out di money.. get all di equipment fi dat mattah.. elbow guard, chess guard... cyann afford to get a bruise...

[Tilla]

I won't continue the discussion with Ben. He is in a win-an-argument-at-all-cost modes where he defys common sense. Any well thinking person would agree that in the interest of safety, then helmets should be worn, especially against fast bowlers.

[Muadib]

Win ?

You have stated your opinion...

It goes contrary to practice... wheh yuh want mi fi tell yuh ?

Is how many years school boy a play cricket widout helmet.. what are the casualty results ?