Cricket Bats

[Devil Fish]

I bought a new cricket bat yesterday - Gray Nicolls Beast - & was asked by the sales person did I want it corked? What the hell??????

 

[Browney]

Broken in im guessing.....

 

[Power21]

Only thing i can think of is what they do in baseball and hollow it out and fill it with cork?

 

[Devil Fish]

Only thing i can think of is what they do in baseball and hollow it out and fill it with cork?

That's what I was thinking. But isn't that illegal? He did have a smirk on his face when he asked me come to think of it.

 

[Power21]

That's what I was thinking. But isn't that illegal? He did have a smirk on his face when he asked me come to think of it.

Yes i would think it would be illegal, its illegal for the baseballers, dont know how much it would help in cricket though because the ball is heavier i think and you need weight and power to hit the ball well.

 

[Longy413]

The reason corking is illegal in baseball is because it adds power to the bat.

In cricket, if your bat is too heavy, you can have some wood taken out of the back and fill it with cork to make it lighter. At a guess, I reckon that may be what he was talking about. Has nothing to do with power.

 

[year of the roo]

"excuse me, this bat is corked"

"no it's not I just took the cork out, didn't you see?"

"no I mean the bat has reacted with the cork and gone bad"

"yes yes you're right..."

 

[Roonaldo!]

A gray nicholls beast? I thought the beasts were Kookaburras.

 

[PastyPieSausageRoll]

it's a hayden 380 beast at a guess. It is just the 'monster bat' of its range (huge edges etc, like the big kahuna. Only Kooka make 'The Beast"