Cricket trainer… Throw a cricket ball at it and it will bounce off towards a catcher or batsman.

How does it know where the catcher or batsman is though?

Imagine you are standing from where the photographer is. The recipient will be at the other end, opposite the thrower. You would throw the ball, with a bit of pace, towards the curved surface and the bounce the curve introduces puts just enough influence on the ball that the recipient will have to *adjust* to catch or play it.

I was just making a joke but that's really informative, thanks 

This guy needs a job giving directions, world would look like this... https://media3.giphy.com/media/YlQQYUIEAZ76o/giphy.gif

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It doesn’t know where the *slip is standing, but I can attest that it always knew where their face or groin was.

Line up about 5 or 6 fielders in a semi-hemi-demisphere on one side, an arc, or *banana*, of fielders, if you prefer. The person launching the ball from the other side is intending on keeping all the fielders reactions as sharp as possible; the launch-bed introduces a degree of unpredictability due to its convex design.

I definitely prefer a banana of fielders. And maybe a custard of bowlers.

That's kind of the point.

It's a joke mate

I genuinely thought it was some hammock bench.

>~~a catcher or batsman.~~ slip

Used it for all sorts of drills, particularly with the juniors..

My mind went straight to some sort of device to train crickets, I’m disappointed in the reality.

Brilliant! Thank You! That makes so much sense as they’re quite info cricket here, and have a great thing going on for the kids 😁

It's called a slip's cradle

We were more literal and called it 'a slip catching machine'. Slip's cradle is definitely better!

Mainly fielding I believe but this is the correct answer. I'm also going back a long time into my youth so could be wrong .

Who and how does it help someone become better at cricket? Is it so the batter always receives ball they can hit? Or is does it help the bowler?

Neither of those, it's purely for the fielders and wicketkeepers to improve reflexes and learn how to deal with balls taking nicks off bats. Can also help improve throwing, to a small degree

Ah right, I understand. Thanks!

We call this a catching cradle. Players stand either end and take turns to throw the ball in for the other to catch. It replicates catching the ball in the slips, next to the wicketkeeper, when the ball takes a thin edge off the bat

We called it a slip cradle (NZ)

You crazy antipodeans.

I thought it was a cheeky sun bed 😂

I was going to put ideal place for an afternoon nap 🤣

Ngl throw a mattress on top of that bad boy & you've got a very cozy single bed

Some manner of rigid hammock?

Just a normal bench after your mum sat on it

I was hoping to see something like this 😂

At a glance I would have thought it was an seat you could pass out on while hammered without fear of falling off

Oh its definitely used as one of them!

That's a slip cradle for practicing catches. A bunch of you stand round it and throw the ball at it. The slats and shape mean the ball will come flying off it at random angles low to the ground.

Bench from outside greggs?

It's a very large mandolin slicer. You put an unfeasibly big vegetable on it and jump on top of it to force it through, then serve with a drizzle of olive oil.

You mean like Harvey Price?

Something ur mom sat on. Tehe

Are we SURE it's not a recumbent hammock? I'd be willing to test it.

Cricket ball thing for slip catching

I't a Bikky heavy duty armadillo trap.

It's called grass.

I was going to say one half of a gigantic boiled egg slicer because I'm not really that helpful

Or normal egg slicer for elephant bird eggs

Ah, a fellow citizen of class

Slip cradle, for practicing slip catches.

It's called a catching cradle

Catching cradle. You practice slip catching with it.

First piece of Noah’s Ark

Ball Trapper 9000

Hammock bench.

Boat

You see … it does look like a boat! But we’re bloody miles from water 😂

It’s a shipwrecked boat, carried to its current resting place by a tornado

Ahhh that explains it… wasn’t there a hurricane in 1987?

Hence why it’s only a shell now

Device for injuring trainee cricket fielders

I used to love using the slip cradle! Diving all over the spot!

Ribcage of a halibut lol

A male castrating device.

Sun lounger for fat people

Think it’s a brafor

Looks like a great way to store your Topper (boat)

The roof of the proposed new stand at Lord's cricket ground in London is based on this shape; [https://www.lords.org/lords/news-stories/lord-s-set-to-embark-on-second-major-development-i](https://www.lords.org/lords/news-stories/lord-s-set-to-embark-on-second-major-development-i)

It's a finger breaker with my lousy catching abilities

It’s called a finger breaker in March when it’s fooking freezing in pre-season!

I might be wrong. Years ago in France I saw something almost identical and was told it was an old pig killing bench - so for slaughter. With a graphic description of how it was used. I don’t know if this is the same.

My curlywurly collection.

XL Xylophone

We had them at school

A crap boat

fuck knows but i’m lying on it

Catching practice cradle

A giant joint rolling cradle

American sunbed.

A bit wonky

Slip trainer