Cricket bat pr0n

[Rabish Binney]

Oh yeah thats a classic.

Had a fairly big crack (2-3 cms) at the bottom of it - nothing that the fibreglass tape couldn't fix.

I had to put a new handle in it about 25 years ago.....got the shits up one day when I got out and banged it too hard on the ground in my disgust at getting out to a pie chucker (as I suspect we have all done in our days)......

It needed a new handle anyway

 

[Rabish Binney]

One of my first bats was a GN double scoop (the one that had 2 skinny scoops + another 2 smaller ones at the bottom).

Mum bought it for me without telling me which was a big mistake. The bat was white; it was made in India (Kashmir willow); was a non-oil bat (had the polyester (?) covering) and it was an absolute piece of shite. Honestly, a piece of timber from the hardware store would have been better.

To make things worse, mum wrote my name on it (on the back) in black texta (which wouldn't come off)...

My mates called it the great white hope.

I was embarrassed to use it.

 

[Rabish Binney]

The sad demise of Slazenger | The Cricketer

The sad demise of Slazenger | The Cricketer, cricket news, cricket bats, Huw Turbervill

www.thecricketer.com

Interesting article (from a couple of years back) about Slazenger bats and their decline in popularity

Never used one but reckon they looked pretty good with their stickers etc.

 

[Woody15]

 

[nobbyiscool]

They brought the Scoop back this season! If I'm not too late to sign up to a club for this season, I'm pretty sure this is the bat that I'd be buying for old time's sake.

Speaking of bat pr0n from years gone by, M&H have had some ads pop up on my social feed. They're aren't even in the Grag Chappell catalogue, but damn they're still sexy bats. Sadly the pronounced oval handle was never really for me.

 

[tnott83]

Pumas and screaming cat by Julian Millichamp


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Do you have these still?

 

[Plugger35]

Duncan Fearnley passed away recently.

Duncan Fearnley, bat-maker and Worcestershire legend, dies aged 83

Craftsman and cricketer produced some of the most popular bats of the 1970s and 1980s

www.espncricinfo.com

Duncan Fearnley bats were all the rage back in the 80s with some of the greats back then like Botham, Border and Viv Richards using them.

I never owned one myself, they were too far out of my price range as a young cricketer but they were a very highly regarded piece of willow.

 

[Lebbo73]

I’ve never hit so many sixes. Down from $900, I paid $490 for this Tazz Original grade one English willow.