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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: 19reading87 on October 30, 2014, 02:51:24 PM
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.... The lowest grade of willow bat you knowingly used?
Would be interesting to see what people say and could settle the argument of a question I've been asked before (due to being an equipment geek)... "Does a grade 1 bat make the bat play better??" (Yes I know a lot is down to pressing etc etc)
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All 3 of my tons came with low grade gray nics. I'd say maybe 3 but could be 2. Grays grading is random.
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Top score was 116* with a G2 Dukes Pro-Century. Indeed I averaged 70+ with that monster until it snapped after a season. I think my first ton might of been with a G3 V100 back in the early 90s.
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66* with a GM 303 a couple of seasons ago! (Although it wasn't stickered as a GM) ;)
Also got a 50 with a GM 404 season just gone.
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Used a few grade 2/3 in my younger days and scored a few hundreds with them
As long as the bat isn't a complete plank the bat doesn't matter at all.
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115 with a 3lb CJI Sumo Kashmir bat. Since retired it with a large crack through the toe.
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110* with a powerbow strike I bought from Jake last year.
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116* with a Malik Zulfi I picked up off of eBay for £35.
Though top 5 scores have all comes with a Newbery Mjolnir, Adidas Incurza Elite or Puma Ballistic 6000...
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46 with a Newbery Zeus 5*. My third highest score ever...
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Not boasting here but I've scored over 50 centuries and all of them were with a bat that cost less than £200 (so no grade 1+ super fabulous 45mm edge, offset edge, part concaved, with special handle inserts , embossed sparkly stickers, or whatever rubbish is spouted on here) apart from about 6 which I got with a Laver from 2006 to 2008 that I paid just over £200 for.
Apart from the last 2 years all my bats have been bought blind on the Internet or from a sports shop or bat maker based on me saying oval handle 2.10 please.
And not once have I weighed it once I got it but I always got them mid season, knocked them in for 6 months got used to them and only ever used a bat until it was knackered. So maximum I had was 1 useable bat at any time.
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63 with a SG (don't remember the name but it was one of those ones with white cover on the entire bat) that I paid Rs. 1000 for brand new in the year 2000 i think abt 14.71GBP based on the conversion rate back then
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Its not the Bat its the batsman. I've got a couple of old bats, the sort Hutton and Bradman used to use. Horrible things but those guys had a pretty decent record with them.
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And if you don't think the bowlers were as good watch Larwood. Voice and Tyson video's on you tube.
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175 no with a g2/3 bat with a balsa wood handle with cost £70
never spend more than 150 for a bat.
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I forgot to mention a 42* off 12 balls using a Wasp sting 1000 I got for about £30-35 from South Africa.
It had a blue coating that looked like gloss paint on the back and a big butterfly stain about 4 inches from the toe! (I had a butterfly bat before they were all the rage ;) )
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81* of around 60 balls with G2/G3 bat. It was Newbery Samurai 5 star.
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32 with a 90s Gray nics twin scoop with the fibre cover. After that 71 with a grade 2 or 3 kook ice Mark one.
That was my highest score until this season
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53 with Larsons back in 1998. Was club bat.... back in the day personal kits were not so common.
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Not boasting here but I've scored over 50 centuries and all of them were with a bat that cost less than £200 (so no grade 1+ super fabulous 45mm edge, offset edge, part concaved, with special handle inserts , embossed sparkly stickers, or whatever rubbish is spouted on here) apart from about 6 which I got with a Laver from 2006 to 2008 that I paid just over £200 for.
Apart from the last 2 years all my bats have been bought blind on the Internet or from a sports shop or bat maker based on me saying oval handle 2.10 please.
And not once have I weighed it once I got it but I always got them mid season, knocked them in for 6 months got used to them and only ever used a bat until it was knackered. So maximum I had was 1 useable bat at any time.
50 centuries now that is impressive. How long have you been playing cricket ?
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197 not out with a butterfly bat some say grade 4 but I say it's how it's made and pressed
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Whew, interesting question.
I've made enough tons now that I couldn't give a definitive list but a couple spring to mind. One was in my "salad days" - a Northern League D1 ton no less, all using an Open Championship that cost £25 (admittedly this is 18 years ago); another score, sadly only 85*, came with a £15 SD Kashmir Slazenger...
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Not boasting here but I've scored over 50 centuries and all of them were with a bat that cost less than £200 (so no grade 1+ super fabulous 45mm edge, offset edge, part concaved, with special handle inserts , embossed sparkly stickers, or whatever rubbish is spouted on here) apart from about 6 which I got with a Laver from 2006 to 2008 that I paid just over £200 for.
Apart from the last 2 years all my bats have been bought blind on the Internet or from a sports shop or bat maker based on me saying oval handle 2.10 please.
And not once have I weighed it once I got it but I always got them mid season, knocked them in for 6 months got used to them and only ever used a bat until it was knackered. So maximum I had was 1 useable bat at any time.
Proper cricketer!
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103* using a GN Viper Giant G3 weighing 3lb 5oz from memory
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101* using a 606 GM hero, it was my first ever ton so will always be special to me. I was only using it as my main bat has a crack in the toe, the 606 is covered in cracks and the face is delaminating, but my god does it still go!!!
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40* from no.11 using a cheap bleached bat called a 'Top Banana' from All Round cricket.
It even had a yellow grip and stickers.
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3 runs using a Kashmir willow bat.
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Here we are all showing that we've scored plenty of runs without needing the whitest, straightest grained, beautiful willow... More evidence we are addicts...
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Here we are all showing that we've scored plenty of runs without needing the whitest, straightest grained, beautiful willow... More evidence we are addicts...
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Hence my reason behind the topic mate.
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Here we are all showing that we've scored plenty of runs without needing the whitest, straightest grained, beautiful willow... More evidence we are addicts...
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Scored more tons with G1 than G2/3 etc. must be a reason to buy more G1 lol
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Scored more tons with G1 than G2/3 etc. must be a reason to buy more G1 lol
I may not have scored a ton. But the year I averaged 75 was with a g1 Mongoose!
won 4 batting trophies that year(midweek entire league, midweek individual div. Midweek and sat 1st xi avg).
Buy g1!!
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So we're not white willow wielding wallies then?
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50 centuries now that is impressive. How long have you been playing cricket ?
24 years, scored my first half century in an under 13 4 over pairs match and my first senior century at aged 14.
last 3 seasons I've been injured and only managed 2 centuries. I get about 3 or 4 a year on average so not that impressive given I play 25 games a year.
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Scored more tons with G1 than G2/3 etc. must be a reason to buy more G1 lol
Confidence in equipment - linked to mental confidence?
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24 years, scored my first half century in an under 13 4 over pairs match and my first senior century at aged 14.
last 3 seasons I've been injured and only managed 2 centuries. I get about 3 or 4 a year on average so not that impressive given I play 25 games a year.
3 or 4 a year more than I've ever got playing that many games bud!
Still an achievement in my eyes :)
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That is very good going. Who do you play for ?
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i dont think ive ever owned a g1 willow bat except maybe my mmi3 highest score with that 50 ret.
most of my bats are g3 willow and my highest score is 69
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My grade two Ace bat was probably my most productive bat runs wise.
First seasons use I averaged 46, with two big tons and 600 plus league runs
That year also played midweek t20 and usually retired after ten overs to give the rest of the team a bat,
Don't think I managed a ton in the t20,s tho
Used the bat for a few seasons, then gave it to a friend, who used it for a decent season, before it finally snapped in half!
Must have had over 3000 runs on it, two league wins and a lot of very happy memories
The bat still gets talked about now and then!ha
Best £100 I ever spent
Well,,apart from that time in Amsterdam
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My most successful bat to date has been a 3lb 2oz Kook Biggest Kahuna that looks like a railway sleeper but goes like a train! Had it 3 seasons now I think and it must have nearly 2000 runs in it, no tons but a few halfs (one in 21 balls I'm particularly pleased with).
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This was a hit of a topic before, would be great to see some more people's scores. Also given, butterfly willow is the in thing lately, have people smashed their old score with a butterfly beaut
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My highest score is 50 off 14 balls because we had to retire in our league and it was with a blueroom bombora that I got for free
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Got 5 50s last season with an Aldred butterfly, mostly ran out of overs so only had one chance to push on further though. Top score of 65, will be disappointed if I don't improve on that with it this year! My all-time highest two scores of 90 and 97 have both come with a Phoenix (local brand which I'm pretty sure is Hunts-made), charitably graded as a G2.
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Quickfire 70 with my Aldred butterfly. It was its first outing too.
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Scored 112 (and incidentally my first century) with a painted Gray Nicolls Viper which had a face that was all fibreglass tape back when I was 14. Probably wasn't even G3.
Couple of years later, 106* with a Kook Angry Beast, probably G2
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Of my 11 scores over 50 with my current club, 8 of them have been with my Helios which cost me around AUD$300 a while back. Over here that's usually considered grade 3 territory haha.
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Glad to see Helios going well :-)
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.... The lowest grade of willow bat you knowingly used?
Would be interesting to see what people say and could settle the argument of a question I've been asked before (due to being an equipment geek)... "Does a grade 1 bat make the bat play better??" (Yes I know a lot is down to pressing etc etc)
4 years on, time to bump this again!
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137* with a GN Ultimate which I think is G3 on grays grading.
111 with a GM 606
These are the two I remember with lower grades
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Highest score is 114* which I’ve scored 3 times.
1st & 2nd with a borrowed GM Purist
3rd with a borrowed Hunts
Never scored a ton with my own bat 🙈
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102* with a kookaburra sword 500 ( not sure what grade they used to be? But it was an excellent bat
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Got a violent 33* with a Genesis Cyclone as a u12- had to retire on 30. Went in with us struggling, took me 11 balls. Believe the score card was .44441.4444 with the last 3 all coming off rib height no balls! Mostly scored off school team mates which is why I remember it.
Think the cyclone was a g2, but certainly a good looking g2!
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175 no with a g2/3 bat with a balsa wood handle which cost £70
never spend more than 150 for a bat.
still this! :)
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Not my highest score, but a 63* batting 11 with a slazenger V Caribbean was a highlight.
Cost me a tenner from eBay.
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77 with a GM Maxi 303 with matching pads (FKW) (Thought I was Marcus Trescothick) painted white chasing 240+ I was on 50 in the 17th over. It was my first season playing I got caught up in the amazing Ashes summer of 2005 and since then i have been hooked....
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Got my one and only 50 with Malinga’s BAS, bought off here from @Bulldog Cricket . Gave it to our 1stXI keeper who averaged 55 with it last year. I miss the bat, but it is where it should be!
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76 with a B3 3 stripe
86no with a B3 2 stripe
71 with a Kook Ice g3.
Only those of you who've never scored a ton will no how gutted I still am to finish 86no after taking a single of the first ball of two overs to watch the guy at the other end block oit 10 balls in total...