Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: calcurtis98 on July 08, 2014, 01:27:21 PM
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I was just wondering what everyone had as their first bat. Mine was 4 years ago in 2010 when I started cricket aged 12, it was a woodworm I-bat and cost me £11.99 from Barrington Sports. Served me well, had some of my best scores of 10,12 and 24* with that bat. I guess you can tell that I'm not a batsman.
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My grandad gave me a Hunts County Reflex. Loved it - till I smashed it.
My first shop brought bat was an Open Championship Fibretech thing - played windball cricket with it until I was 11.
My first adult bat was a Kookaburra Bubble Plus.
All will live long in the memory :)
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Puma Stealth 2000, the one with the holes in the back. Dale I don't have too many memories with it, wasn't much of a gun if I remember.
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Funny enough never had a junior bat, started on sh bat..ss bat about 6 years ago.
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Slazenger V600, everyone wanted one, mine was a low grade model but felt great, sadly I now know it was a pile of poop.
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My dads cut down GN Scoop in the early 80's ...first real bat for youth cricket bat I can recall is a SS turbo 333.
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I had some sort of Kook that I've never beenable to identify as it had no model sticker.
It had Green and white striped stickers with the kook logo, form the Early 90's I imagine, got it from a car boot sale for about a fiver when I was 12.
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I had the lowest form of Slazenger V1200 that cost about £10.
My first adult bat was a Kookaburra Bubble 4 star. 2'11" in weight as I thought that was about was any self respecting bat should have! Now I use 2'7" - 2'8".
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A Waugh zone Kashmir bat from India.
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CA 9000
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Wonder if anyone has changed their minds since this thread http://184.154.5.91/cbforum/index.php?topic=14282.msg227568#msg227568 (http://184.154.5.91/cbforum/index.php?topic=14282.msg227568#msg227568) ?
Mine is still the Powerspot Tufcoat....
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A woodworm torch pioneer in harrow
Cost £40 and I bought it because KP used one (well, may parents bought it for me...)
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Some cheap Kashmir willow bat...first one I purchased was a SG supercover back in 98 I think
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An SS with a plastic poly coating on it that used to leave little splits instead of cherries (probably Kashmir willow).
My father bought it for me from a sports store, I remember picking it out. Looking back on it I now realize that the thing was a piece of absolute poo and the only way I ever scored boundaries with it was with the edge! God that thing had no middle whatsoever!
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My first bat was a Bradbury which I was given but my first bought bat was a Gray Nicolls Predator 5*
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Some of these 1st bats make me feel old! I was given an old Slazenger with green stickers and a horrible white fibre sheet all over it when I was about 9. The 1st bat I had bought for me to use in matches was a Duncan Fearnley GT1000 when I was 11. Nice bat, used that until had my 1st full size bat at 14 which was a Duncan Fearnley VR5* which was fantastic. Gave it to the school I used to work at and they still use it in matches. Bats were made to last in those days!
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It was a Symonds (for me and my brother) when I was very young. I don't remember playing with it before I "lost" it and after that it was an SG Boundary that served me very well.
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My size 6 "Geoff Boycott Plays" Slazenger :) It was very precious to me alongside my "Geoff Boycott on Batting" paperback, taught me everything I knew, which is probably why I still can't hit it off the square some days :-[
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A Gray Nicolls GN100 Perimeter Weighted, 5 star beauty. :)Given the lengthy nomenclature, I can see why it was generally referred to as a 'scoop'.
Lovely bat, 2lb 9oz, (too heavy for a skinny, growing lad), which cost many weeks pocket money. I thought long and hard before buying my first bat, I was probably aged 12, for about £40 (£45 rrp less discount) (1979, I think).
If I was advising someone looking to get their first proper bat, I would be delighted to inform them that getting Grade 1 willow is not necessary to get just as good a bat and substantial pocket money could therefore be saved.
David
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Mine was a Duncan Fearnley 405!
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County insignia
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County insignia
I think you're winning so far!
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I think you're winning so far!
My first few bats were all county. Infact a few weeks back I was looking through the "team kit" cupboard to see what was in there, and one of them was still sat there. May take some pics next home game.
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My first English willow bat was a Slazenger V500 select from 2002, prior to that I used to play windball cricket with an old Ducan Fearnley Max picked up from a car boot.
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My first bat was a Gray Nicolls scoop 2000, don't have many memories of scoring runs with it. After this was a kook bubble limited edition my dad got me from Romida and that is still in my all time top 3 bats I have ever owned.
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I inherited a Duncan Fearnley 'Extra Cover' from my brother. The wood was painted white and it had a plastic cover over it.
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My 1st bat I can remember is a Duncan Fearnley Colt.The first bat I remember purchasing was a Kookaburra Ridgeback
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GN Scoop. Second bat was a County Clipper. First bat I bought myself was a Powerspot Classic then a GN Elite LE (David Boon era )
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Summer of 1975 - St. Peter SP as used by England skipper Tony Greig.
If I remeber correctly it was £5 plus so many tokens from the back of Quaker Oats - bats made in Nelson, Lancashire I think.
First adult bat I actually bought was a DF AB 10,000 in about 1994, quality.
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Was a old power spot given by my uncle when he quit the game ..was a heavy bat but loved it
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Summer of 1975 - St. Peter SP as used by England skipper Tony Greig.
If I remeber correctly it was £5 plus so many tokens from the back of Quaker Oats - bats made in Nelson, Lancashire I think.
First adult bat I actually bought was a DF AB 10,000 in about 1994, quality.
My hometown indeed by Lamberts Timber Yard mate in Nelson.
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My home town too!
Can still remember lamberts burning down
All that quality willow gone
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First bat for kids cricket I remember is a GN Scimitar. First bat I got for adult cricket was a Hunt's County Mettle 3 star
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I started playing cricket only 2 years ago. So never had a junior bat. My first bat was a Kookaburra Kashmir willow 2nd hand bat which cost me something like $50. It wasn't perfect for me, so sold it after two months for $32.
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Newbery Excalibur - loved it ;)
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First bat was a DF magnum
Nothing's come close to how good that bat was(very slightly rose tinted)
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Hunts County size 3 followed by a Symonds Tusker. Christ, I loved that bat...
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My hometown indeed by Lamberts Timber Yard mate in Nelson.
There was once a brand called Lambert's. The bat my grandfather had in his 'barn' was a Lambert's. It's in my parents' attic now, I believe. Must have been from the same place?
My first proper bat was a Slazenger 'Geoff Boycott plays...' Five Star. My parents had good intentions, but I never got to actually use it in a competitive cricket match.
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My home town too!
Can still remember lamberts burning down
All that quality willow gone
Would love to know more about Lambert's (see above post).
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Regarding lamberts
It's still in Nelson,,, used to be a couple of you tube videos showing the willow etc
I vaguely remember the bats, quite a few were used locally,
The woodyard at Waidshouse rd, was burnt down a long time ago, there was some pretty dramatic videos of this also.
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http://youtu.be/btVPsMPYriM (http://youtu.be/btVPsMPYriM)
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Regarding lamberts
It's still in Nelson,,, used to be a couple of you tube videos showing the willow etc
I vaguely remember the bats, quite a few were used locally,
The woodyard at Waidshouse rd, was burnt down a long time ago, there was some pretty dramatic videos of this also.
Do you have any knowledge of their cricket bat brand?
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Slazenger Master Blaster harrow. Way too heavy for me...hit a big six in juniors though.
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Not really
From very distant memory,, the bats had a good name, but were going out of fashion,by the time I started playing.
And in those days, late 70,s most sports shops,sold decent bats from all the big names, so a lamberts bat would have looked very old fashioned.
My apologies for my ignorance,,
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a lamberts bat would have looked very old fashioned.
My grandfather's bat certainly looks old-fashioned now!
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1990 A BDM Kashmir with Kapil Dev's autograph. Used and held together with nails, glue, tape etc. for another few years.
2005 First English Willow Bat GM Hero 808
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Duncan Fearnley 'Extra Cover'. It was painted white with a plastic cover over the wood.
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I had a Warsop Perfection. It was quality, but I had no idea how to look after it and ended up ruining it by over oiling.
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The first bat I shelled out my hard earned cash for was an Adidas Incurza Pro. It had so little ping the ball would virtually stop dead off the middle. Worse still I followed that up with a Woodworm Globe. Like the nazi guy in Indianna Jones and the Last Crusade I "chose poorly"......
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My first was a Duncan Fearnley Hammer - weighty but my god did the ball fly!
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Gray nics scoop then scoop 2000 Lara one then hand me down from goochy heavy old best sh went like a rocket that age I was 12 to 13
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Slazenger Geoff boycott ..... Still have it and the white painted face is still going strong and the stump marks in the back from hammering in the stumps look as good as ever
My brothers first bat was a size 4 county colt
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Me and my brother shared a GM Skipper! I dread to think what was underneath that white paint!
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Had a SS Jumbo, that was an absolute rocket.
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My brother and I shared a hunts county turbo, which was a hand me down from our dad
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I think my first bat was a malvern star :o hand me down from my brother,
soon followed up by a Dean Jones kookaburra and then a size 6 Stuart Surridge from K-mart, might have been a Mark Taylor model
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It would have been a Duncan Fearnley Colt, aged 12 or 13 in 87 or 88. Always borrowed bats before then, but this was the first I owned.
The first I bought myself was a Gray Nicolls Twin Scoop a few years later, with the white fibre face - still got it in the loft I think
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First one was a Green Stickered GN in about 06 (can't remember what the name of it was, any ideas?) never had a Kid's bat, was too damn big for one!
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Probably a fusion
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That was my initial thought, but I don't remember it having those hideous graphics on the back. I'll dig it out of my Dad's shed.
Got that bat from Brentwood Sports, those were the days....