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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: bigswingnoding on July 18, 2013, 02:59:01 PM
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Well from experience last year i bought a GN Legend and i sent it off to be knocked in at choice willow ( hemel Hempstead) and it sounded really good until its first game then i hit a 6 then went again for one and it snapped in my hands :( total devastation all around the club as my lovely bit of will broke. so i wanted to hear about your expensive bat which turned into money well lost.
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Newbery Tour, not so much that it's a bad bat, more that I'm too cautious when using it, so can't bat normally! :-[ I don't think I've broken many bats at all and I've been pretty lucky to get some good ones!
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The Afridi LAM was disappointing!
First real outing in the nets and the handle went! Luckily Chase was next door so cheap Pakistan handle was replaced by a decent quality one.
Now the bat goes well! ;)
Did have a Legend myself and couldn't get on with it! Just didn't suit the way I played. The cleft was top notch but sold it in the end, and the guy I sold it to got on really well with it! Go figure!!
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Bradbury Players
Bradbury use too be top notch bats when they were in Taunton but I think a lot are made overseas now where the wood is pressed really hard. The result was a hard bat that took ages to open up and not the lovely soft pressed ones of 6 years ago :(
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My M&H Original Low.
Bought it from Talent Cricket last year as a 2lb8, but now currently weighs 2lb11. Was convinced through the whole of last season that it was heavier than I thought/was told. Also has a dreadful pick up.
Still managed to score my first 50 with it, which is also the reason I haven't sold it.
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MH 2012 Distinction, shockingly thin handle and very very poor balance. I just couldnt bat with it, so invariably started an innigns with it and changed it after a few overs.
sold for £200 practically brand new.
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Well from experience last year i bought a GN Legend and i sent it off to be knocked in at choice willow ( hemel Hempstead) and it sounded really good until its first game then i hit a 6 then went again for one and it snapped in my hands :( total devastation all around the club as my lovely bit of will broke. so i wanted to hear about your expensive bat which turned into money well lost.
Why didn't you send the two halves back?! I would have done if I'd just paid £400 for a bat!!
Luckily I've never paid much money for a bat, I got a Hunts County Insignia bought for me when I was 16, cost £75 and was a plank, it cracked the full length of the blade during the 2nd season.
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For me, It's the H4L Hattori I had. just could never get on with the thing.
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SAF Hades
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Genuinely surprised by all the recent posts saying the saf hades wasn't great. I quite fancied one.
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Genuinely surprised by all the recent posts saying the saf hades wasn't great. I quite fancied one.
If anyone has ever asked me I have provided my honest opinion. I am sure some have had good SAF bats, mine wasn't one of them.
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Kookaburra Kahuna Ricky Ponting. End Of!
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GM Luna 808
may be i had too many expectations from it
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SS Ton LE, probably my own fault for picking a heavier bat than my usual.
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and also GM Hero 808, again went with a lot heavier bat than I should have.
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Had a Bradbury Players with a middle the size of a pin head! Sent it back and told it was fine. Had a Legend and a L&W Signature that were the most beautiful looking fence palings as well. :(
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Shame to hear the Bradbury's. I have one of the first in the UK. It's battered, bruised,cracked and sounds like it is delaminating but it still goes.
Have to say an Adidas from the outlet shop or a couple of Puma's that I really should have given more time to before deciding I didn't like them.
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Shame to hear the Bradbury's. I have one of the first in the UK. It's battered, bruised,cracked and sounds like it is delaminating but it still goes.
Have to say an Adidas from the outlet shop or a couple of Puma's that I really should have given more time to before deciding I didn't like them.
I was gonna start a thread about Bradbury bats as I have heard good things about them. Ut reading here maybe I was wrong?
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I think this just demonstrates that the bad versions of a product are what people notice. For every Bradbury, gn, fn, etc that'sbad, there are far more good ones that nobody mentions.
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I was gonna start a thread about Bradbury bats as I have heard good things about them. Ut reading here maybe I was wrong?
Cant fault mine. Goes like a rocket even though it is ancient and been fixed 4-5 times.
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All you see on this forum are people raving about how nice their bats are when they recieve them and before they have been used in a match. Having spent top dollar it takes a brave man to say that it was a duff one after they have actually used the bat. Look at all the SAF bat reviews on the forum screaming how good they are yet there seems to be some people accepting differently now.
Its such a personal thing to like a bat and especially with a custom bat you will never actually pick up the bat until its paid for and delivered. Just look at the various stunning bats that are always on sale here. Ive always preferred a knocked in top grade bat thats been lightly used as im an impatient bugger and they are usually sold about 30% cheaper.
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My GM Epic 909 is taking bloody ages to open up, not expensive as I got it in a PDC mid season sale but as happy as I am with pick up and feel it seems like it will never open up. Nt quite ready to give up yet.
The worst bat I have had that ost me good money was a Mjolner SPS just couldn't seem to find the middle or feel comfy with it, possible the small edges played on my mind but I have seen Mjolners smash the ball as far as any bat in some people's hands but I tried for half a season 3 years ago and only scored about 200 runs in first half of that season. Git over 800 in second half once I changed to another bat, thinkit may have been my Powerbow which for me was the exact opposite to the Mjolner.
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I bought an unused GN Legend for $300 off a bloke, was an absolute plank. On sold it again for $150 to a fella in my team and he found it to be a plank as well. Gave him my paradox to try and haven't seen it since!
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I bought an unused GN Legend for $300 off a bloke, was an absolute plank. On sold it again for $150 to a fella in my team and he found it to be a plank as well. Gave him my paradox to try and haven't seen it since!
Even off the forum I am hearing a few people complain about Legends.
Can it be something to do with Gray Nicolls way of grading own willow.
in terms of performance yet to hear complaints about the SS Gladiators, BAS shadow or Bow 2020 or CA top stuff or MB LEs- . (wrights way of grading willow for SS, CA or MB and BAS).
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I bought an unused GN Legend for $300 off a bloke, was an absolute plank. On sold it again for $150 to a fella in my team and he found it to be a plank as well. Gave him my paradox to try and haven't seen it since!
:D well done on selling on a plank
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Even off the forum I am hearing a few people complain about Legends.
Can it be something to do with Gray Nicolls way of grading own willow.
in terms of performance yet to hear complaints about the SS Gladiators, BAS shadow or Bow 2020 or CA top stuff or MB LEs- . (wrights way of grading willow for SS, CA or MB and BAS).
When i went to kingsgrove, the GM Original, Original LE and Players all had better grains then the GN Legends
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Woodstock TDF. I hasten to say it wasn't a bad bat, it just didn't feel right for me. I'd always had traditional-shaped bats and this one was heavily concaved with large edges and I struggled to find the middle (as did others who used it).
I did score a rapid 50 with it (team score was 70 when I reached 50) but this was the exception to the norm. The feeling of 'middling' an edge was a strange experience!
Beautiful looking bat and I'm sure its going well for someone, it just didn't float my boat...
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Woodstock TDF. I hasten to say it wasn't a bad bat, it just didn't feel right for me. I'd always had traditional-shaped bats and this one was heavily concaved with large edges and I struggled to find the middle (as did others who used it).
I did score a rapid 50 with it (team score was 70 when I reached 50) but this was the exception to the norm. The feeling of 'middling' an edge was a strange experience!
Beautiful looking bat and I'm sure its going well for someone, it just didn't float my boat...
Mine goes like a rocket and the last person to borrow it made an unbeaten century, I'm still not getting in with it as well as my more traditionally shaped Chase but I'm reluctant to give up on it after less than a season
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Mine goes like a rocket and the last person to borrow it made an unbeaten century, I'm still not getting in with it as well as my more traditionally shaped Chase but I'm reluctant to give up on it after less than a season
I think that's spot on. I used it for a season and just didn't feel 100% right with it. Got a custom B3 with a bit more behind it and much happier. Hope yours continues to go well...
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I bought it off you Jamielsn, Lovely bat with a small middle that got me few fifties but sold it on later.
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I bought it off you Jamielsn, Lovely bat with a small middle that got me few fifties but sold it on later.
Exactly the same experience as me then!
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I bought an unused GN Legend for $300 off a bloke, was an absolute plank. On sold it again for $150 to a fella in my team and he found it to be a plank as well. Gave him my paradox to try and haven't seen it since!
Quite a few fella's on here then who have had bad experiences with the so called Legend from Gray Nicholls, wonder why they appear so bad are they pressed to lightly or just not as resposive as you would expect for a bad costing around the 300 pound mark or more.
Has anybody used or seen anyone using any of the new retro line from Slazenger as i did think of getting a V12 or V6 at the start of the season but money for them was too high.
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BAS a few years ago it was a shocker I just could not use it. A team mate still uses it now and really likes it so it was probably due to it being the wrong shape and balance for me than anything else.
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In my opinion BAS are probably the best all-round quality Asian bats! Closely followed by SS and CA (CA were always let down by their handles in the past!
Granted that some of the stickers leave a lot to be desired......but the quality and performance of the bats themselves are generally excellent!
With the Legend I had (and sold on) the willow was excellent and there was no question that the middle was decent! But I simply didn't get on with the profile too well, middle position and the way it felt!
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Anybody just though a bit of bad batting might be the cause of these bats not performing as expected???
I think 90 per cent of bats all perform the same
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So tempted to go through this thread and check the for sale.
Be interesting to see if someone posted not liking a bat or felt it was a fence panal only to sell it as "a gun out the middle"
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GM Purist Original for me (sorry Colesy!)
Performed brilliantly for a few months but was the first and last bat (touch wood!) that ever properly broke on me so the overwhelming feeling I had about it was disappointment.