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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: InternalTraining on April 20, 2016, 01:50:06 PM

Title: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: InternalTraining on April 20, 2016, 01:50:06 PM

Just wondering how often people break their bats beyond repair? Are you seeing terminal breaks in the newer models more than say the older bats you owned ?

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Neon Cricket on April 20, 2016, 01:51:50 PM

Not so much terminal damage, but I'm managing to create a new crack every net session at the moment haha

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Kulli on April 20, 2016, 01:58:25 PM

I hadn't properly broken one until 2014, then i broke three in quick succession (two of which were repairable but not the same afterwards. Since then I've bearly made a scratch on my match bat, which has meant I've built a bit of a collections of 'spares'

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: SirScottiod on April 20, 2016, 02:02:00 PM

I don't think ive ever broken a bat properly, mainly due to lack of batting skill thus resulting in less time at the crease!!

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: shamelessshaun on April 20, 2016, 02:02:37 PM

Only had one suffer irreversible damage and that was a G&M Purist that ended in three pieces, two sections of the Blade and a dislocated handle. Fingers crossed no more suffer anything like that, it was a tough pill to swallow.

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Batbuddy99 on April 20, 2016, 04:42:44 PM

I've never broken a bat before
Being 16 I have only owned 2 short handled bats (one bought this winter) and the first bat is still flying!

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: smilley792 on April 20, 2016, 05:00:37 PM

I've always broke bats.

When you get and I need the full life out of them, taking them to beyond repair happens a lot.
Purist 2, county insignia and reflex, couple of slazenger and a Duncan fearnleyz



Today? Well I have that many bats, I never let them get to far, I will repair a few times then sell in cheap to let someone else have some use out of them.
As damaged as they got is the b3 I sold To @Chad and he has repaired.

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: snackylane on April 20, 2016, 06:41:23 PM

I've made a habit of it over the years,  started with school bats at 14 in the nets and it's carried on since. Averaged about one every season and a half and not all of them have been mine!

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Gurujames on April 20, 2016, 07:05:07 PM

Never broken a bat beyond repair. However, the handle on on h4l snapped at the end of last season and I got it re-handled.

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Slyboogy on April 20, 2016, 07:34:26 PM

Had a SS lying around for 8 years, never really looked after it as it was a gift, usually was kept near my radiator in my room. Lasted me a while until it severely cracked in the middle, only for in the same net session the new CA bat I got had a chunk come off after only 15 balls.

So two bats ruined within 10 minutes.

My MB Malik bat has severe cracking due to someone using a "bat breaker" ball in the nets. A really good bat ruined.

Be good to know if anyone has suggestions for a new bat, I'm currently looking for one now. Preferably for £100-125

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: joeljonno on April 20, 2016, 07:54:02 PM

Only once, with a cheap new ball in a friendly and a square cut hitting the toe, putting a crack in a fairly new bat.

I seem to get more bats damaged by other people than myself.

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Northern monkey on April 20, 2016, 08:50:55 PM

Broken a few whilst playing friendlies with cheap balls.
I have a couple of oldish bats that get brought out if I'm in any doubt as to ball quality

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Sitonit on April 21, 2016, 03:24:15 AM

I don't think I have personally broken a bat myself.
Someone borrowed my CA bat the other day and it came back with a nice chip off the toe side. What can you do? :: cold sigh ::

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on April 21, 2016, 04:50:11 AM

Beyond repair once, dug out a Yorker from a genuine quick that split right up through ute and back of bat but that's it really beyond repair in 17 seasons that I can remember

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: skip1973 on April 21, 2016, 05:18:20 AM

I am a nudger so I don't break many, unfortunately when I loan my nice light bats to other people is when the damage gets done.

Title: Re: How Often Do You Break Your Bat?
Post by: Marc28 on April 21, 2016, 06:03:31 AM

I've broken one bat only
Sunday game two seasons ago dug out two Yorkers from a young lad wanting to be Mitchell Johnson
And my poor kookaburra took the brunt,
Took it back and got a new one as a refurb but sold it on.