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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: The Palmist on July 16, 2014, 02:44:22 PM

Title: Top 8 bats ...really
Post by: The Palmist on July 16, 2014, 02:44:22 PM

Smells of a really small selective sample size

http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/outdoor-activity/best-cricket-bats-9592478.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/outdoor-activity/best-cricket-bats-9592478.html)

wonder how many bat makers were actually contacted before producing this list

Title: Re: Top 8 bats ...really
Post by: Neon Cricket on July 16, 2014, 02:54:28 PM

Aren't those just picked straight off the AOC top list from their gear test? Seems a bit of a pointless article really...

Title: Re: Top 8 bats ...really
Post by: tailender on July 30, 2014, 11:30:51 AM

With all due respect to all brands who source their bats from bat makers and don't actually make their own stuff..... I don't think they should even be considered in things like that.

Newbery Yes, Salix Yes, Laver Yes, Woodstock.....NO! Spartan.....NO!

Just my opinion....

Title: Re: Top 8 bats ...really
Post by: tailender on July 30, 2014, 11:32:06 AM

and £450.00 for a Spartan...... Jesus Christ!!!!

Get a bat produced by the same guys, same performance etc for less than half of that.

Title: Re: Top 8 bats ...really
Post by: fasteddie on July 30, 2014, 11:34:59 AM

Lazy journalism.

The mongoose looks like a scaffold plank. Ugly.

Title: Re: Top 8 bats ...really
Post by: Neon Cricket on July 30, 2014, 11:46:28 AM

The article actually says it is Ed Kemp (AOC) who has written the list - may as well just stick a link up to the AOC gear test!!

Title: Re: Top 8 bats ...really
Post by: sarg on July 30, 2014, 10:12:46 PM

Quote from: fasteddie on July 30, 2014, 11:34:59 AM

The mongoose looks like a scaffold plank. Ugly.

Yep, it needs Decking Oil not Linseed.