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[19reading87]

He played some club cricket in Cape Town during our domestic season, this was one of the bats he used. As for the butterfly stain, it doesn't seem to negatively effect the performance at all. I also mentioned that this was not a Kooka but a stickered up CA which he probably just picked up for its performance. Hope this makes things clearer.
Yup, Dave van der Walt is the batmaker for Black Widow. He's used to be with D&P but broke away a couple of years ago to start his own company. He has made me an absolute stonker and i have yet to hear a bad thing about any of his custom made bats. You can contact him and he will sort you out. I got the SF lam from D&P, another South African company. The owner got a couple on his last visit to India and i managed to bag an absolute beauty!

Cheers for clearing that up mate which would again show the fact that not all pros use grade 1 willow on looks and like butterfly stains....

[Cys1]

No probs mate. at the end of the day it's all about the pick-up and performance. Many 1st Class players don't get to pick their own bats and have to take whatever their sponsor gives them. i suppose we are in the fortunate position to try and sample bats from all manufacturers.

[tommo256]

Andy Northcote

[19reading87]

Very true mate. Hoe does it go tho? Well?

[Cys1]

Good player! I played with his brother Nick at Van der Stel cricket Club. Is he going to play any International stuff for Italy at all?

[Cys1]

Very true mate. Hoe does it go tho? Well?

It goes like a train! The pick up is very good though and it feels more like a 2'8 that 2'10.
the Ihsan probably picks up the best of the lot and has no concaving at all. might be an even better performing bat that the kooka (CA ). would love to get my hands on a H4L though!

[tommo256]

Yeah he is mate, he is going to some 20/20 thing, he went to hong kong for world cups qualifiers.
He is averaging 120 so far this year

[jimba101]

Hi Guys

Been a little inactive on here the past few weeks but thought i'd post some pictures of my refurbed H4L

This is the bat i used for the whole of last season, probably scored about 750 runs with it, i must add it is as good as any other bat i have used so why get a new one for next season when i can just get it cleaned up!

Matt's refurb service is extremely good. As i've said this bat had a fair amount of use and there were a number of dents and marks which have all been removed, infact it looked that good that i got in trouble with the GF for ordering a new bat

Looking forward to scoring some more runs with it next year now!

Here's a couple of pics (not the best i'm afraid!)

[19reading87]

Looks a great job he's done