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[SAF Bats]

I like the idea of 2 magazines doing different tests, one with pros the other with punters. The suggestions made to AOC would also apply to Wisden. Would also like to see the ultimate best bat from Wisden in addition to the categories.

Both are fantastic ideas though and provide a valuable insight into brands and their bats. It must be particularly time consuming for these magazines to compile and sort out the reviews, which I'm incredibly appreciative of.

Genius

An Oscar thread will be starting in a min

[sykesy]

sorry not to have replied sooner

tom, thanks for your suggestions, in reply:

- we found throw downs to be the quickest way to effectively test 40 bats with 5 batsmen over the course of 3 hours
- road test: we did suggest this at an editorial meeting a while back, and actually started one, but it fell by the wayside - i will investigate
- spec bats for each players: this would obviously be preferable but again, is not practical when we're testing 40 bats for five players (and that's only the shortlist). we did ask players to consider that some batsmight not be made to their spec
- punters as well as pros: this is something we have done in the past, and it worked well. this year we decided to use pros only, but next year who knows...

ayrtek - i take it you found a copy?

for anyone who has not seen the test yet -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltp3u9XYO48

and certificates will be in the post soon!