Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: SillyShilly on April 16, 2009, 08:33:00 AM
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Thought i would start a new topic considering i should be writing a dissertation and this seems like a worthy distraction! :-\
The first bat i ever owned was a gray nicolls scoop 2000, covered in that horrible white covering and quite simply a stinker of a bat.......
Write down the first bat you ever owned and what it was like........ (please)
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Well bar the plank from the Pound Shop... my first real bat was a Slazenger V800 Panther (Kashmir Willow) it went really well though so I was happy ;)
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Mine was a Gunn and Moore Skipper that was also rather white and had a middle the size of a gnat's chuff but as it was my first bat was a prized possession!
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My first english willow bats were - POWER (used by Kapil Dev and a few other Indian and Pakistani cricketers in the mid 80's) and a Symonds Tusker.
The Tusker was a excellent bat and served me very well for 3-4 years (pretty longtime). The POWER one was a decent stick and ended up as a autograph bat after a (year's usage)
Both the bats were Polycoated (something like a varnish) which protected the bat from water and drying but made the willow look goldenish brown.
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first proper bat was a slazenger v600 ultimate.
didn't realise the importance of knocking in at the time so it broke in 1/2 a season but no knocking in did have the result of morphing it into a rocket launcher!
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gray-nicholls excalibur pretty good bat
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mine was a kashmir brian lara 501* bat. and it went like a train! i was looking for it around the house the other day only to find that my mother binned it 5 years ago!
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My beloved Gunn and Moore Striker, what a gun! I did a kiddies cricket set bat before that which was nice but I don't think it was willow.
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If I remember correctly my first proper bat was a Gray Nicholls Powerspot, followed by about 6 Slazenger V12s which broke one after the other, before I gave up on them.
1st SH bat was a Newbery Mjolnir, which kept me going from the age of 14/15 til 27 (though I did have 6/7 seasons out of the game after uni due to work) when it broke brutally - was a lovely piece of willow.
Then bought a Slaz Elite Pro, which has recently been refurbed by Gary @ Redback, but is now my net/spare bat, as I have a spankingly good Redback Allegiance, which shall be causing carnage across Hertfordshire this summer.
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My first bat was a size 4 Open Championship Autograph. Being left handed, David Gower was one of my idols when I was a kid and I really wanted a Gray-Nic Powerspot, but then he changed sponsor to OC and my Dad got me one of these as it was cheap. It was bought from Sugg Sports in Chesterfield when we were there visting family.
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Seem to remember having a Newbery size 6 before their image change... it was the one with the orange and black graphics... think Gatting was using them at the time. To be fair for a small bat it pinged really well.
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Kookaburra Bubble, Kashmir Willow, White Fabric Covering
...but used a GM Maestro which was kashmir for a bit too i think...
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Mine was a gray nicholls dynadrive 500 that i still have, was a great little bat and was chuffed with it when i was little, english willow and didnt have the sheets or anything on
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Hunts county glory custom classic, loved it ! still got it :D !
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Mine was slazenger v600 panther, the green one- still got it now!
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Any idea whatever happened to the POWER bats? That was my first bat too. I quite liked it. Nice middle. I tried to find what happened to the company - are they taken over by another big company or did they just close down?
My first english willow bats were - POWER (used by Kapil Dev and a few other Indian and Pakistani cricketers in the mid 80's) and a Symonds Tusker.
The Tusker was a excellent bat and served me very well for 3-4 years (pretty longtime). The POWER one was a decent stick and ended up as a autograph bat after a (year's usage)
Both the bats were Polycoated (something like a varnish) which protected the bat from water and drying but made the willow look goldenish brown.
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I had a cheeky little gray nicholls number with the horrible white fabric covering, which I took off one day to find three horrific knots in the wood, and I mean real knots that were dark brown and even jutted out of the blade a bit. I was horrified and as I didnt know what else to do (i was inexperienced in the cricket world) covered them with masking tape!! Ha!!! Good times!
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My first one was a Fearnly, my first Real bat was a Woodworm Torch (premier)
My first SH was a Gray Nicholls Powerbow
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Mine was a Hunts County Destroyer - beautiful middle. Still in the garage about to be framed!!
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Slazenger V100. I still have it aswell!