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Title: Gunn and Moore Icon DXM Original L.E.
Post by: littlemaster on May 30, 2012, 03:57:45 PM

I got one of these bats for my birthday last year and it snapped in August, I then got it repaired and GM sent it back. It has now fully snapped down the middle. I have previously had 4 GM's that have done the same. What is wrong with GM??

Title: Re: Gunn and Moore Icon DXM Original L.E.
Post by: Jagminder on May 30, 2012, 04:05:14 PM

Are you using good quality balls?
How do you store your bats during winter?
If it has happened to your bats so many times - it can't be just bad luck.

Jag.

Title: Re: Gunn and Moore Icon DXM Original L.E.
Post by: littlemaster on May 30, 2012, 04:08:29 PM

I am mainly using Dukes balls around £4 and they don't wear out easily. I store my bat in my cricket bag which lives under my bed most of the time.

Title: Re: Gunn and Moore Icon DXM Original L.E.
Post by: A-Swing-And-A-Miss on May 30, 2012, 04:15:49 PM

Do you oil/knock them in properly. 5 bats all doing the same sounds far too many to be a coincidence tbh. Also, if you had already broke 4 GM bats why did you then decide to get a really expensive GM bat? Did you not think of moving onto another brand instead?

Title: Re: Gunn and Moore Icon DXM Original L.E.
Post by: Perkins17 on May 30, 2012, 04:46:54 PM

It could be down to a fault in the willow but I would say the main problem is the fact your using £4 balls on a £300 bat which is never a clever idea!
how much knocking in did you do and did you play it in against old balls?

Title: Re: Gunn and Moore Icon DXM Original L.E.
Post by: tim2000s on May 30, 2012, 04:59:09 PM

Quote from: Perkins17 on May 30, 2012, 04:46:54 PM

It could be down to a fault in the willow but I would say the main problem is the fact your using £4 balls on a £300 bat which is never a clever idea!
how much knocking in did you do and did you play it in against old balls?

Quite - £4 Dukes balls are Bat Breakers, and no amount of knocking in is going to change that...

Title: Re: Gunn and Moore Icon DXM Original L.E.
Post by: Jagminder on May 30, 2012, 05:06:54 PM

Quote from: tim2000s on May 30, 2012, 04:59:09 PM

£4 Dukes balls are Bat Breakers...........................

This sums up I guess.