How competitive is the Cricket Pads niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

15 brands and 34 sellers compete in Cricket Pads on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Cricket Pads products take 35% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 78% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Cricket Pads?

Cricket Pads buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Size-Overall, Durability, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.6%.

What does it cost to enter the Cricket Pads niche?

Cricket Pads sells for £32.03 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, inside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £7.05–£74.08. The average incumbent carries 11 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Cricket Pads

Cricket Pads shows a thin review moat (11 avg reviews), but a failed launch gate (market size, growth, or returns) keeps it on the watch list.

Signals Low Review Barrier Out of Stock

Flapen Score

Worth a look

This niche Category average

Is Cricket Pads profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Cricket Pads is a £9K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (64K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 78% of demand. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Jun. Verdict: Worth a look — 57/100.

Cricket Pads: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved +26.2% over the last 90 days and 0.4% of searches end in a purchase.

£9K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr750

Search volume / yr+26.2%64K

Conversion rate0.4%

Avg price£32.03

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 78% of demand, so 22% of the market is open.

22%

open market share

Brands · sellers15 · 34

Top-5 product click share35%

Open market22%

Avg brand age56 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.2★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 49 products

Top Cricket Pads products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

Kookaburra Cricket Unisexs Pro 250 Thigh Guard Protection White Adult Right Hand 3D29107C

Price: £25.63
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 64
Age: 5y ago

Kookaburra Ghost 6.1 Batting Pads - size Adult White

Price: £38.36
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 11
Age: 1y ago

Kookaburra Ghost 5.1 Batting Pads - size Adult Right Hand White

Price: £48.83
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 2
Age: 1y ago

ND Sports Premium Cricket Batting Pads for Men Lightweight High-Density Foam Protection Durable PU Exterior with Secure Comfort Fit Straps Ideal for Practice & Matches (Mens)

Price: £23.05
Rating: 3.6/5
Reviews: 27
Age: 2mo ago

Kookaburra Ghost 6.1 Batting Pads - size Youths White

Price: £36.75
Rating: 5.0/5
Reviews: 11
Age: 1y ago

Newest

by launch date

FORZA Original Wicket Keeper Pads | Lightweight Cricket Wicketkeeping Pads with Cane & Foam Protection Artificial Leather Facing & Adjustable Straps | Youth & Adult Sizes (Adult)

Price: £24.86
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 2mo ago

ND Sports Premium Cricket Batting Pads for Men Lightweight High-Density Foam Protection Durable PU Exterior with Secure Comfort Fit Straps Ideal for Practice & Matches (Mens)

Price: £23.05
Rating: 3.6/5
Reviews: 27
Age: 2mo ago

Gray-Nicolls Classic Academy Batting Pads 2026 Mens RH

Price: £44.54
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 4mo ago

Kookaburra Kahuna 5.1 Cricket Batting Pads - Adult Right Hand White

Price: £44.16
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 7mo ago

Kookaburra Kahuna 5.1 Cricket Batting Pads - Youth Right Hand White

Price: £44.10
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 7mo ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

Clicks spread well past the top 5 (35% combined) — an open shelf where new products get seen.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)6 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

15 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

35%

Top 20: 79%

Open market

18%

Kookaburra54%
PROSTYLE SPORTS8%
ND Sports7%
Gunn & Moore6%
Heritage4%
Ram Cricket4%

Cricket Pads demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume64KCVR0.4%Products49Brands15Top 5 Brands78%OOS Rate21.1%Rating4.2★Reviews11Avg BSR#27

Peak months: Apr, May, Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.9×

Top Cricket Pads search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

cricket pads27K/yr +32.6%0.5% conv.
cricket pads adult13K/yr +11.5%1.2% conv.
cricket pads junior7K/yr +56.3%0.4% conv.
cricket batting pads8K/yr +10.3%0.3% conv.
junior cricket pads6K/yr +49.3%0.8% conv.
cricket pads youth4K/yr -5.7%1.1% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cricket Pads

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

97% of reviews

Quality-Overall33%

“Decent quality”

Size-Overall17%

“they fit my 13 year old perfectly”

Value For Money13%

“great Value for Money VFM”

Comfort-Overall10%

“Comfortable and does the job”

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%

“Does the job”

What buyers complain about

88% of reviews

Size-Overall63%

“Bag is massive”

Durability25%

“Lasted less than one over though so did the batter”

Cricket Pads return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.6%

Return rate

92%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall

86%

2Quality-Overall

3Advertised Vs Actual Product

4Material Quality

5Thigh Fit

Common Cricket Pads questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Cricket Pads 57/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £9K/yr across 49 tracked products. 1 of 11 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +26.2% over the last 90 days.