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Title: marks on a bat...
Post by: Buzz on May 02, 2012, 09:06:51 PM
ok, I was having a net this evening and was interested that there was some grouping on the bat.

(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/utf-8BSU1BRzA3NjcuanBn.jpg)

what do you guys think?

I think there may be evidence of a strength and a weakness...
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Post by: Johnny on May 02, 2012, 09:11:22 PM
I hope that's a knocking in mallet in the top left corner - looks suspiciously phallic!

Anyway, who needs Crictech sheets!!!
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Post by: PedalsMcgrew on May 02, 2012, 09:11:33 PM
The grouping on the edge would suggest an 'out to in' swing?  Maybe picking up the bat towards 2nd slip then bringing it down towards mid on?

Not sure what strength that might indicate.......good off your legs maybe?
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Post by: LEACHY48 on May 02, 2012, 09:28:07 PM
The grouping on the edge would suggest an 'out to in' swing?  Maybe picking up the bat towards 2nd slip then bringing it down towards mid on?

Not sure what strength that might indicate.......good off your legs maybe?


or could be closing the face slightly? maybe too tight on the bottom hand? thats the same problem i have lol
Title: Re: marks on a bat...
Post by: Buzz on May 03, 2012, 08:39:59 AM
i think if those were the issues then the marks would be on the inside edge and there wouldn't be a smattering near the middle...
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Post by: tim2000s on May 03, 2012, 09:39:12 AM
Someone kept bowliong slow bouncers at you and you were playing through them too quickly, resulting in hitting the outside edge of the bat....
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Post by: Number4 on May 03, 2012, 09:46:45 AM
You weren't getting to the pitch of the ball and playing balls that should have been left
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Post by: Ryan on May 03, 2012, 09:47:18 AM
shows you can put a half volley away?
Title: Re: marks on a bat...
Post by: Buzz on May 03, 2012, 09:48:10 AM
Someone kept bowliong slow bouncers at you and you were playing through them too quickly, resulting in hitting the outside edge of the bat....
not sure I can imagine fattus bowling long hops at me in the barn, he is a bowler afterall!
Title: Re: marks on a bat...
Post by: Buzz on May 03, 2012, 09:48:48 AM
shows you can put a half volley away?
or at least block a few!
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Post by: Ryan on May 03, 2012, 09:51:34 AM
the makes on the outside edge could be from opening the face while driving/ blocking?
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Post by: Ryan on May 03, 2012, 09:52:00 AM
"working the ball" rather than pushing it back?
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Post by: PedalsMcgrew on May 03, 2012, 10:17:04 AM
Unless all the marks on the bat were as a result of playing just the one shot then it's almost impossible to know! I assumed with my analysis that you were playing a drive of some sort....Was I right??  :D
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Post by: tim2000s on May 03, 2012, 10:20:00 AM
Hmmm, in the barn.... Pitching it just on a length and some playing true with others leaping off teh ridge and taking the edge...
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Post by: Buzz on May 03, 2012, 10:56:10 AM
the answer is I wasn't getting to the pitch of the ball whilst trying to defend/drive a little on the up. It is good to know that the middle position on the bat suits my play though :)

I wouldn't want to use the ridge as an excuse, really. But there is a really big ridge on a length at the barn which makes this kind of thing a little ambitious and obviously it would be totally unlike Fattus to try and hit the edge at extreme speeds to cause as much chaos as possible. :o
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Post by: Number4 on May 03, 2012, 11:01:14 AM
the answer is I wasn't getting to the pitch of the ball whilst trying to defend/drive a little on the up. It is good to know that the middle position on the bat suits my play though :)

I wouldn't want to use the ridge as an excuse, really. But there is a really big ridge on a length at the barn which makes this kind of thing a little ambitious and obviously it would be totally unlike Fattus to try and hit the edge at extreme speeds to cause as much chaos as possible. :o

Hmmm isn't that what I said?
Title: Re: marks on a bat...
Post by: Buzz on May 03, 2012, 11:31:27 AM
yes, sorry I didn't see your comment
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Post by: Canners on May 03, 2012, 11:54:20 AM

i think it means your ready to move up from facing 50mph half volleys :)
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Post by: Number4 on May 03, 2012, 11:59:03 AM
yes, sorry I didn't see your comment

That's ok I'm used to being ignored... After all I am only an Aussie  ;)
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Post by: FattusCattus on May 03, 2012, 07:49:45 PM
Well I can reveal that due to expert feeding of the bowling machine he hit a lot out of the middle. However, when I decided that this became boring, and we moved on to the short stuff, he left an awful lot more!

He is annoyingly good at middling loads, but he can easily be lured into overconfidence and flashing wildly at good balls, hence the outside edges :)

Ohh, and I was swinging it MILES!
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Post by: Canners on May 03, 2012, 07:59:02 PM

stop giving him a big head
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Post by: FattusCattus on May 03, 2012, 08:09:07 PM
He, he - he slipped me one at over 70 in there and I nearly pooped my pants!

You'll note the use of the words 'annoyingly good'!

We found the ridge several times last night though - that's always fun!
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Post by: Maverick79 on May 03, 2012, 08:17:18 PM
He, he - he slipped me one at over 70 in there and I nearly pooped my pants!

I thought you guys were having a net.....  ;)
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Post by: Canners on May 03, 2012, 08:21:07 PM
I thought you guys were having a net.....  ;)

hahaha brucey is quite fond of being slipped one full of a length
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Post by: FattusCattus on May 03, 2012, 08:23:09 PM
ah - but never slip me a full-bunger!!
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Post by: Richard @ CricTech on May 04, 2012, 02:09:10 AM
Anyway, who needs Crictech sheets!!!

hey! anyone who doesn't want to spend five quid on a new extratec face everytime they net  :)
Title: Re: marks on a bat...
Post by: Buzz on May 09, 2012, 08:46:02 PM
here is the evidence from this evening, an aweful lot near the splice and inside edge!
(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/utf-8BSU1BRzA3ODQuanBn.jpg)
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Post by: tommo256 on May 09, 2012, 08:58:20 PM
I want to come to the barn, pretty please may I be invited