Cricket Batting Glove Size Guide
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.
Take the measurement first
Palm circumference
From across the back of the hand to back to the start, around the palm, in millimetres.
Open the hand flat. Take a tape around the widest part of the palm — across the knuckles, with the thumb left outside the loop. Snug, not tight.
Between two sizes: Take the larger size. A glove that pinches the palm stops you feeling the bat.
Wrist to fingertip
From the wrist crease to the tip of the middle finger, in millimetres.
Hold the hand flat with the fingers together. Measure from the crease at the wrist to the tip of the middle finger.
Between two sizes: Take the larger size, and check the finger protection still lines up with the knuckles.
Boy, Youth and Mens
| Glove size | On the site |
|---|---|
| Boy | Listed on the site |
| Youth | Listed on the site |
| Mens | Listed on the site |
Why there are no millimetres against our sizes yet
Our own bands for Boy, Youth and Mens are being measured. There is a tempting shortcut here — four other makers' charts roughly agree, and averaging them would produce three plausible-looking ranges — and the moment we did that, this page would be quoting other people's gloves. Send us a palm circumference or a hand length in millimetres and we will size the pair from your number.
Heega makes the full range. Sizes we do not currently list on the site are available to order — ask us and we build them.
Between two sizesGloves go up — and pads go down, which is the oppositeBatting and keeping gloves: take the larger size.
The rule, and why it is the opposite of the pad rule
- 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.
- Batting pads: take the smaller size. The knee roll has to sit on the kneecap, and a pad a size too long lifts it above the knee. A glove fails by being tight; a pad fails by being long. That is the whole of the difference.
Gloves are handed by the batting hand
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.
The finger protection is built around the top hand — the left for a right-hand batter, the right for a left-hander — because that is the hand the ball finds on the handle.
For comparison onlyA published chart, and the hole in itKookaburra UK published size guide, transcribed 27 Sep 2026 — cross-check only, not Heega figures
| Their size | Palm circumference | Hand length |
|---|---|---|
| Extra Small Junior (6.5a) | 158.5–171.5 mm | 155–163 mm |
| Small Junior (7a) | 171.5–184.5 mm | 163–171 mm |
| Junior (7.5a) | 184.5–197 mm | 171–179 mm |
| Youth (8a) | 197–209.5 mm | 179–187 mm |
| Small Adult (8.5a) | 209.5–222.5 mm | 187–195 mm |
| Adult (9a) | 222.5–235 mm | 195–203 mm |
| Oversize Adult (10a) | 247.5–260.5 mm | 211–219 mm |
Their table has a hole in it: Adult ends at 235 mm and Oversize Adult begins at 247.5 mm, so a 240 mm palm matches nothing.
These are not Heega sizes. They are here for one reason: a palm of 240 mm matches no row in that chart at all, because their Adult stops at 235 mm and their next size starts at 247.5 mm. When our bands are published they will run end to end, so every measurement has exactly one answer.
The trade cannot agree on how to measure a glove
One brand sizes on palm circumference, four other published sources on hand length. We publish both, so this page works whichever number you arrive with.
Why the trade is split, and what that costs a customer
One major brand's UK size guide sizes gloves on palm circumference. Four other published sources — including two of the biggest UK retailers — size them on hand length, wrist crease to the tip of the middle finger. Those are different quantities, and there is no conversion between them that works for every hand.
So if you already know a number from another brand, you can normally only use that brand's chart. We publish both, which means this page works whichever number you arrive with — and it means when you tell us one, we do not have to ask you to measure again.
What people ask about this size
How do I measure my hand for cricket batting gloves?
Take two numbers. Palm circumference: open the hand flat and run a tape around the widest part of the palm, across the knuckles, with the thumb left outside the loop. Hand length: with the fingers together, measure from the crease at the wrist to the tip of the middle finger. Both in millimetres.
Why does Heega publish two glove measurements?
Because the trade is split and a customer cannot carry one number to the other chart. Kookaburra's UK guide sizes gloves on palm circumference; Gray-Nicolls, Keeley and SM Cricket all size on hand length. Publishing both means this page works whichever number you already have from another brand, and it costs us one extra column.
If I am between two batting glove sizes, do I go up or down?
Go up. A tight glove kills the grip — the hand cramps, the fingers cannot wrap the handle and you stop feeling the bat. A glove slightly large still plays the shot; a glove slightly small stops you playing it.
What batting glove sizes does Heega make?
Heega makes batting gloves in three sizes, Boy, Youth and Mens. The millimetre bands for the three are being measured and are not published here yet — send us a palm circumference or a hand length and we size the pair.