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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: iand123 on November 10, 2011, 07:57:04 PM
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I thought they wre only doing the grade 2 model? http://www.vks.com/bats/gray_nicolls_bats/GN100_range/gray-nicolls-gn-100-players-cricket-bat.htm (http://www.vks.com/bats/gray_nicolls_bats/GN100_range/gray-nicolls-gn-100-players-cricket-bat.htm)
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weird that in their pic the willow on the face isn't all that special either!!
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How about this one
(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/aqureshi2004/Scoop.jpg)
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Having never used a scoop, I'm not really fit to comment, but surely they just don't work. More wood around the edges and less meat in the middle, aren't they a bit powerless?
Also is it me, or in GN's stock photos of the Scoop (as seen on VKS) the edge near the shoulder at the top looks wonky?
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Asad don't tempt me :(
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this is just a start ;)
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Oh this just makes me wish wish my one would turn up !
Looks good Asad
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Having never used a scoop, I'm not really fit to comment, but surely they just don't work. More wood around the edges and less meat in the middle, aren't they a bit powerless?
do they not just work on the same principle as a perimeter weighted golf club?
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How about this one
([url]http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/aqureshi2004/Scoop.jpg[/url])
one like that with a long blade would be perfect thanks.
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do they not just work on the same principle as a perimeter weighted golf club?
Basically, yes. You still have the pressed layer on the face of the bat, which crucially, you don't remove any wood from, and then the weight of the bat is in the surrounding "perimeter". The weight is still there but gives you extra thickness away from the middle for those not entirely well hit shots.
At least, that's the theory....
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Having never used a scoop, I'm not really fit to comment, but surely they just don't work. More wood around the edges and less meat in the middle, aren't they a bit powerless?
Back in the 70s and 80s, people like the Chappell brothers, David Gower, Clive Lloyd and Gordon Greenidge and many others managed to score test centuries with scoops, so they can't be that useless!
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Lara got a big one with a scoop
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Lara could get a big one with a piece of balsa wood
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Lara could get a big one with a piece of balsa wood
or a broom handle
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or a broom handle
Stick of celery would probably do the trick...
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Stick of celery would probably do the trick...
Oddly, I have a stick of celery used by the great man himself for sale on eBay - G1+++++++++ with seventy one straight grains and a hint of heartveg only selling it because I'm quitting the sports due to my wife making me do the dishes...