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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Jason_Yuan on May 27, 2013, 06:13:33 PM
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Hi guys,
I bought this kookaburra kahuna t20 bat in hong kong today from Montgomery cricket shop. This bat weights about 2.11 apparently and has about 8 kinda straight grains. It got about 40+mm edge I think, this bat when I search on internet is apparently grade 3 unbleached willow but It kinda look like a grade 2 to me it looks absolutely lovely and pings great. Guys tell me what u think of the bat and what grade It should be in.
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Some companies will class that as Grade 1. Lovely grains, a little wobbly, but nothing serious. Maybe there's hidden blemishes under some of the stickers which could be why its graded lower? But looking at the visible wood, I would grade it as grade 1 or at least high end grade 2.
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that's what I thought as well mate but It cost about 100 quid to buy it and to be fair a grade 1 or even high grade 2 won't be that cheap, but can't wait to try it out in the net on Wednesday to see if it is worth it or not!
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Yeah nice bats these but make sure you add good amount of tape of the toe of the bat, with pick-up being so light on these bats the additional tape should not affect it too much, the toe on these is really weak. I broke the toe on a mates bat yesterday that is now sitting at my home covered in glue and clamps...
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great cheers for telling me mate!!!
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Lovely bat that is, my friend had a kahuna t20 and it had 4 grains and plenty of heart wood !
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These bats can be absolute guns. Lovely pick up and absolutely fly. For a mainstream manufacturer they have one of the nicest middles.
Not sure whether the performance is consistent. However I got mine from Paul at IJC, and he picked a beaut
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Those grains are really nice for a grade 3! Got lucky with the deal as that could have easily been sold as a grade 1/2
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yeah i know right! use it a few times in the nets already and it really fly!!