Cricket Size Guide
We make this gear in Meerut, so the sizes here come off our own bench rather than out of somebody else's chart. Measure once, and this guide tells you what fits — bats, pads, gloves, helmets, shoes, playing kit and caps.
Put in a height. Get the bat size.
It answers in a sentence. Give it a foot length, a palm or a head circumference as well and it sizes the shoe, the glove and the helmet too — and where it has not been given enough, it says which measurement it still needs rather than guessing at it.
Open the full fitting roomTell us one measurement, and we will tell you where we need another
Height gives us your bat size on its own. It does not give us your glove, your helmet or your shoe size, and we are not going to pretend otherwise — those need a palm, a head circumference and a foot length. Asking is the honest answer.
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Bat Size Guide
Player height, against a wall with shoes off
Nine sizes, from size 1 to Long Handle, and for each of them the four measurements that decide whether a bat suits a player: how long it is, how much of that is blade, how much is handle, and what it weighs. Measure a height, find the row, and the bat is on the same line.
Batting Pad Size Guide
Centre of the kneecap to the instep, leg slightly bent
A pad is sized on one span — the centre of the kneecap down to the instep — and it is measured with the leg slightly bent, the way it sits in your stance. That bend is the part the published charts leave out, and it changes the number. Heega makes pads in Youth and Mens.
Batting Glove Size Guide
Palm circumference and wrist to fingertip
Glove sizing is split down the middle across the trade: some brands publish a palm circumference, others a hand length, and a customer cannot carry one number to the other guide. We publish both, so whichever number you already have, this page works.
Helmet Size Guide
Head circumference at the widest point
A helmet is sized on head circumference, and it is the one item in this guide where the tape measure is not the end of it. A helmet has to be tried on.
Shoe Size Guide (UK Sizes)
Foot length, heel to longest toe
Heega shoes are UK sizes. Measure the foot in millimetres and read the size off — the table below gives a range for every size, so a foot length has exactly one answer rather than falling between two rows.
Clothing Size Guide
Chest and waist circumference
Playing kit is sized on two numbers: the chest at its fullest, and the natural waist. Both are taken with the tape level all the way round, which is easier said than done at the back.
Cap and Hat Size Guide
Head circumference at the widest point
Caps and hats take the same measurement as a helmet: head circumference at the widest point. The difference is that a cap only has to sit, not to protect, so the fit is more forgiving.
Player height to bat size
Nine sizes, from size 1 to Long Handle. There is no size 0 and no Small Adult pattern — we do not make either, so size 1 covers everything under 4'3" and Harrow stretches across the band other makers fill with Small Adult. Short Handle starts at 5'9". Every bat's own length, blade, handle, width, edge and weight is on the bat page.
| Bat size | Player height | Height (cm) | On the site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Size 1 | under 4'3" | under 130 cm | Available to order |
| Size 2 | 4'3" – 4'5" | 130 – 136 cm | Available to order |
| Size 3 | 4'6" – 4'8" | 137 – 144 cm | Listed on the siteKashmir willow |
| Size 4 | 4'9" – 4'11" | 145 – 151 cm | Listed on the siteKashmir willow |
| Size 5 | 5'0" – 5'2" | 152 – 159 cm | Listed on the siteKashmir willowEnglish willow |
| Size 6 | 5'3" – 5'4" | 160 – 164 cm | Listed on the siteKashmir willowEnglish willowMongooseScoop |
| Harrow | 5'5" – 5'8" | 165 – 174 cm | Listed on the siteKashmir willowEnglish willowMongooseScoop |
| Short Handle (SH) | 5'9" – 6'0" | 175 – 184 cm | Listed on the siteKashmir willowEnglish willowMongooseScoop |
| Long Handle (LH) | 6'1" and above | 185 cm and above | Listed on the siteKashmir willowEnglish willowMongooseScoop |
Bands are set in whole inches and every inch belongs to exactly one size — no gaps, no overlaps. The centimetre figures are conversions of those inch boundaries; where a measurement lands on a boundary, the inch figure decides. The shelf links beside each size open that shelf already filtered to it, so you land on the bats in your size rather than on the whole range. Where a size has no link we have not listed it yet — ask us and we build it.
Every rung, written out as a sentence
In one sentence each
The same ladder written out, so it can be read and quoted without the table.
- A player under 4 ft 3 in (under 130 cm) takes a Heega Size 1 bat.
- A player 4 ft 3 in to 4 ft 5 in tall (130 cm to 136 cm) takes a Heega Size 2 bat.
- A player 4 ft 6 in to 4 ft 8 in tall (137 cm to 144 cm) takes a Heega Size 3 bat.
- A player 4 ft 9 in to 4 ft 11 in tall (145 cm to 151 cm) takes a Heega Size 4 bat.
- A player 5 ft to 5 ft 2 in tall (152 cm to 159 cm) takes a Heega Size 5 bat.
- A player 5 ft 3 in to 5 ft 4 in tall (160 cm to 164 cm) takes a Heega Size 6 bat.
- A player 5 ft 5 in to 5 ft 8 in tall (165 cm to 174 cm) takes a Heega Harrow bat.
- A player 5 ft 9 in to 6 ft tall (175 cm to 184 cm) takes a Heega Short Handle (SH) bat.
- A player over 6 ft (185 cm and above) takes a Heega Long Handle (LH) bat.
Age, as a way in — and why height is what decides
| Bat size | Age, as a way in | Player height |
|---|---|---|
| Size 1 | 4 – 5 years | under 4'3" |
| Size 2 | 5 – 6 years | 4'3" – 4'5" |
| Size 3 | 6 – 7 years | 4'6" – 4'8" |
| Size 4 | 7 – 8 years | 4'9" – 4'11" |
| Size 5 | 8 – 9 years | 5'0" – 5'2" |
| Size 6 | 9 – 12 years | 5'3" – 5'4" |
Age is only a way in. Two 12-year-olds can be four inches apart, and it is height that decides the size. Where our band deliberately sits higher than the published trade bands — Harrow and above — we give no age at all rather than a misleading one.
Which bat, not just which size
Height answers the size. Willow, grade, weight and pickup answer which bat — and the Bat Advisor already does that, from the same ladder as this page.
Why this chart and not another oneFour promises, and they are testableEvery band continuous, every dimension a range, inches first — and where we have not measured something, nothing stands in for it.
- Every band on these pages is continuous and non-overlapping. Whatever you measure, exactly one size answers to it — no gap where nothing fits, no overlap where two sizes both claim you.
- Every measured dimension is a range, never a single number. A chart that says a size is 254 mm cannot answer a 251 mm foot, which is the point at which most size charts stop being useful.
- Inches lead and millimetres follow, because that is how sizes are read in India.
- Where we have not measured something yet, the figure is simply absent — nothing stands in for it. If a number is on the page, it is real.
The rule that changesBetween two sizes — and why the answer is not the same for every itemBetween two sizes at Heega: take the smaller pad, because the knee roll has to sit on the kneecap; take the larger glove, because a tight glove kills the grip; take the larger helmet and bring it down on the adjuster, and try it on before you play in it.
Pads go down a size and gloves go up. That looks like a contradiction until you look at how each one fails when it is a size out, which is what decides it.
| Item | Between two sizes | Because |
|---|---|---|
| Batting pads | Take the smaller size | The knee roll must sit on the kneecap. A pad a size too long rests on the instep and lifts the roll above the knee, so the one joint the pad exists to protect is the one left bare. |
| Batting and keeping gloves | Take the larger size | A tight glove kills the grip. The hand cramps, the fingers cannot wrap the handle, and you stop feeling the bat — and a glove is no use if the shot it was bought for cannot be played in it. |
| Helmets | Take the larger size and bring it down on the adjuster | A helmet that grips at the temples is taken off after two overs. The adjuster takes up slack; nothing makes a small shell bigger. It must still be tried on. |
| Cricket shoes | Take the larger size | The foot swells through an innings and slides forward on the front foot. A shoe a half-size long costs you nothing; a shoe a half-size short costs you a toenail. |
| Playing kit | Take the larger size | Match shirts and trousers are worn loose, and trousers sit on the hip on a drawcord. A shirt that binds across the shoulders shortens the arc of the shot. |
The short version
- Between two sizes at Heega: take the smaller pad, because the knee roll has to sit on the kneecap; take the larger glove, because a tight glove kills the grip; take the larger helmet and bring it down on the adjuster, and try it on before you play in it.
Tell us the batting hand, not the leg
Tell us the BATTING hand, not the leg. The front-leg pad carries the heavier protection on its outside edge, and which leg is the front leg depends on which hand you bat with — so a right-hand batter orders right-hand pads and right-hand gloves, and we work the leg out from there. Our catalogue records this as Hand on bats and gloves and Leg on pads, and the batting hand is what sets both.
What changes with the hand, and what does not
- Pads and gloves are handed by the BATTING hand, not by the leg or by the hand they go on. Give us the batting hand and we work the rest out.
- Pads are handed. A right-hander's front leg is the left leg, so the heavier protection and the strap side are mirrored for a left-hander — a right-hander's pair worn by a left-hander puts the reinforced side on the wrong leg.
- Gloves are handed. The finger protection is built around the top hand, which is the left hand for a right-hander and the right hand for a left-hander.
- Thigh guards are handed, for the same reason as the pads.
- Every size we make, we make left-handed. A left-hander is not choosing from a smaller range here — it is the same ladder, built the other way round.
- On the bat the pattern is mirrored and the label reads from the striking face.
- Length, blade width and weight do not change. A left-hand bat is not a different size — order the same size in the other hand.
Tell us the hand when you order. Every size we make, we make left-handed.
The legal maximum size of a cricket bat — 38 in long, 4.25 in wide
No bat may exceed these figures, at any level of the game. It is worth knowing before you buy a bat described as oversized, and no size chart we compared against carries it.
The Law's own figures, and the edge it states twice
| Dimension | Maximum |
|---|---|
| Overall length | 38 in (965 mm) |
| Blade width | 4.25 in (108 mm) |
| Blade depth | 2.64 in |
| Edge | 1.56 in, which the Law also gives as 4 cm |
The inch figures are the Law's own. The millimetres in brackets are conversions of them. The edge's 4.0 cm is the Law's own second statement of the same limit, not a conversion — and it is not equal to 1.56 in.
The edge is stated twice, and the two figures are not equal
- The Law states the edge as both 1.56 in and 4.0 cm.
- Those are not equal: 39.62 mm and 40.00 mm.
We print both, exactly as the Law gives them, and convert neither. Picking one would put a misquoted Law on a bat maker's own site.
What is not here yetThe pages we have not finished, and whyThese have no page because they have no figures we have measured. Saying so is more use to you than a table filled in from somebody else's chart, and it is the one thing on this site a competitor cannot copy.
Wicket-keeping gloves
Keeping gloves take the same two hand measurements as batting gloves, on the same page. They get their own page once we have measured our own keeping gloves, which are cut differently and are worn over an inner.
See keeping glovesCricket balls
The Laws of Cricket change on 1 October 2026 and the change replaces the men's, women's and junior weight split with three defined ball sizes. We would rather publish nothing for four days than publish a table that is about to be wrong.
See cricket ballsSocks
Socks follow the foot length in millimetres, the same measurement as the shoes. Which sock sizes we make, and the foot length each covers, is being read off the catalogue.
See socksThigh, arm and abdominal guards
Guards follow the Boy, Youth and Mens scale the gloves use. Per-item measurements are being confirmed — tell us the player's height and the batting hand and we size the set.
See protective guardsMade to orderA size we do not list is not a size we do not make
Heega makes the full range. Sizes we do not currently list on the site are available to order — ask us and we build them.
That is the difference between a maker and a shop. A size we are not listing today is still a size you can have — it is a listing we have not made, not a shelf we cannot fill.