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[InternalTraining]

If there all graded the same you have to ask why that one is there?

Is it a performer?
Or is it the other 3 have been downgraded?

Either way, it's the one to have!

You are making your judgement based on process of elimination not by looking at the grain structure or even blemishes?

[InternalTraining]

Depends what you are looking for. Looks, performance, a bat to go from the off or open up later. What's the pressing like?

Ask the bat maker which one he prefers and listen to what he says and see is it in line with your thinking.

Don't fall for, "I listen to what a customer thinks he wants then I tell him what he needs". What he really means is that he's limited in what he can make so can't give you what you want. A long while ago a non-sponsor did this, 'eh fella'?

I did ask the  batmaker's opinion on the cleft he would select for a pro. I understand that nobody here has held or tapped the clefts (neither have I) but nobody chose the cleft that the bat maker thought he'd select for a pro.

[Jaffa]

I did ask the  batmaker's opinion on the cleft he would select for a pro. I understand that nobody here has held or tapped the clefts (neither have I) but nobody chose the cleft that the bat maker thought he'd select for a pro.

So you are asking us to judge clefts on looks and comparing that to the opinion of the bat maker.

[Seniorplayer]

Cleft 3 due to the grains being more promeinent.

[InternalTraining]

So you are asking us to judge clefts on looks and comparing that to the opinion of the bat maker.

Not comparing but getting a broad view of what people think is a good cleft. No right or wrong answers here just curiosity .

[InternalTraining]

Cleft 3 due to the grains being more promeinent.

3rd from left (second from right)?

[Number4]

Number 4

[Optical]

Forget the looks they are all good, so go for the lightest.

[Ragamuffin]

4th from right.

[Hoover]

The one that plays the best and feels the best after making.

[dougydee]

If they have all been graded the same then I'd go for the lightest. If they are all the same weight I'd go second from left.

[amritpremi]

If everything else remains same i.e. Price, finishing, performance, weight, size & pickup I would go for 2'nd from the right only on looks. I would also be interested in the 1'st from left as it has more "Matured" looking grains.

[KIPPERS]

If there pressed and have a hadle ill take the one on the left haha