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Equipment => Bats => Bat Care => Topic started by: Guyfawkes on February 14, 2021, 11:55:28 PM
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Following on a little a previous thread about favourite bat stickers. What are people's favourite bat makers logos? Classic Gray Nicholls? Kookaburra? Etc...
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For me The Puma Millichamp and Hall through the 90s (Michael Bevan). Closer to now, the Laver Green Shield.
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Riiight... not a batmaker but nostalgia wise for me Reebok's logo from the Azharuddin times is a 10/10.
Currently there's nothing better than the sticker that Grey Nicholls put on my refurbed bat combined with a white grip.
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Early 2000s GM
2006/7/8 puma
2004/5 GN
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CA. Always so subtle.
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Salix from the mid 90’s when they had the vantage range with a deep maroon shield as one of my favourite ever designs along worth the Kookaburra bubble when it first was released
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Stuart surridge turbo 333 when they were made in Witham Essex use to love going to factory when I was younger lad
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Kookaburra Bubble from the 90's when Alec Stewart used it, 2002 era Kahuna, mid 90's GM, Slazenger from about 96-98.
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Logo wise I quite like the simplicity of the Hunts C black and white logo
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Logo wise I quite like the simplicity of the Hunts C black and white logo
the 70s bats from Hunts with this looked lovely, love the fact they have brought them back too - looks excellent
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Duncan Fearnley
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For me The Puma Millichamp and Hall through the 90s (Michael Bevan). Closer to now, the Laver Green Shield.
Big fan of the Puma Bevan logo
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When it comes to things like this it's amazing how many of us 1st word is 'original' or 'when i was younger'.
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My favourite current branding is the willow twin branding, the stickers look amazing.
I find it amazing how dated a lot of branding looks so quickly.
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Oh also 1990s slazenger branding
What Flintoff used when he first played for England 1998??
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Three stumps Wicket of Fearnley is the most iconic,surely ?
https://images.app.goo.gl/Q4HxsyGkBcdY5NiY8
Loved 70/80`s Slazenger Red Panther/V combo and left fielder would be Symonds Rhino
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Nothing yet for Aldred yet, there has got to be someone who likes the logo.
Warsop platinum silver and black from about 10-15 years ago.
And Salix Pod silver and black from around the same era, maybe a bit earlier.
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Old Newbery for me, circa 2007 - 2010ish Thruxton, carbon handles (with the hint of carbon in them) and of course the Cadbury ones too. Bliss!
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WOODWORM TORCH :D :D
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Warsop Venom for me. When I first came to this country, I used to play in the mid-essex league. Used to see a lot of Warsops, but the Cobra on the Warsop Venom was the best of all.
In Indian brands, SG is the most iconic brand for me logo wise.
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Slazenger in 1980s. All the main brands in the 80s really.
Current GM is quite strong, though I could nit pick about details like 'DXM'. Keeley branding has quite grown on me.
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Symonds (with the rampaging rhino), Zenith, and the simplicity of the early Newbery's with the red and black stripes.
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Zenith were made by Newbery - only ever remember seeing Kent players using them
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Zenith were made by Newbery - only ever remember seeing Kent players using them
and John Carr - an early adopter of a less than conventional technique!!!!
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/john-carr-middlesex-v-australians-at-lords-1989-news-photo/160638154 (https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/john-carr-middlesex-v-australians-at-lords-1989-news-photo/160638154)
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and John Carr - an early adopter of a less than conventional technique!!!!
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/john-carr-middlesex-v-australians-at-lords-1989-news-photo/160638154 (https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/john-carr-middlesex-v-australians-at-lords-1989-news-photo/160638154)
Almost Labuschagne-esque.
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and John Carr - an early adopter of a less than conventional technique!!!!
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/john-carr-middlesex-v-australians-at-lords-1989-news-photo/160638154 (https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/john-carr-middlesex-v-australians-at-lords-1989-news-photo/160638154)
I think I'm right in saying Zenith was started by some guys from my club in Maidstone, hence they got people like Steve marsh involved, also Mark Benson from memory.
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I though zenith was the home brand of 3D cricket ?
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Classic Bat Company (I think they were called) with the butterfly logo
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Anyone remember Open Championship?
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(https://i.postimg.cc/mhS1FHfZ/1992-Gower-Open-Championship.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mhS1FHfZ)
Anyone remember Lazer? I think they were South African
(https://i.postimg.cc/87v6cnT9/161114185501-IMG-4912.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/87v6cnT9)
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(https://i.postimg.cc/mhS1FHfZ/1992-Gower-Open-Championship.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mhS1FHfZ)
Anyone remember Lazer? I think they were South African
(https://i.postimg.cc/87v6cnT9/161114185501-IMG-4912.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/87v6cnT9)
Jacques Kallis started out with Lazer I think - only time I've ever seen one!
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Anyone remember Open Championship?
Gower and the Devon Malcom helmet.
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Classic Bat Company (I think they were called) with the butterfly logo
Apparently their flagship bat was butterfly willow. Must have been a decent mark-up on that? Made by Warsop, I think.
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I think I'm right in saying Zenith was started by some guys from my club in Maidstone, hence they got people like Steve marsh involved, also Mark Benson from memory.
Mark Benson - the leading exponent of the 'Kent leave'. Spectators would clap thinking the bowler had beaten the bat several times in the over. :D
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(https://i.postimg.cc/VJHYMPSx/IMG-1444.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VJHYMPSx)
(https://i.postimg.cc/KKkmDpBR/IMG-1445.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/KKkmDpBR)
Zenith advert from April 1990 with the blurb stating that they were in their third year of trading with a Maidstone business address and a strong Kent backing
The Open Championship range also gets an airing (and for me this would be a contender for worst bat logo!!)
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Ahhh, I can't get enough of vintage cricket catalogue shots - you can keep them coming!
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(https://i.postimg.cc/kVmB4QMy/Cz-QE-fm-Xc-AAXvg-W.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/kVmB4QMy)
Oooh yeah! That's nerd porn that is!
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(https://i.postimg.cc/kVmB4QMy/Cz-QE-fm-Xc-AAXvg-W.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/kVmB4QMy)
Oooh yeah! That's nerd porn that is!
was my first kit.deal I had the Kingston tonned up Frist knock with it even had a one to one net at wickford with Clayton Lambert 7 grips on his bats
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When I was growing up there were a lot of Gerry Hardstaff bats around league cricket.
(https://i.postimg.cc/15CgsqCH/download-jpeg.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Jacques Kallis started out with Lazer I think - only time I've ever seen one!
Funnily enough, my Dad used to import Lazer cricket bats, and Impact cricket bats, from Port Elizabeth in South Africa. They were made by Mick Bellingham, of Bellingham and Smith.
This was the Late naughties I believe in my Surrey schoolboy days!
Dad actually took calls from both Allan Donald and Jacques Kallis when they were in the UK! He said Kallis was extremely polite- which you can see in his interviews!
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the 70s bats from Hunts with this looked lovely, love the fact they have brought them back too - looks excellent
Hunts County Bats didn't exist in the 70s. Back then it was the orignal County Sports, based in St Neots.
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Hunts County Bats didn't exist in the 70s. Back then it was the orignal County Sports, based in St Neots.
my apologies, i was only born in 1978, so thought the ones i saw on old videos were Hunts County, not just County
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Sorry to bring this up yonks later, but I’m hoping the more mature memories will remember a mid 90s logo/bat range with a detailed brown & orange butterfly on the bat? I’m feeling possibly Double B or some smaller independent in that ilk at the time?
Maybe Woodstock if they were around back then.
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Maybe this company:
http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=7588.0 (http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=7588.0)
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Sounds like it must be. I’ll take it as my answer. Thanks very much.
As I ponder on it I also remember the softs looked sweet with the matching butterfly on them.
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As mentioned above, they marketed butterfly willow bats as their top of the range.
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Could it be this one?
(https://i.postimg.cc/g00RtwH0/DCCE83-BC-E038-4-EC6-9422-5-CBF8839-F0-B0.png) (https://postimg.cc/87qjjz38)
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No bat maker sold their butterfly stained bats as their top range! There will be few butterfly bats but not solely butterfly bats in their top range
White willow dominates to ranges.
Cricket Bat Company had their butterfly range but their more expensive top range consisted of beautiful white willow.
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Classic Bat Company did sell butterfly as their flagship model. As stated above, I believe their bats were made by Warsop Stebbing.
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Classic Bat Company did sell butterfly as their flagship model. As stated above, I believe their bats were made by Warsop Stebbing.
I'm sure you've not seen their catalogues!
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I'm sure you've not seen their catalogues!
Have you? Did they even have catalogues? They were a small company that ceased to exist about twenty years ago.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/VJX1gmK7/broad-butterfly.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VJX1gmK7)
chris broad using one after he moved back to Gloucestershire sometime in the 1990s (the guy that owned Classic Bat played for Keynsham Cricket club between Bath and Bristol - as did Trescothick)
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tresocthick using classic bat - not sure if it is a butterfly bat - but he has the butterfly gloves on:
(https://i.postimg.cc/5jbkXvYK/trsco-classic.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/5jbkXvYK)
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I think a young Trescothick is pictured with one in the inside cover of his autobiography.
Both the butterfly and Warsop information is knowledge I will have acquired here. Obviously things said here aren't always correct; but I think I mostly know which people are trustworthy and reliable.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/VJX1gmK7/broad-butterfly.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VJX1gmK7)
chris broad using one after he moved back to Gloucestershire sometime in the 1990s (the guy that owned Classic Bat played for Keynsham Cricket club between Bath and Bristol - as did Trescothick)
If you listen to that picture hard enough you'll probably be able to hear young Stuart throwing his toys out of the pram.
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Have you? Did they even have catalogues? They were a small company that ceased to exist about twenty years ago.
See you got trust issues on here!
Yes, I was in Amsterdam those days and was looking at their online catalogue! They were expensive bats! And they looked really very good!
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I very much doubt they ever had a website.
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Classic Bat Company went bust in 1997. What kind of website did they have back then?
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Classic Bat Company went bust in 1997. What kind of website did they have back then?
Exactly.
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@AJ2014 is correct. They did have a website, @Bats_Entertainment and @Tom.
How do I know this? Because the Founder and Director lists it as such on his LinkedIn profile:
• Set up a new sports brand, which had worldwide publicity for the “Double Sided” cricket bat including front page of The Times, Daily Telegraph plus most nationals and trade press. TV coverage on News at 5.45, Sky Sports; radios 1,2,4,5 and World Service.
• Exported internationally through a network of agents, competing with major brands such as Slazenger.
• Endorsed by Sir Garfield Sobers, Chris Broad and Marcus Trescothick; also used by Brian Lara, Kevin Pietersen, Gordon Greenidge and Simon Jones.
• First Cricket Equipment Company in the world on the Internet with its own web site.
• Finalist in the HTV “You’re The Boss” television competition judged by Institute of Directors.
| Director | Chairman | Founder |
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V impressive for such a small brand, for reference this is how early on in the internet era it was. Amazon's website back then:
(https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/websites/amazon-website/amazon-website%5E1997%5Ehomepage-kiro-tv.png)
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Good bats. I had a butterfly back in the day. Softs were also good. Great couple of chaps ran it from Keynsham. Always made time for customers.
Good article here that mentions them:
https://www.keynshamvoice.co.uk/marcus-gets-set-to-hang-up-his-bat (https://www.keynshamvoice.co.uk/marcus-gets-set-to-hang-up-his-bat)
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That is fairly impressive for such a small company to have set up a website.
As late as 2000, the Daily Mail was predicting that the Internet may be a passing fad and that online shopping wouldn't take off
https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1472675649265545233?s=20
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They did have a catalogue I know because I got 50 per cent offer same as there rivals back then for sponsorship for junior loonies like me Centurion
Trescothick was in the catalogue as a up and coming player butterfly was not flagship they had one other and there butterfly was not made of butterfly willow either
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They did have a catalogue I know because I got 50 per cent offer same as there rivals back then for sponsorship for junior loonies like me Centurion
Trescothick was in the catalogue as a up and coming player butterfly was not flagship they had one other and there butterfly was not made of butterfly willow either
You nailed it! 👍😃
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They did have a catalogue I know because I got 50 per cent offer same as there rivals back then for sponsorship for junior loonies like me Centurion
Trescothick was in the catalogue as a up and coming player butterfly was not flagship they had one other and there butterfly was not made of butterfly willow either
I stand corrected. As I said, was only passing on what I'd previously been told here.
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Guilders was still the currency at that time, that! meant conversion rate was at least 2 and a half to £!
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(https://i.postimg.cc/mhS1FHfZ/1992-Gower-Open-Championship.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mhS1FHfZ)
Anyone remember Lazer? I think they were South African
(https://i.postimg.cc/87v6cnT9/161114185501-IMG-4912.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/87v6cnT9)
Hahaha, I've seen these open championship ones in flesh, wasn't tempted to buy, as I didn't like those stickers, I'm sorry.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/VJX1gmK7/broad-butterfly.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VJX1gmK7)
chris broad using one after he moved back to Gloucestershire sometime in the 1990s (the guy that owned Classic Bat played for Keynsham Cricket club between Bath and Bristol - as did Trescothick)
Defo the bat company I was imagining with the mediaeval font as teenage boy. What a shame I now have the money to finally afford one. So thanks for finding that and taking me down memory lane.
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Defo the bat company I was imagining with the mediaeval font as teenage boy. What a shame I now have the money to finally afford one. So thanks for finding that and taking me down memory lane.
Very true.
Laver and Wood reminds me of them!
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Defo the bat company I was imagining with the mediaeval font as teenage boy. What a shame I now have the money to finally afford one. So thanks for finding that and taking me down memory lane.
They pop up on eBay from time to time.