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[Bats_Entertainment]

Certainly made Slazenger.

Obviously!

[Mortimer]

Do players wait till a contract has finished or can they change whenever they like?

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Normally, a player would just let the existing contract expire and then move to the new brand. To use another brand whilst contracted to the original brand could be very costly to the player. The exception to letting the contract expire would be if the original brand got into financial difficulties and missed payments to the player, eg when Woodworm went bust, thus allowing PK and Andrew Flintoff to agree new deals with adidas and Puma respectively.

[Mortimer]

Alastair Brown's father works(ed) for Slazenger. That may have something to do with it.

Mickey Stewart worked for Slazenger after retiring as a player and before becoming a coach

[Mortimer]

Didn't Eric Loxton make some SS bats later on? Seem to remember something about it in Steve James' book?

When SS went bust, Slazenger bought the rights to the SS name, which would explain why Eric Loxton might have made some SS Bats

[Mortimer]

Certainly made Slazenger - Mark Butcher did the same as Brown, SS to Slaz

When did Mark Butcher use SS? I thought he had always used Slazenger, as did his dad

[skip1973]

Joe Burns lasted about 3 months with Kooka, he's an interesting character if you listen to the talk. Kook didn't try and talk him out of leaving.

[Bat and Ball Cricket]

I think it just depends on the player themselves. If you look at the potential de villiers deal with MRF he is waiting out the rest of the contract but I'm sure it's common practice to just follow the money straight away


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I would assume it depends on the details of the contract.
I do a lot of work with contracts and you see termination for convenience clauses all the time.
You can also have penalty based termination clauses. Something like 'client can terminate contact at any time. On termination, client will reimburse company 25% of total monies contributed to client.'

[Johnny]

And I'm sure she that does happen it's more likely that the new brand will stump up the cash, not the player themselves.

[Bats_Entertainment]

When SS went bust, Slazenger bought the rights to the SS name, which would explain why Eric Loxton might have made some SS Bats

Yes, sounds right. I think the Steve James story was along rthe lines of him finding an SS bat he liked in a sports shop and re-stickering it as a Slazenger - he noted the irony of it being made by the same person who made his Slazengers.