The Heega Fitting Room
Give us what you have measured and we will tell you what fits. Where we cannot work a size out from what you have given us, we will say so and tell you which measurement to take — a question is more use to you than a guess.
Fill in what you have
Nothing here is required. Height alone gives you a bat size. A foot length alone gives you a shoe size. The rest we will ask for.
Five answers, and we will not fake any of them
Move the slider and the answer moves with it. This is what the fitting room returns before you have given it anything else — notice how much of it is a question. That is the design, not a gap.
Drag it, or use the arrow keys. With JavaScript off, the form below does the same job.
The verdict
Size 6 — but you are at the top of it
At 5'4" you are on the last inch of this band. If you are still growing, a Harrow is a defensible step — but only if you can pick the heavier bat up cleanly. One size up, never two, and weight decides it: a lighter bat in the right size beats a heavier bat in the next one.
Size 6 covers 5'3" – 5'4" · next step Harrow at 5'5"
Bat
Size 6At 5 ft 4 in, 5'3" – 5'4" is your band, so your bat size is Size 6.
Height decides the size; willow, grade, weight and pickup decide which bat. The Bat Advisor takes it from here.
Listed on the site
Batting pads
We need a measurementYour kneecap-to-instep measurement in inches
Heega's own kneecap-to-instep lengths for Youth and Mens are being measured in the workshop, so we are not going to put a number against them yet. Send us the measurement and we size the pair for you the same day.
How to take it: Stand with the leg slightly bent, as it sits in your stance — not locked straight. Measure from the centre of the kneecap straight down to the instep, the top of the foot where the tongue of the shoe sits. The bend matters: a pad is worn in the stance, and a locked-straight leg gives a longer number and the next size up.
Between two sizes: Take the smaller size. The knee roll has to sit on the kneecap; a pad a size too long rests on the instep and pushes the roll above the knee, leaving the joint it is there to protect uncovered. We make two pad sizes rather than six, so a step is a big one and it is better taken downwards.
Batting gloves
We need a measurementYour palm circumference in millimetres, or your hand length
We will not work this out from your height. No published standard maps a player's height to this measurement, and a guess dressed up as a size is worse than a question. Heega's own Boy, Youth and Mens bands are being measured; send us either number and we size the pair.
How to take it: 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.
Helmet
We need a measurementYour head circumference in centimetres
We will not work this out from your height. No published standard maps a player's height to this measurement, and a guess dressed up as a size is worse than a question. And a helmet is the one item we will not size from a chart alone: it has to be tried on.
How to take it: Take a tape around the head at its widest point — about a centimetre above the eyebrows and above the ears — and keep it level all the way round.
Between two sizes: Take the larger size and bring it down with the internal adjuster. A helmet that grips at the temples will not be worn — and a helmet that is not worn protects nobody.
Cricket shoes
We need a measurementYour foot length in millimetres
We will not work this out from your height. No published standard maps a player's height to this measurement, and a guess dressed up as a size is worse than a question.
How to take it: Stand with the heel against a wall, weight on the foot, and measure to the tip of the longest toe — which is not always the big toe. Measure both feet and use the larger.
Between two sizes: Take the larger size. Measure late in the day, when the foot is at its biggest.
| Bat size | Player height | Overall |
|---|---|---|
| Size 1 | under 4'3" | 25.5 in |
| Size 2 | 4'3" – 4'5" | 27.5 in |
| Size 3 | 4'6" – 4'8" | 28.5 in |
| Size 4 | 4'9" – 4'11" | 29.5 in |
| Size 5 | 5'0" – 5'2" | 30.5 in |
| Size 6You | 5'3" – 5'4" | 31.5 in |
| Harrow | 5'5" – 5'8" | 32.75 in |
| Short Handle (SH) | 5'9" – 6'0" | 33.5 in |
| Long Handle (LH) | 6'1" and above | 34.25 in |
Why we refuse to guess the other four
No published standard maps a player's height to a hand girth, a head circumference or a foot length. Two players of the same height routinely take different gloves. A tool that answered anyway would give you a size that looked measured and was not — and the whole reason this guide is worth reading is that the numbers on it are real. So it asks.
Tell us the batting hand too
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 whole ladder, written out
These sentences are on this page whether or not anybody uses the form above, because a tool cannot be read and a sentence can.
Height to bat size
- 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.
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.
Foot length to cricket shoe size
- A foot measuring 9.88 in to 10.12 in (251 mm to 257 mm) takes Heega UK 7. UK 7 is US 8 and EU 40.5.
- A foot measuring 10.16 in to 10.35 in (258 mm to 263 mm) takes Heega UK 8. UK 8 is US 9 and EU 42.
- A foot measuring 10.39 in to 10.63 in (264 mm to 270 mm) takes Heega UK 9. UK 9 is US 10 and EU 43.
- A foot measuring 10.67 in to 10.87 in (271 mm to 276 mm) takes Heega UK 10. UK 10 is US 11 and EU 44.5.
- A foot measuring 10.91 in to 11.1 in (277 mm to 282 mm) takes Heega UK 11. UK 11 is US 12 and EU 46.
Between two sizes
- 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.
Shoes off, heels to the wall
Heega makes the full range. Sizes we do not currently list on the site are available to order — ask us and we build them.