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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: willttqs on August 09, 2019, 05:59:02 PM

Title: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: willttqs on August 09, 2019, 05:59:02 PM
Dear all,

I was an avid Robin Smith fan and have pretty much always had a GN bat of one sort or another. I currently use a great one from 2015, a bicentenniary bat i bought when watching england v india at lords.

However, this year they have really disappointed me.

I bought a limited edition unicef bat at a cost of £250. it was one of only 25. however, when i got it, you could see it was an old Kronos bat that had been oiled and re-stickered, the quality of the willow was terrible. i know that 25% of the retail price went to charity, but as it was a bat they were selling for around £150 tops, it seemed that the customer paid all of the charitable donation plus GN were profiting from it. i sent it back for a full refund.

Today i went to a very good cricket shop who said that they were sending back all of the gn world cup bats because the quality was not up too standard.

I think i will be leaving the GN fold and buying something like Keeley or Neon from now on.
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: Alvaro on August 09, 2019, 06:27:19 PM
GN are a crappy brand imo. This doesn't surprise me.
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: Kulli on August 09, 2019, 06:27:52 PM
GN’s top bats are top quality, but they are guilty of using limited editions or retro editions to shift ugly or heavy clefts.
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: Canners on August 09, 2019, 06:39:15 PM
Bought a top of the range shockwave pro performance and it was terrible..... g3 at best and concaved within an inch of its life. I sent it back.

The softs are top notch though
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on August 09, 2019, 08:04:35 PM
The 3 Shockwaves VKS posted on social media were stunning for 5star lite models. Agree on that not the best looking willow all the time but never seen or had a bad one. 5/6 lads use them in our team and all are decent bats
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: KW9221 on August 09, 2019, 09:02:38 PM
Gray Nicolls from Australia are much better quality than UK. I stopped buying them 3-4 years ago. I recently bought few of Australian ones and they are all classy.
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: JB on August 09, 2019, 10:19:20 PM
You get much better value off the smaller makers
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: Sivlar13 on August 10, 2019, 06:26:49 AM
Gray Nicolls from Australia are much better quality than UK. I stopped buying them 3-4 years ago. I recently bought few of Australian ones and they are all classy.

Agreed - Aus GNs are top class.
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: Psi on August 10, 2019, 08:22:11 AM
Dear all,

I was an avid Robin Smith fan and have pretty much always had a GN bat of one sort or another. I currently use a great one from 2015, a bicentenniary bat i bought when watching england v india at lords.

However, this year they have really disappointed me.

I bought a limited edition unicef bat at a cost of £250. it was one of only 25. however, when i got it, you could see it was an old Kronos bat that had been oiled and re-stickered, the quality of the willow was terrible. i know that 25% of the retail price went to charity, but as it was a bat they were selling for around £150 tops, it seemed that the customer paid all of the charitable donation plus GN were profiting from it. i sent it back for a full refund.

Today i went to a very good cricket shop who said that they were sending back all of the gn world cup bats because the quality was not up too standard.

I think i will be leaving the GN fold and buying something like Keeley or Neon from now on.

I was also surprised that the unicef bat appeared to be just the regular Kronus shape restickered. Nothing wrong with the Kronus, mind...
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: Shinpathy on August 12, 2019, 02:24:12 AM
Agreed the GN AUS Bats stands the test of time as being very good bats :D

Kabooms and 50+'s and the XP80's were a thing of beauty
Title: Re: Standard of Gray Nicolls
Post by: tim2000s on August 13, 2019, 10:49:58 AM
Agreed the GN AUS Bats stands the test of time as being very good bats :D

Kabooms and 50+'s and the XP80's were a thing of beauty
XP80s are the dog's, he says, owning two of them...