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[sachin200]

Really? I didn't know that Matrixx had such a bad name.
By the way, I am not sure if just edges are making the difference. I think today's willow-wielders are way too stronger to their predecessors. Increase bat weights and speeds and no fear attitude is bound to send the balls sailing in the crowd. Just over the past decade since T20 came into picture, no one is talking about hitting the ball along the ground anymore. In old days you used to have only a few dominating batters who batted with lesser caution and the world loved them. 4/5 runs an over in an ODI was supposed to be really-really great! Every team had atleast a couple of fearsome bowlers. Now that fear has disappeared!

I just hope that we don't see any serious injury to a bowler because of being hit by the ball since 1. they are in the firing line and closest (even closer than the umpires) to the batter 2. they are generally off balance and not ready when it most often comes back.

[tim2000s]

In the early 00s one of my mates became the UK distributor for Matrixx. Some of the bats were pretty good and I bought one. Mine wasn't one of the good ones but I was able to offload it to an unsuspecting team mate. He really struggled to sell them....