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Title: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: nirmal on February 07, 2017, 04:09:14 PM
Hi Guys,
             Does anyone know how much percentage of moisture should be there in a finished English willow cricket bat?
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: Seniorplayer on February 07, 2017, 04:10:30 PM
Ten percent is the ideal content.
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
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Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: nirmal on February 07, 2017, 05:22:31 PM
Can you post something easily we could understand
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: Seniorplayer on February 07, 2017, 05:48:19 PM
Can you post something easily we could understand
the finished cricket bat ideally needs to have
Ten percent moisture  in it.
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: adb club cricketer on February 07, 2017, 06:13:34 PM
Anyone knows what is approximate moisture content of english made bats say newbery/GM vs indian made e.g. SS.
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: nirmal on February 07, 2017, 06:21:14 PM
Thank you Senior player.
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: nirmal on February 07, 2017, 06:28:04 PM
As far as SS bats their Top quality bats are made of English willow.Grade 1 and Grade 2 are either Canadian willow or EWNI,and moreover they are not naturally seasoned and they are bleached.Initially the bats will perform maybe for a season that's it.They don't care for moisture content or quality.
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: adb club cricketer on February 07, 2017, 06:31:09 PM
Just curious of the moisture content differences between Indian and UK bats as SS bats turn out huge profiles at 2-10 weights consistently...
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: nirmal on February 08, 2017, 05:41:45 PM
I want to be realistic Dan,I've used a lot of Indian made SS bats,till 2000 their press and quality was good.The problem with our youngsters is that they looking for bigger blades,they are not aware and I think they don't have much knowledge about cricket bats.Nowdays you can see many of the cricket bats looks like sachin bats.You have to understand that each was using anything between 1260 gms and 1360 gms that's a over sized cleft.Nowadays the bats looks very big with more than 40 mm edges with big toe and shoulders under 1170 gms to 1200 gms.What does this apparently mean? I'M not telling here SS is bad,people have to have a knowledge about bats.
Title: Re: Moisture content in a English willow cricket bat
Post by: nirmal on February 08, 2017, 05:43:53 PM
According to cricketer's mentality bat makers have changed and compromised on quality which is bad.That's not good for the bat maker as well a buyyer.