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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Slazenger => Topic started by: tim2000s on July 11, 2011, 08:33:55 PM

Title: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: tim2000s on July 11, 2011, 08:33:55 PM

Picked both of these up off ebay (cheaply) recently, and both have relatively recent (last ten years) stickers from Slazenger, but neither of them is the V12 or V1200 that I remember. They are both Kashmir toy bats, covered in binding, but can anyone shed any light as to the reasons why they exist and indeed, where the come from? I don't remember seeing them in any shops locally in the last ten years!

V12

(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr293/tim2000s/IMG_0637.jpg)

(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr293/tim2000s/IMG_0638.jpg)

V1200

(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr293/tim2000s/IMG_0635-1.jpg)

(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr293/tim2000s/IMG_0636.jpg)

Side by side

(http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr293/tim2000s/IMG_0639.jpg)

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: Perkins17 on July 11, 2011, 08:39:48 PM

We had a load of the V12 at school which i think that is why they where made and the V1200 was a kids version of the mens bats

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: Nickauger on July 11, 2011, 08:40:31 PM

I definitely remember the V1200 panther. I think that they came from Sports Direct or JJB and were about £25 if I remember rightly. Possibly when I was 13/14, so 2001 perhaps?

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: tim2000s on July 11, 2011, 08:58:51 PM

Interesting. Both are full size SH bats.

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: alexrickyponting on July 11, 2011, 09:00:04 PM

I remember V1200 from about 2001 ish

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: Liam-SCCC on July 11, 2011, 09:06:50 PM

The v1200 was around when I was a kid. Plenty had them at the club

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: tim2000s on July 11, 2011, 09:23:16 PM

A proper v1200 looks like a stretched one of these: http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=11959.msg198528#msg198528

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: alexrickyponting on July 11, 2011, 09:29:19 PM

I THINK ramps or butcher used the V1200 at one point("non proper version")

Title: Re: What are these? V12 and V1200, but not as I know them!
Post by: SempreSami on July 13, 2011, 11:51:41 PM

Indeed Ramps did use a bat with V1200 graphics, here he is with one during the tour of India in 2001.

(http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/DB/122001/032524.jpg)