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A Baggy green is a hat of green colour, only given to Australian Test cricketers. It was worn by Sir Donald Bradman and is a symbol of national pride. In recent years, baggy greens have been auctioned for large sums of money.

Modern cricketers sometimes replace their helmets or sun hats with a Baggy green for a traditional, Australian style. The Australian cricket team also often symbolically all wear baggy greens for the first session whilst fielding in a Test match before some switch to wide brimmed white hats, which offer better protection from the hot summer sun.

The Baggy green is not worn as often whilst batting nowadays because of the danger of being hit in the head by fast bowlers. Though some often employ their baggy green while facing spin bowling. Australian cricketers retain the same baggy green throughout their Test careers, and the receipt of a baggy green by a new Test cap is considered to be something of a rite of passage. In recent years, a past player has presented the baggy green to the debutant prior to the start of the match in a short ceremony held on the ground.

The Australian version of the Cricinfo website [1] is known as baggygreen.com.au because of the history associated with the cap. [2]