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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Buzz on November 27, 2022, 10:48:23 PM
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Been seeing a few lovely bat collections on Facebook recently.
Made me think, what would a perfect vintage bat collection need.
DF magnum
SS jumbo
Original GN Scoop
Tusker
An original Newbery Keeley
A screaming cat
An original M and H
GM purist
And then I thought I bet Pete and Chad have both got all those.
😂😂
What have I left off?
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The Lillee aluminium bat
The graphite Kahuna
Something that Bradman, Grace, a corpulent Sussex bookkeeper used from back in them days
An Indian Tendulkar profile - probs BAS made.
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Slaz V12?
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I've got a real soft spot for the Trescothick era GM Maxi, had the tennis ball version as a kid and used to spend hours battering a ball about the garden.
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Woodworm! (From when they were good).
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Ace
Sp
Kook bubble
Gm maestro
Gn powerbow/scoop
And any scat
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A perfect collection for me would be a mix of the old, the current and the next generation of bat makers here in the UK.
Old
Julian Millichamp
Bernie Facer
Eric Liston
Current
Andrew Kember
Tim Keeley
Robert Pack
Matt Barton
Robert James
Paul Aldred
Future
Jonny Scott Cricket
Mark oxfordshire
There will be some more no doubt
To me that’s the perfect Collection in terms of who made the bats.
Mark
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Add Stu Kranz to that list Chris,,
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Add Stu Kranz to that list Chris,,
I’m sure there is many that would go into all 3 sections mate but yes he would certainly be one to add
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GN XP80
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GN XP80
GN Warner big bat
GN Chris Lyns Velocity big bat
GN Legend(?) big bat
It is very unlikely Stuart Kranzbuhler will ever make big bats again. These bats belong in the perfect bat list.
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Feel like we need a Tony Cook bat and a Bernie Facer bat in the collection.
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Anyone remember the Classic Bat Company? They were popular in the 90’s when most of the young cricketing population of Surrey were sponsored by them. They had a butterfly model too which if memory serves was the top end offering. Small bats for the weight
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Anyone remember the Classic Bat Company? They were popular in the 90’s when most of the young cricketing population of Surrey were sponsored by them. They had a butterfly model too which if memory serves was the top end offering. Small bats for the weight
I was recently told I was wrong about the butterfly thing.
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Slaz V12?
Eric Loxton.
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Anyone remember the Classic Bat Company? They were popular in the 90’s when most of the young cricketing population of Surrey were sponsored by them. They had a butterfly model too which if memory serves was the top end offering. Small bats for the weight
Yes! every young player in the Glos/Somerset area was sponsored by them to. I think Trescothick was at one point very early in his career.
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Anyone remember the Classic Bat Company? They were popular in the 90’s when most of the young cricketing population of Surrey were sponsored by them. They had a butterfly model too which if memory serves was the top end offering. Small bats for the weight
i think they were based in the West Country and were possibly used by Marcus Trescothick early in his career
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i think they were based in the West Country and were possibly used by Marcus Trescothick early in his career
run by a bloke called John Courtney - who played for Keynsham CC - which was Trescothick's club as a kid
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This used to sit in my office - a collection of old bats that has some overlap with those named in this thread ...
Some were still in original condition, while a few I refreshed with a quick sand, new grip and stickers.
(https://i.postimg.cc/pVYkg0ZW/Bats.jpg)
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Grains on that scoop!!
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Grains on that scoop!!
It was actually the Slazenger v100 that taught me a valuable lesson about grains - it looked great in the shop, had a nice pickup and feel, and was ... an absolute plank. If it had a middle, I certainly never found it. In contrast, the County had some pretty funky wavy grains and looked ugly, but went like a cannon.
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GN XP80
You wouldn't happen to have a nice one by any chance?
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This used to sit in my office - a collection of old bats that has some overlap with those named in this thread ...
Some were still in original condition, while a few I refreshed with a quick sand, new grip and stickers.
(https://i.postimg.cc/pVYkg0ZW/Bats.jpg)
I've never seen one of those Slazenger Bradman bats. Are they a modern remake or an older vintage edition??
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You wouldn't happen to have a nice one by any chance?
I have two..along with 50+, big kaboom, signature..
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I've never seen one of those Slazenger Bradman bats. Are they a modern remake or an older vintage edition??
Old edition and has seen some use over the years. Nice middle, but not particularly forgiving on off-centre hits by today's standards (for my crap batting anyway :)). Interesting take on the Newbery Excalibur idea in terms of the shoulders.
Unfortunately I can't give too much of a definitive background on its age or even authenticity, as I picked it up in a trade with a kind friend when I needed a bat in a hurry. He had in turn had acquired it from the Cricketers Club in Sydney when it was closing down. It was on display there, but evidently no-one seemed to know why. The story goes it was originally from Kingsgrove cricket store - I've never seen another one in the wild, and I couldn't find out anything about it online. Seen a fair few "99.9", "The Don" and "Classic" versions around, but never another 452.