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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: uknsaunders on November 16, 2015, 09:58:31 AM
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Harping back to the crictech sheets I used a few years ago, I took 2 bats with no use and used them against a bowling machine at Dummer Saturday. @petehosk also used them extensively. Possibly a couple of others had a go. Anyway, you can see very nicely the ball impact areas on the two photos below:-
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Dummer is a bit spongy and the ball can bounce up but it's interesting how little the toe gets bashed. Pete was mainly driving the ball and I had a mixture of good length, shortish and half volleys. Not sure what others had.
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I always like to do a decent job of playing the edges in Nick!
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dummer is a very bouncy surface... just ask the stig!
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Must be as I bounced @WalkingWicket37 bowling spin ;)
I'll take these to @Vitas Cricket next weekend and see whether the ball marks spread much on a slightly lower surface.
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I need to try the GN in less bouncy nets too! If I am striking the ball mid-high on the bat, then I need to know.
It certainly seemed to be quite high on the bat most of the time. I know people do mention the bouncy wicket but I also remember that past experiments indicated that wickets have less to do with it than we think!!
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I need to try the GN in less bouncy nets too! If I am striking the ball mid-high on the bat, then I need to know.
It certainly seemed to be quite high on the bat most of the time. I know people do mention the bouncy wicket but I also remember that past experiments indicated that wickets have less to do with it than we think!!
Always surprised me how high up the bat I hit the ball. Always used to go for a mid-low middle then when I checked, I discovered that a mid-middle was fine.
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I need to try the GN in less bouncy nets too! If I am striking the ball mid-high on the bat, then I need to know.
It certainly seemed to be quite high on the bat most of the time. I know people do mention the bouncy wicket but I also remember that past experiments indicated that wickets have less to do with it than we think!!
The basic tests I did on lower bouncing decks indicated a marginal difference (a couple of CM) but essentially the balls all hit the same areas. You crouch more on lower bouncing decks to compensate.
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I had a bit of a smash with those two aswell, and considering I was playing some on the half volley the stoke marks are very high indeed!
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Hard to tell from photos if it's happened here but in my experience some shots mark less or don't leave a mark - anything where the ball is skidding across the surface a little is much more likely to leave a big mark, so a cut or square drive might be obvious whereas a punch down the ground may not show so well. Anyone else seen the same?
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Generally that is true for cherries but for bowling machine indents I think it's different
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Generally that is true for cherries but for bowling machine indents I think it's different
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Yeah definitely true with proper balls, do think you get the same effect, albeit lesser, with bola balls though?
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I always thought because they were harder off the bat they left marks on every attacking shot, because on my old scuff sheets I always had bola marks everywhere on the bat, but only cherries on certain parts of the blade
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