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Equipment => Your Kit => Topic started by: FattusCattus on January 20, 2016, 07:29:08 PM
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With my nerd head on, I remember a few brands from my past that don't seem to be as prevelant as they used to be and I wondered if people knew what happened to them, or what they are doing now.
I'll start with a few:
Pony - Used to make cricket shoes, you never hear of them now
Funky - did he wrap up the brand when he changed bats?
Redback - I'm sure he's going strong, but lovely kit and you don't seem to hear of him
Tusker - brief retro-revival, then disappeared
Open Championship - ?
Zenith - Seem to think they were from SA, but not sure. Fluro stickers on the bats I think?
Sommers - ?
Anyone know any inside gossip, or have any other musings?
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Isn't funky cricket a Sponser of Hampshire ?
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I have a funky in the shop for knocking in, strikes me as freshly made (sticker/grip don't look aged)
It's Indian made by the look of it, possibly SS
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Isn't funky cricket a Sponser of Hampshire ?
Thought they had changed a couple of years ago to puma? have they changed back to funky, I'm sure funky are still floating around on cricket-hockey's page somewhere
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Guy at our club knows the funky guy and still gets a lot of his kit from him. They are down Hampshire way...
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Saw a couple of sommers bats floating around the herts circuit last year, couldn't really tell if they were newer though
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Havent heard of Grasshopper cricket for a while
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Think sommers have moved mainly into team wear now not sure if they still make bats softs etc.
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Funky are advertised in Eversley Indoor centre in a display case, so definitely still around
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Yeah, believe Funky are cricket-hockey's own brand.
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Anyone know anything re Reaper cricket.
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Don't think zenith made it far into the 90s, weren't they owned by newbery or something?
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Anyone know anything re Reaper cricket.
reapers still going
Base near Raeding and mostly local business now
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Funky still exist I think, I'm sure I saw Sean Ervine of Hampshire using their stuff last season.
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Anything about Redback? They were the must buy bat on here a few years ago.
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Reg Taylor (head bat maker at Spartan) was the head bat maker at Sommers up until probably 2years ago. I'm not sure of their current status.
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Don't think zenith made it far into the 90s, weren't they owned by newbery or something?
Pretty sure they were uk made by Newbury.my mate had one,if the memory has not gone blue circle with yellow Z on the front sticker?
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Redback are still going strong. I've been in contact with Gary recently and I've got a bat coming from him at the end of the month. Top quality brand, Gary makes some of the best bats in the business in my opinion.
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Who are all of these brands? Ive only heard of funky
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Funky still exist I think, I'm sure I saw Sean Ervine of Hampshire using their stuff last season.
Sean Ervine's nickname is Slug, and I know he had some connection to Funky, that being why there was a range of bats called The Slug
Ervine changed to Spartan last year though so I'm not sure what happened to Funky after that
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Sean Ervine's nickname is Slug, and I know he had some connection to Funky, that being why there was a range of bats called The Slug
Ervine changed to Spartan last year though so I'm not sure what happened to Funky after that
Shows how up to date my knowledge is :)
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Funky are still going strong. It's Cricket Hockey's own brand. Do a full range of bats and softs and sell a lot of junior kit around Wilts/Dorset/Hants. Funky also does hockey lit. https://www.cricket-hockey.com/. (https://www.cricket-hockey.com/.) Sean Ervine's deal expired at the end of 2014 and wasn't renewed
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reapers still going
Base near Raeding and mostly local business now
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Player at Kidmore End makes them. My old man knows him as well as the guy at Gentleman and Players at High Wycombe (yes he knows everybody in Bucks/Oxon/Berks involved with cricket and rugby).
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Player at Kidmore End makes them. My old man knows him as well as the guy at Gentleman and Players at High Wycombe (yes he knows everybody in Bucks/Oxon/Berks involved with cricket and rugby).
Think the fellow who makes the bats name is Tom Sheldon
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Kicking Horse?
Currently fighting a nasty legal battle with those shallow swallowers of pigswill - HS Cricket - in Pakistan. It's touch and go, but I think they'll win it - if so, expect new releases before the season, and I expect they will release the 'Schlong' again.
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Don't think zenith made it far into the 90s, weren't they owned by newbery or something?
There was the original Newbery company in the 80s after John Newbery left GN. After that company went bust, some of his former employees founded Zenith, with John Newbery making some of the bats. After John Newbery's death, Andrew Kember of Salix made some bats for Zenith. Zenith didn't last long, but shortly afterwards, the exisiting Newbery bat company was formed. I think Chris Cowdrey used Zenith bats when he briefly captained England
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There was the original Newbery company in the 80s after John Newbery left GN. After that company went bust, some of his former employees founded Zenith, with John Newbery making some of the bats. After John Newbery's death, Andrew Kember of Salix made some bats for Zenith. Zenith didn't last long, but shortly afterwards, the exisiting Newbery bat company was formed. I think Chris Cowdrey used Zenith bats when he briefly captained England
And Phil Tufnell in an Ashes in the early 90s, I think.
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There was the original Newbery company in the 80s after John Newbery left GN. After that company went bust, some of his former employees founded Zenith, with John Newbery making some of the bats. After John Newbery's death, Andrew Kember of Salix made some bats for Zenith. Zenith didn't last long, but shortly afterwards, the exisiting Newbery bat company was formed. I think Chris Cowdrey used Zenith bats when he briefly captained England
I wasn't too far out then, only remember the brand because I had a zenith bat cover, bought from VKS when I was an U11 at Wycombe House. How time flies.
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Zenith if I'm not mistaken was 3D cricket own brand with the late Tom Gravenny as brand ambassador
Also correct about cricket hockey and funky is Jamie Harvey he is a bloody nice bloke played with him a couple of times think that was his full name
Great topic
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Re Funky - yep it's Jamie Harvey along with Mike and Christian Pain. Top people. They also run the shop at the Aegeas Bowl. Very good service and all involved with local cricket.
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And Phil Tufnell in an Ashes in the early 90s, I think.
I thought so - here is a great video showing that most English of things, vainglorious failure... And Tuffers, the plastic cockney, using a Zenith bat.
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I thought Zenith was a Newbury sub brand as the Z on the sticker was at a weird angle so that when you held it at 90° it looked like a N. On the Salix website it says AK used to make them.
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Think the mighty Devon M also wielded a Zenith. Reckon they were front runner to the Adidas Pellera colour scheme!
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Redback are still going strong. I've been in contact with Gary recently and I've got a bat coming from him at the end of the month. Top quality brand, Gary makes some of the best bats in the business in my opinion.
They were popular on here for ages for good reason! They were excellent responding bats and only ever came across one Redback which wasn't great! Tried quite a number and they were pingers! Still have one in my collection! Nice to know that Gary is still going!
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Yeah, believe Funky are cricket-hockey's own brand.
Correct
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I thought so - here is a great video showing that most English of things, vainglorious failure... And Tuffers, the plastic cockney, using a Zenith bat.
Correction - here is a great video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2GXi-qWoXc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2GXi-qWoXc)
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:D that was awesome!!!! cheers for posting it!!!!
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i miss woodford
i had some right buckskin pin tucked canvas pads from them
and Bryan
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Open Championship - one DG Gower promoted them I think.
Holt & Haskell - Mainly softs I thought
Easton - who made their bats, I had a couple of crackers from them
Also - branding changes - I loved the old Aero stickers for bats, I wish you could still get them. I think Goughy once rocked Asics stickers on his bats.
I used to like the M&H stickers that were all wavy across the back of the bats, Puma retro stickers,
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Easton distribution and manufacturing rights were bought out by aero. So anything that was Easton became aero , they all probably have been bats as they had/have there own soft style.
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Holt & Haskell - Mainly softs I thought
Holt & Haskell is the name of a sports shop fairly local to me. They used to do their own range but you don't see many about any more. I'll have a look next time I'm over that way.
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Centurion from wickford Essex my first kit deal was from them this crown made a lot of there bats
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Centurion dean how I remember them I know roger Harper was sponsored by them weren't they from byfleet ???
The calypso graphics and colours yeah I remember them
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Think that Centurion let Courtney Walsh use their bats on tv! Had the best leave in test cricket and was a great great bowler! However batting....
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Yeah! I remember Centurion - I had one of their bats and it was quickly snapped up by a West Indiam club member! Great graphics and shown off by Courtney and Dev!!
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Senior Counties? Seemed to be real popular in the men's teams when I was a lad. Think they were maybe made in Bridlington?
think they only got popular round the Yorkshire area though around mid 80's .
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Yeah! I remember Centurion - I had one of their bats and it was quickly snapped up by a West Indiam club member! Great graphics and shown off by Courtney and Dev!!
They use to have two lane net use be able to go down and use it and remember feeding clayton lambert on the machine and 90 mph and he smashed one back and took me clean of the ladder all ended well got a some new kit lol
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Yes I had a centurion too, my one was a bit of a plank, iirc, I think possibly they were BDM made, as I remember the burnt in English willow stamp on the back near the toe. Are stac still going. Had a couple of beauties from David.
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I believe Stac are still going strong - @Seniorplayer may be the one to ask about them.
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Stac is still going strong one of the lads knows him well David Banks I believe. Tam are BB still producing there kit? Been very quiet of late. Anything new expected?
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They use to have two lane net use be able to go down and use it and remember feeding clayton lambert on the machine and 90 mph and he smashed one back and took me clean of the ladder all ended well got a some new kit lol
Yeah Clayton used to pedal the Centurion gear at our club whilst he was pro. I think there's still a couple of pairs of gloves / pads in the garage.
Did I see they've made a bit of a come back this year on eBay?
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Cheetah Cricket was the other one that was popular in our area at the same time (early 90s)
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Kalli, as used by Jack Russell?
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And Gus Fraser!
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Yeah Clayton used to pedal the Centurion gear at our club whilst he was pro. I think there's still a couple of pairs of gloves / pads in the garage.
Did I see they've made a bit of a come back this year on eBay?
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i think they were but Neil the owner past way last summer
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I believe Stac are still going strong - @Seniorplayer may be the one to ask about them.
Stacs owner used to open the batting with me he also coaches at my colleges cricket academy STAC is based at Stourbridge CC.
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Saw stac recently in purple stickers, not a bad stick
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Classic Bat Co was one of the first adult bats I bought my self a butterfly if I remember correctly lots of my mates thought they where great as they sponsored anybody with promise or knocked a bit of money of the price they also made the biggest coffin ever I think
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Classic Bat Co was one of the first adult bats I bought my self a butterfly if I remember correctly lots of my mates thought they where great as they sponsored anybody with promise or knocked a bit of money of the price they also made the biggest coffin ever I think
run by John Courtney out of keynsham cricket club, half way between bath and bristol, did a lot of sponsorship in the west country when i was young, as did centurion (half the avon/somerset guys i played against had centurion) - got quite a few guys at glos ccc to use his stuff i think - even remember chris broad using it (not sure if that is good or bad)!!!!!!