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Companies => Custom companies => Topic started by: SAF Bats on June 14, 2009, 08:40:44 PM

Title: St Peter
Post by: SAF Bats on June 14, 2009, 08:40:44 PM
Not seen a link here for this....
http://www.sp-cricket.com/ (http://www.sp-cricket.com/)

Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Tom on June 14, 2009, 08:46:08 PM
Gear looks all like cheap Pakistani stuff. I think there was a few posts on them somewhere else on here.

Edit: SPX pads & gloves look more expensive and Indian made. Looks like Robinsons kit.
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: SillyShilly on June 14, 2009, 08:52:39 PM
anyone used one of these bats - either recently or thirty years ago?
The prices are pretty cheap considering they use the top 5% of willow. Would like to see one in the flesh, i wonder whereabouts in devon they are located...... seems to be a batmaking hotspot at the moment.....redback, moorland, island crickit and now st.peter.
Agreed on the gear - have seen better and have seen worse.
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Tom on June 14, 2009, 08:55:48 PM
Talisman had one, they don't look like English made bats. Toe guards and unfinished toes scream AS or CA to me.
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: ianbuchanan on June 14, 2009, 11:10:54 PM
anyone used one of these bats - either recently or thirty years ago?
The prices are pretty cheap considering they use the top 5% of willow. Would like to see one in the flesh, i wonder whereabouts in devon they are located...... seems to be a batmaking hotspot at the moment.....redback, moorland, island crickit and now st.peter.
Agreed on the gear - have seen better and have seen worse.

dont forget duck and run!
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Liam-SCCC on June 15, 2009, 08:49:20 AM
i like the picture from the brian lara game on their homepage!, how had would it have been to re-create that pic with real people!?
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: WALSHY on June 15, 2009, 08:58:46 AM
20/20 pads look cool!
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Redback Cricket on June 15, 2009, 09:54:28 AM


How many of them make the bats?

There certainly are a few brands poping up here, but not so many manafacturers.

Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Talisman on June 15, 2009, 01:39:19 PM
ST Peter was being sold in Crediton, by a con man. I bought a bag of kit and the bat was Kashmir willow, pads and gloves were of the lowest quality, bag had a massive hole caused by use on a brand new bag!!

The original were made by Newbery and I should have some original stickers soon, when they are found!!

As far as I know only Redback makes in Devon.
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: SAF Bats on June 15, 2009, 01:45:17 PM
It says Exmouth now.. and entirely handmade in the UK
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Talisman on June 15, 2009, 01:54:06 PM
Not the only brand claiming to make in the UK.

I heard SAF were outsourcing theirs to Peru, something about the child slave trade being strong there....
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: ianbuchanan on June 15, 2009, 01:56:46 PM
i know that island crickit definately make their bats in devon. not sure about the rest though....
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: SAF Bats on June 15, 2009, 01:57:20 PM
thats nothing compared to what I heard about Talisman Cricket.... ;D

I shaped one yesterday whilst at a BBQ wasn't Peru though more like the next village
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Tom on June 15, 2009, 01:57:52 PM
Island used to be Warsop about 2 or 3 years ago, don't think they ever made them themselves and I think it may be RNS doing them now. Although the latter may very well be wrong.
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: SillyShilly on June 15, 2009, 02:20:59 PM
sorry to have put redback in the same sentence as some of those brands - perhaps i should have said companies instead on batmakers - but like everyone has commented, redback is the only manufacturer of bats in deepest darkest corners of middle earth.
Title: Re: St Peter
Post by: Talisman on June 15, 2009, 04:24:31 PM
Don't get me started on Talisman cricket..... they are a bunch of

Tom is right as usual about Island, but the RNS Larsons are very poor quality compared to the ones I get from AJ Sports. Had a a look at them earlier this year.