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Title: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Mfarank on July 03, 2019, 04:07:07 AM
Pictures speaks a thousand words.
(https://i.postimg.cc/2jPhphXJ/Screenshot-20190703-080127-01.jpg)
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: KW9221 on July 03, 2019, 04:23:42 AM
I wouldn’t believe it. All players bat go to their sponsors to get stickered. Are you telling me HS didn’t remove this handle sticker?
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Kulli on July 03, 2019, 05:46:47 AM
Plenty of players carry sponsors stickers and apply them to new bats themselves
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Mfarank on July 03, 2019, 06:09:49 AM
Plenty of players carry sponsors stickers and apply them to new bats themselves
Exactly. Players carry stickers and stamps on them
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: KW9221 on July 03, 2019, 06:56:45 AM
Plenty of players carry sponsors stickers and apply them to new bats themselves
Not Pakistani players. I have seen pictures and know some owners who require their players to bring in their bats for stickers. Shoaib Malik is one of them..
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: InternalTraining on July 03, 2019, 09:48:45 PM
Interesting.

Aren't SS bats over-dried like other Asian brands?
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Yorkershire on July 03, 2019, 09:59:49 PM
Not surprising...

watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNw0hiBF7W4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNw0hiBF7W4)

Malik owners walking about with sticker sheets with Pakistan squad... not sure exactly what is going on... interesting...
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Yorkershire on July 03, 2019, 10:05:26 PM
Ps if you look carefully Hafeez has a HS bat cover...I think  ;)
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: jayralh on July 03, 2019, 10:21:55 PM
Interesting.

Aren't SS bats over-dried like other Asian brands?
My friend has 6/7 years old SS smasher. He does hit massive sixes with it. He is quite strong guy so not sure if it's bat or him.
That bat is not over dried otherwise it wouldn't have lasted this long.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: KW9221 on July 04, 2019, 12:14:00 AM
Not surprising...

watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNw0hiBF7W4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNw0hiBF7W4)

Malik owners walking about with sticker sheets with Pakistan squad... not sure exactly what is going on... interesting...
I have seen many pictures of MB owner applying stickers himself.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Cover_Drive on July 08, 2019, 06:56:48 PM
I know for Pakistani players, the people who have SS/TK bats they take to players who then buy those bats from them and then sticker themselves.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Buzz on September 17, 2020, 08:45:24 AM
(https://i.postimg.cc/nLCR7rvY/20200917-093924.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/PLnQntVP)

Good hundred for Babar last night, not sure whose bat he was using, I know he likes a Keeley, but this looks a beast. About 4 or 5 wide wobly grains and a pin knot!

Original picture... https://twitter.com/_cricingif/status/1306340413608013825?s=19
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: shax12 on September 17, 2020, 08:51:17 AM
Definitely a Keeley bat.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Maverick06 on September 17, 2020, 09:18:56 AM
Johny Bairstow is using a SS bat. Look closely on the edges, there is that S.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: velvetsky01 on September 17, 2020, 09:35:14 AM
Yep I have it on very good authority that it is indeed a TK bat and “borrowed” 😂
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: richyreed on September 17, 2020, 10:08:28 AM
The bat even has some blueish stains on the back. Is there a name for this imperfection? - https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/babar-azam-of-somerset-celebrates-after-reaching-his-century-during-picture-id1272851415?s=2048x2048
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: procricket on September 17, 2020, 10:25:09 AM
its this bat refurbished i suspect see the marks on the back!!

https://ibb.co/9gtchnV
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: procricket on September 17, 2020, 10:26:40 AM
Yep I have it on very good authority that it is indeed a TK bat and “borrowed” 😂

He borrowed it for a while then!
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Buzz on September 17, 2020, 10:28:31 AM
The bat even has some blueish stains on the back. Is there a name for this imperfection? - https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/babar-azam-of-somerset-celebrates-after-reaching-his-century-during-picture-id1272851415?s=2048x2048

Sticker residue
😂😂
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: KW9221 on September 17, 2020, 12:48:43 PM
I wouldn’t be surprised if these pros have bats from different makers. They handpicked from the best everywhere they go..

I have babar Azam bat from keeley which came from babar Azam last year WC batch then I have exact shape by SS said to be made for BA. Both of them are beast. Their ping and feel are unreal
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Alvaro on September 17, 2020, 12:56:14 PM
Johny Bairstow is using a SS bat. Look closely on the edges, there is that S.

Bairstow loves SS. Whenever England last toured Bangladesh is when I first remember his using them.


Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: InternalTraining on September 17, 2020, 02:20:58 PM
I have babar Azam bat from keeley which came from babar Azam last year WC batch then I have exact shape by SS said to be made for BA. Both of them are beast. Their ping and feel are unreal

What's the weight?
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Warneymonster on September 17, 2020, 02:33:13 PM
Bairstow loves SS. Whenever England last toured Bangladesh is when I first remember his using them.

Surprised GN allow this as I heard they were extremely strict on players using GN bats as part of the contract
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: KW9221 on September 17, 2020, 02:37:14 PM
What's the weight?
We two grips, scuff and edge tapes 2.11. The response on those are unbelievable.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: jp2408 on September 17, 2020, 03:03:48 PM
Surprised GN allow this as I heard they were extremely strict on players using GN bats as part of the contract

Zoom in on his edge in this photo... No GN branding but what looks suspiciously like an SS 'S'.

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/jonny-bairstow-of-england-hits-a-six-to-reach-his-century-news-photo/1272815359?adppopup=true (https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/jonny-bairstow-of-england-hits-a-six-to-reach-his-century-news-photo/1272815359?adppopup=true)
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: mo_town on September 17, 2020, 04:27:35 PM
I fail to understand why a player would do that to be honest. As a regular guy watching cricket, all I would see is that Bairstow is playing with a GN bat and Babar is using an HS bat. 90% of the audience will only see that and wont really bother spotting a sticker on top of a handle for e.g. How would that be sneaky marketing?

I do remember in the past Indian batsmen use to play with stickers of automobile companies etc and the bat would have the TON or SG branding burnt on the edges which was an obvious giveaway. But dont think there is any chance of doing that these days.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: InternalTraining on September 17, 2020, 05:35:29 PM
https://ibb.co/wJ1BQ8C

Blade looks shorter than normal...and, above all else, what a nice, big bow!!! Johnny, you rock bruh!!!
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: InternalTraining on September 17, 2020, 05:37:09 PM
We two grips, scuff and edge tapes 2.11. The response on those are unbelievable.

Probably a 2-9 bat with single grip and no extras. Not a lot of wood then.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: Kulli on September 17, 2020, 08:56:49 PM
I fail to understand why a player would do that to be honest. As a regular guy watching cricket, all I would see is that Bairstow is playing with a GN bat and Babar is using an HS bat. 90% of the audience will only see that and wont really bother spotting a sticker on top of a handle for e.g. How would that be sneaky marketing?

I do remember in the past Indian batsmen use to play with stickers of automobile companies etc and the bat would have the TON or SG branding burnt on the edges which was an obvious giveaway. But dont think there is any chance of doing that these days.

Not sure it’s done on purpose tbh. Just laziness or knowledge that 99% of viewers won’t even see it nevermind care.
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: KW9221 on September 18, 2020, 12:05:21 AM
Probably a 2-9 bat with single grip and no extras. Not a lot of wood then.
This is a player bat so it is a big bat
Title: Re: Babar Azam using SS (sneaky marketing)
Post by: avkrish on September 18, 2020, 03:43:31 PM
Surprised GN allow this as I heard they were extremely strict on players using GN bats as part of the contract

I don't think they care. This is something I had noticed sometime back.

(https://i.postimg.cc/kBYp8JS5/CW-01.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/5XZK7snd/CW-02.png)

(https://i.postimg.cc/cvK5Bp7B/CW-03.jpg)