Your first bat?

[Stevi_Tigers]

first proper brand new bat i had was a gm went well made good runs with it before breaking it at the nets. then moved on too punters kookaburra and kp's woodworm bat

 

[CURVE]

My first cricket bat was a Symonds similiar to this one.

Minus the signatures, of course.

 

[Dujon11]

1st. Slazenger v800. Absolute beauty.
2nd. That green backed kookaburra punter used.
3rd. Puma vendetta. Beast of a bat but snapped it
4th. Screaming cat. Best bat I've ever had.

Never heard a bad word about them. Does the old fella still make them?

 

[Natho]

Never heard a bad word about them. Does the old fella still make them?

I heard he got sick and stopped. But i think he may be making them once again. Anybody else know??

 

[NM_Mitchell]

A Fisher, of some description. I can't recall which model exactly.

Most people will of course have a blank expression and probably wonder what the hell a Fisher is, but cricket disciples in the inner west of Melbourne may well be familiar; it was (and I think still is) a small independent bat maker based in West Footscray, on Williamstown Road. Father took me there to get that bat when I was 10 I reckon.

A beautiful piece of wood.

Sadly shutting up shop now, too. Apparently can't keep competing with all the imported cricket bats from GM, Kookaburra, GN, etc.

Lucky for me I went and picked one up last season. Great stick.

 

[footyfan1978]

Don't give two hoots. Some Grey Nicholls Scoop bullshit from memory. Batting was of secondary interest to me. Knocking over wannabe next Greg Chappell's or Viv Richards bowling turned me on so much more. Batting I enjoyed of course but loved bowling so much more. The better the batsmen the more fun of the challenge to knock them over. Loved playing cricket. God, 6 hours a day and then drinking and cramps in bed in middle of night from bowling too much and not being fit for it takes a lot out of the weekend. Miss it but also enjoy weekends free up so much more too. The guy in second slip that dropped my hat trick can get stuffed. Ran the stupid batsmen out for walking out of his crease after dropped catch so we had a "team" hat trick instead. Never forgiven the dude to this day.
Shit slip fieldsmen drive you bonkers.

 

[Doss]

Sadly shutting up shop now, too. Apparently can't keep competing with all the imported cricket bats from GM, Kookaburra, GN, etc.

Lucky for me I went and picked one up last season. Great stick.

A rotten shame to hear that.

 

[Vic Johnston]

Two bits of wooden 4 x 2 nailed together by me da, an empty 5 gallon oil drum for a wicket and an old tennis ball!

As youngsters my brother and I played out the back garden every chance we got and all summer long during the school hols....no iPads, mobile phones, Facebook or titter etc etc in them days !!!

 

[Hamez]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...p/news-story/5391b4bd814aa5061fa152324bc23806

I've owned a fisher before, one of the best bats I've had. I still go in every offseason to get my bats refurbished.

 

[Swanny69]

First bat of consequence.. Gray Nicholls GN100 Super Scoop .. raw 5 star willow.. I still remember the smell

 

[FredLeDeux]

My first "real" bats as a kid were a Crockett "Norm O'Neill" autograph and a Stuart Surridge "Neil Harvey" autograph. Dad bought the latter for me after I saw my first Test at the MCG in 1958-59 in which Harvey made a big century, but it was no help at all in my lifelong dream of batting like Mr Harvey - except on those 7 or 8 occasions he went out for a duck.

My first adult bat was a Gunn & Moore "Edgar Mayne" autograph, inherited almost new from my dad. I used it for 20 years or so with only 1 re-handle and 2 blade replacements (by Clive Fairbairn's ABC - Australian Bat Company - out at Ringwood).

 

[damochandler]

My first cricket bat was a plastic cricket bat. I wore a hole in the toe of it. I was given a ss 600 bat that was a hand me down

 

[big_e]

Dennis Lillee is hardly a ringing endorsement for a bat, I remember thinking that at the time.

Aluminium bats the exception, of course.

We had one at primary school. Apparently once they were banned - or Lillee couldn't use it in the test - they just gave them out to schools to get rid of them.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Aluminium bats the exception, of course.

We had one at primary school. Apparently once they were banned - or Lillee couldn't use it in the test - they just gave them out to schools to get rid of them.

They were dreadful to use at practice, the handles were just a crap quality rounded square, and after half a dozen deliveries they were too uncomfortable to hold. The ball flew off them, though.

 

[The King!]

Kookaburra like pontings in the mid 90s

 

[Ok Boomer]

Slazenger v800 and then Kookaburra Kahuna circa 2003/4 because Ponting belted the Indians.

I only have a Puma Velocity laying around now, it gave me approximately 0 runs.

Wish I still had the Slazenger.

 

[PhatBoy]

Is it just me or does the idea of a shoe brand like New Balance or the Nike bats that Kohli used to use seem ridiculous? I look at the bats Root and Smith use and just assume that they're planks because of the branding on them. Like those Wills Kings bats the Pakistanis came out here with in 95-96 - a durry company FFS

 

[pjcrows]

Is it just me or does the idea of a shoe brand like New Balance or the Nike bats that Kohli used to use seem ridiculous? I look at the bats Root and Smith use and just assume that they're planks because of the branding on them. Like those Wills Kings bats the Pakistanis came out here with in 95-96 - a durry company FFS

Purely advertising. Steve Waugh was the first Aussie to go down that path.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Technically, my first cricket bat belonged to my dad. It was a Slazenger bat personally autographed on the back by Stan McCabe. Wish I still had it, the bat would probably be worth something. Dad let me use it a couple of times before I got my first one, it was a Gray Nicholls Ian Chappell autograph.

It's funny how we don't really treasure much when we're younger. A mate of mine was given an English Test cap by his grandmother, and it was personally autographed by her friend Len Hutton. He wore it in matches until he eventually lost it.

 

[PhatBoy]

Purely advertising. Steve Waugh was the first Aussie to go down that path.

Yeah but MRF bats to me -I don't know why - always seemed like proper sticks. Maybe because I had no idea what MRF was for the first couple of years they existed.

 

[footyfan1978]

Technically, my first cricket bat belonged to my dad. It was a Slazenger bat personally autographed on the back by Stan McCabe. Wish I still had it, the bat would probably be worth something. Dad let me use it a couple of times before I got my first one, it was a Gray Nicholls Ian Chappell autograph.

It's funny how we don't really treasure much when we're younger. A mate of mine was given an English Test cap by his grandmother, and it was personally autographed by her friend Len Hutton. He wore it in matches until he eventually lost it.

oh my god. Stan McCabe. That is legendary bat you must have had to have his autograph.
That would have been a serious treasure. That reminds me got copies of letters between Don Bradman and his professor mate in England somewhere when discuss why cricket balls could reverse swing. I treasure that stuff like gold.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

oh my god. Stan McCabe. That is legendary bat you must have had to have his autograph.
That would have been a serious treasure. That reminds me got copies of letters between Don Bradman and his professor mate in England somewhere when discuss why cricket balls could reverse swing. I treasure that stuff like gold.

Yes, if I knew what I know now I would have treasured it, but to a lad learning to play cricket, it was a bat to be used to score runs. AND .... I'd really like to know about Bradman's thoughts on Reverse swing. It you could get a photocopy or scan it, I'd love to read it.

 

[footyfan1978]

I'd really like to know about Bradman's thoughts on Reverse swing. It you could get a photocopy or scan it, I'd love to read it.

I will have to go through some boxes in garage storage and find where it is but intend to get in there sometime in next week or two. If I find it then I may have to then work out how much needs scanning or whatever. From memory it is not all of reverse swing. I not looked at them for years. In fact not even sure if they are original copies although gut feeling is they probably are.

 

[Wilso24]

Mine was a Mark Waugh v100 circa 2001, first English willow was a Martyn Diablo

Scored millions with it before it broke

On SM-G930F using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Loved this bat. [emoji173]