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Title: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on July 04, 2019, 09:29:12 PM
Evening all. So with the amount of cricket I’m playing reducing I decided to do the decent thing and clear out a load of kit and then buy some more. Picked up these two bats. Can you guess grade and model? Go!!

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Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: WABH-J on July 04, 2019, 09:35:19 PM
Well pretty hard to tell, and I'm no expert but...

I would guess the one on the right looks in line with what most companies would call a G2. On the left looks so white as almost to be bleached but I think that's the light. One on the left looks like a traditional rather than a flat press so I'll take a complete stab in the dark at a GM Noir Signature for the left...
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: Wickets-then-runs on July 04, 2019, 09:43:00 PM
Blank bat on the left.
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: Komdotkom on July 04, 2019, 09:44:33 PM
No toe, shoulder or handle shots? Makes it pretty hard.
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: InternalTraining on July 04, 2019, 10:57:33 PM
Both are grade-2 bats.

One on the left is an SS. One on the right is a H4L.
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: HellomynameisJ on July 05, 2019, 12:43:25 AM
J.S. Wright & Sons?? ;)
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on July 05, 2019, 07:45:36 AM
Handle if this helps people

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Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: Canners on July 05, 2019, 08:09:30 AM
SS handle to me
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: Dazz on July 05, 2019, 08:16:10 AM
That’s a Keeley on the right! Grade 2 I’d say
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Post by: velvetsky01 on July 05, 2019, 08:22:25 AM
i was gonna say Keeley too
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on July 05, 2019, 08:23:07 AM
Duncan Fearnley grade 3?
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: jonny77 on July 05, 2019, 08:59:46 AM
H4L?
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess
Post by: Alvaro on July 05, 2019, 09:09:02 AM
Dennis Lillee's aluminium bat?
Title: Re: Grade and brand - can you guess- now revealed
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on July 05, 2019, 10:37:20 AM
@Dazz and @velvetsky01 your both right on the brand.

The right hand one is a G2 and the left is G3. Both 2.9 with full profiles and superb performance. A very different initial feel to GM that I have been using for the last 3 years. Picked up both of the these from the The Cricket Boutique. Top level service.

Personal I love how generous the grading is. The G3 is light all sapwood and a tiny blemish, marble effect mark on the edge, 8 grains very straight and evenly spaced.
The G2 has 7 grains with a totally clean face and very straight and even grains. These are perfect for me as I don’t like 10+ multi grain bats. Used the G2 and was going so well with just a single Bola session behind it before I was triggered. Very long middle with the spine into toe and mid placed profile.

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