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General Cricket => Latest Matches => Topic started by: Mattsky on April 05, 2019, 03:53:10 PM
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Thought it might be nice to feature bats we've spotted from independent boutique podshavers in the hands of some pros.
So kicking off the County season, Hampshire's Sam Northeast seems to be enjoying the runs his Keeley Worx is already bringing him...
(https://i.postimg.cc/HnXY9bZd/Northeast-Keeley.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Ryan Patel scored a ton today
(https://i.postimg.cc/FH0wGksd/IMG-20190405-162339.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Think Keeley may not be quite so boutique as many players will use TK stuff... was Newbery seen as boutique when TK made bats for them?
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Think Keeley may not be quite so boutique as many players will use TK stuff... was Newbery seen as boutique when TK made bats for them?
The own brand keeleys are boutique
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Rob Newton, Spyder
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Between us, we probably know what we are going to see, don't we? Half a dozen B3s, some Kippaxes at Yorkshire and elsewhere, H4Ls at Kent, a couple of Bears (Will Rhodes and Johnny Tattersall)... Lewis Hill with Hunts County at Leics., Adam Rouse wirh Chase...
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Does Newbery count?
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Anyone using Salix or Hits Hard?
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I saw Azhar Ali using Keeley in nets at Somerset
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I saw Azhar Ali using Keeley in nets at Somerset
Dom Bess too
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Vasconcelos using M&H; Newton with Spyder.
(https://i.postimg.cc/HsKsRPGc/3-A449-E0-E-BB5-A-4-B31-8-B2-B-39-ECFB9727-F1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/9fHXFRQc/CEEEA2-E7-BE4-E-4-A12-B8-C4-549-E3086-E51-F.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Wonder where the bats that Newbery sent Alex Wakely came from?
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I saw Azhar Ali using Keeley in nets at Somerset
He's using a Keeley in the game as well. Interesting as he just singed for MB a few weeks ago - https://www.instagram.com/p/BvU9KhkB0S1/. (https://www.instagram.com/p/BvU9KhkB0S1/.)
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I saw Azhar Ali using Keeley in nets at Somerset
Yep asad at uzi sports told me that they sorted him out
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(https://i.postimg.cc/T29W7LrL/IMG-20190407-131259.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/c6vH6Jk0)
Woodstock, woodworm combo
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Quinn ‘using’ his Vulcan.
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Didn't look like he's using it much in that photo ;)
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Didn't know Darren Stevens was with Keeley.
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Stevens was with Keeley last season, though think he's been using their bats a while. Salix have never sponsored players, last I remember was Sam Northeast when he first started at Kent - Tammy Beaumont is the only higher profile cricketer I've seen using one.
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Stevens was with Keeley last season, though think he's been using their bats a while.
Yes, I realised I was late on the news when I looked on the Instagram. I did watch Kent at least once last year too.
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Samit Patel using woodworm and not GM is just wrong.
Fact.
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Is Ravi officially with Keeley now? He batted very well, apparently.
Also, I see forum favourite Gary Ballance got a hundred with his trusty, I mean new, Kippax.
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Still with Ton
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But with Warsop Stebbing pads!
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But with Warsop Stebbing pads!
Wasn't he with them when he broke into the England side (all those years ago)?
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Need to see more pics of proof on here.
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Wasn't he with them when he broke into the England side (all those years ago)?
Yes, he was. He was rumoured to have had 50+ bats off them one year.
Not sure there is anyone in the Essex team with them now.
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Mark Cosgrove is with Newbery, it seems. Another Spartan refugee? I remember him using Redback when he first came to UK and there was a bit of a buzz about that brand.
Also on Newbery's Instagram is a video of Paul Horton's bat being made. I recognise the batmaker! I wonder if he does all their pro issues?
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Mark Cosgrove is with Newbery, it seems. Another Spartan refugee? I remember him using Redback when he first came to UK and there was a bit of a buzz about that brand.
Also on Newbery's Instagram is a video of Paul Horton's bat being made. I recognise the batmaker! I wonder if he does all their pro issues?
Redback were huge. What happened to them?
Still like warsop. Got a Merlin a few seasons back. Great bat.
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Mark Cosgrove is with Newbery, it seems. Another Spartan refugee? I remember him using Redback when he first came to UK and there was a bit of a buzz about that brand.
Also on Newbery's Instagram is a video of Paul Horton's bat being made. I recognise the batmaker! I wonder if he does all their pro issues?
is it everyone's favourite grumpy YouTuber!?!?!?! :D
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Indeed. I asked that question on Newbery's Instagram feed. No response...
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Ironically, I think Ravi B might have used Morrant Ultralites when he was with Warsop.
I wonder how the pros get on with Paul's bats.
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Looks like Maxi is using New Balance pads here?
https://www.facebook.com/LancashireCricketOfficial/photos/a.10152211062516609/10156832913711609/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/LancashireCricketOfficial/photos/a.10152211062516609/10156832913711609/?type=3&theater)
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Dent at Gloucs uses a Phantom and Benny Howell a Woodstock i believe.
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Dent at Gloucs uses a Phantom and Benny Howell a Woodstock i believe.
Thanks for answering the question I was about to ask. (Picture of Dent on Cricinfo.)
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Dent at Gloucs uses a Phantom and Benny Howell a Woodstock i believe.
Quite a few smaller company sponsors in the Glos squads, nothing genuinely interesting though I don't think.
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Nick Selman of Glamorgan has started his own brand called Dark Horse. I suspect they are B3 bats, since he was
with them last.
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Nick Selman of Glamorgan has started his own brand called Dark Horse. I suspect they are B3 bats, since he was
with them last.
Based on The shoulders I recKon they are made elsewhere - https://www.instagram.com/p/BrmlsNMhPZB/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/BrmlsNMhPZB/)
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Nick Selman of Glamorgan has started his own brand called Dark Horse. I suspect they are B3 bats, since he was
with them last.
I know nick quite well from out in Australia, his bats aren't B3s but are a very well renowned bat maker
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Erm, Luke Wright scored a blistering 166 on TV with a Keeley? Not worth mentioning?
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You just did
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B3's presence in county cricket seems very thin now.
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B3's presence in county cricket seems very thin now.
It’s a shame that, since getting a bit more press as captain, Mullaney has moved over to G&M. I always thought that was a nice partnership. I missed TKC batting yesterday (as did anyone else who was 5 minutes late to Trent Bridge) but I assume that he’s still with B3?
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Billy Godleman's liking his Kippax. Three hundreds last week!
Are England allowed to pick Derbyshire players nowadays?
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Will Beer wielding what looks to be a retro Newbery Master in a heroic last-stand match-winning effort against Essex.
Can't be many of those around the County circuit?
(https://i.postimg.cc/sg7kPvcs/Will-Beer-Sussex.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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A few of the Sussex boys are using them it’s their 100 year anniversary they bought those stickers back for it
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Can you purchase the Retro stickers anywhere?
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Can you purchase the Retro stickers anywhere?
Ive messaged newbery to find out with no reply
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Sorry if i missed something but how come Keely all of a sudden is the new Gray Nics sponsoring lots of new players this year? Investment or all those years of TK making other peoples bats proving it was worth it?
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William porterfield using hawk in the odi
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I was at the Leicetershire vs Warks game yesterday and there were a few B3 in use and a couple of the Bears were using Sypder bats
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I was at the Leicetershire vs Warks game yesterday and there were a few B3 in use and a couple of the Bears were using Sypder bats
A few lads have recently come through the Staffordshire - where Spyder are based - set up to make it on to the Warwickshire books. Always been decent kit for the price
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Will Beer wielding what looks to be a retro Newbery Master in a heroic last-stand match-winning effort against Essex.
Can't be many of those around the County circuit?
(https://i.postimg.cc/sg7kPvcs/Will-Beer-Sussex.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
I saw David Weisse's being stickered up before his 92 not out against Surrey. I think I posted this on another thread.
It's not really Newbery's centenary, is it? Len Newbery may have started making bats a hundred years ago, but the brand was born in the 1980s.
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I was at the Leicetershire vs Warks game yesterday and there were a few B3 in use and a couple of the Bears were using Sypder bats
Not forgetting Lewis Hill's Hunts County and Tom Taylor's unbranded...
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Happy hour in the CBF bar with two Keeleys at Lords at the same time in a final on Sky Sports!!!
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Samit using a keeley vs Kent (seen on notts insta story)
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The 43-year veteran Kent willow wielder Darren Stevens has just thumped a record 237 with this cheeky number.
Hope for us old timers yet...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/49709186
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/49709186)
(https://i.postimg.cc/0Q9s8NZZ/108830622-shutterstock-editorial-10415180ac.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)