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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Spanky on April 14, 2012, 05:13:50 PM

Title: Mongoose willow grading
Post by: Spanky on April 14, 2012, 05:13:50 PM

Visited Morrant today to try and get some wicket keeping gloves. So whilst there I had a quick look and feel of a few bats.

The Mongoose Torq bats really caught my eye being big for such light weights, had a look at the Torq Prime the lowest model costing £95 and was impressed by the quality of the willow, most having 7-9 grains. Then looking at the higher grade models I couldn't see much difference. Atleast not enough to warrant the big price difference.

So do Mongoose grade on performance?

Thanks

Title: Re: Mongoose willow grading
Post by: Tom on April 14, 2012, 05:35:40 PM

No, it's done on looks. But they don't buy any really low grades and upgrade like other brands, hence no need for bleaching and no heavily stained bats.

Title: Re: Mongoose willow grading
Post by: Spanky on April 14, 2012, 05:37:26 PM

Thanks Tom, was really suprised with by the quality of the bats.

Title: Re: Mongoose willow grading
Post by: Spanky on April 19, 2012, 06:44:12 AM

One more question are all the grades of Mongoose bats made in the UK?

Thanks

Title: Re: Mongoose willow grading
Post by: Tom on April 19, 2012, 07:30:38 AM

No. Some are, some aren't in all grades.

Title: Re: Mongoose willow grading
Post by: Spanky on April 19, 2012, 01:05:59 PM

Any way of telling which are UK made?

Title: Re: Mongoose willow grading
Post by: Tom on April 19, 2012, 01:14:29 PM

Erm, not really for the untrained eye.

Ask the retailer if he knows where they're from, a specialist probably has more chance of UK made bats than a small retailer.