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[Talisman]

Never heard of it Morty, got any more details?

[Huckster]

The Galaxy had a sticker that was black at the top with the traditional Gunn and Moore green and blue underneath. It had a carbon handle but not sure if it was spliceless.

[Mortimer]

I've got a GM advert from a 1981 issue of WCM. It shows a picture of the bat, and it does not appear to have a splice.

Also, the from the  description of the handle, a glass fibre core, then a layer of "shock absorbent matrix" and finally "hyper-sprung extruded polyastra";  doesn't look as though it could be shaped into a traditional spliced handle shape.

[Talisman]

I believe that the handle concept was abandoned as the handle kept snapping out of the shoulders.

[m4ttc]

Anyone got a Newbery Excalibur shoulderless bat as use by big Lance Cairns when he hit a one handed 6 at the MCG in 1983?

[Mortimer]

The Hi-Tech bat is spliceless and must be at least 15 years old, but possibly up to 33 years old - how do i know this, well it's a mike gatting 5 star - so it must have come out somewhere through his cricketing days!

I'd put it between 1983 and 1986; that was the period that Gatting used Newbery bats. When the original Newbery company went bust, he switched to G&M for the 86-7 tour of Australia he led, and for the rest of his career.

[SillyShilly]

1984-1985 to be exact

[m4ttc]

Bat was deffo pre 1986 and if I had to put a date on it, I would go for 1984.

I'm not sure "Fat Gatt" went to GM because Newbery went bust, I thought ge got a big contract when he got the captaincy but I could be wrong.

This was before he tried to lay his long handle in the chamber maid in that Nottingham hotel that cost him the top job

[SillyShilly]

Tim at Newbery said these bats were made between 1984-1985, so good guestimates all round!