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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: uknsaunders on February 25, 2018, 07:42:09 PM

Title: When is a bat played in?
Post by: uknsaunders on February 25, 2018, 07:42:09 PM: When it looks like this:-

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Cracks down the grain.
Title: Re: When is a bat played in?
Post by: 19reading87 on February 25, 2018, 08:11:26 PM: What if you’ve had a bat which doesn’t look like this but goes like sh!t off a shovel?
Title: Re: When is a bat played in?
Post by: Buzz on February 25, 2018, 08:17:08 PM: If you have waited that long for a bat to be ready you have smashed a load of runs out of it.
That bat was ready 2 hours or more ago...
Title: Re: When is a bat played in?
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on February 25, 2018, 08:33:41 PM: Personally for me it’s all about the sound the ball makes when it comes off the bat almost a silent sound and the ball feels cushioned to the boundary is when I feel a bat is really played in having stuck with the same bat for all games last season think personally it does take at least half a season to really get a bat opened up fully along with getting really used to it’s weight and balance etc. I now use nets to prepare the 3/4 bats I am planning on making the seasons match bat and at the end of winter nets go with the 1 that feels the best all round
Title: Re: When is a bat played in?
Post by: uknsaunders on February 25, 2018, 08:34:57 PM: Quote from: 19reading87 on February 25, 2018, 08:11:26 PM
What if you’ve had a bat which doesn’t look like this but goes like sh!t off a shovel?

Your Rob Pack was the only one you kept long enough to find out ;)
Title: Re: When is a bat played in?
Post by: uknsaunders on February 25, 2018, 08:35:55 PM: Quote from: Buzz on February 25, 2018, 08:17:08 PM
If you have waited that long for a bat to be ready you have smashed a load of runs out of it.
That bat was ready 2 hours or more ago...

That's my point. Takes time to get a bat to it's peak.
Title: Re: When is a bat played in?
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on February 25, 2018, 10:12:57 PM: How many on here would disagree?

"It's cracked down the grains, best buy a new one..."