A cricket cap is a type of soft cap, often made from felt. It is a traditional form of headwear for players of the game of cricket, regardless of age or gender. It is usually a tight-fitting skullcap, usually made of six or eight sections, with a small crescent-shaped brim. The points downwards over the brow to provide shade for the eyes.
It is often, but not always, elasticised at the rear to hold it in place upon the wearer’s head. Sometimes, rather than tight-fitting, the cricket cap comes in a baggy variety, that is always keep in place by elastic.
The style of cap is also often use as official headwear as part of school uniforms for boys. It is use from private schools, particularly in the United Kingdom .It throughout the Commonwealth of Nations
Although scottish hat is common in the modern period. The cricket cap use to a fashionable form of headwear for people who were casually dress.
Cricket caps are usually,
But not always multi-coloure in the colours of the cricket club. The school for which the cap is design to represent. Sometimes they are particularly elaborately pattern with different sections in different colours, or different coloured rings or hoops around them. At international level, the cap is traditionally made from a single colour.
However, in recent years in particular, many cricket teams, particularly for limited overs cricket have opted to wear baseball caps. rather than traditional cricket caps, but the style is still quite popular for first-class cricket teams, as well as Test cricket sides .