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[Bats_Entertainment]

playing around with team mates bats over the years and virtually every bat is dried to a crisp.

It seems that the modern club cricketer often does not oil his bat?  Perhaps because he's been told that pros don't? Perhaps because he can't be bothered?

[Lwesty143]

Can't say I've ever noticed a difference in performance from an over dried bat

[kaartman]

Assuming money is a factor...over dried bats did affect me. Agreed, SS bats ping great right out of the package.
But, none of them seem to last more than a season. Please don't tell me its normal! I cannot fathom how my
SS vertu with lot of scooping weights 2.9 and yet my full profile SS master weights only 2.10.

Going fwd instead of getting a new stick every year for 150 quid I have decided to get a decent hand made bat
from UK that would last little longer and still pay less money over time.

[tushar sehgal]

blog post coming soon on this very topic...... need more hours in the day, has anybody got a solution??

espresso shot mixed with red-bull 4 times an hour starting at 6 PM and 6 AM for 2 hours each day.

[Chad]

I think I read somewhere that overdrying bats does improve performance, but only for a short period. I think their reasoning was that it stiffens the blade, therefore you get more energy transfer to the ball, but you trade off a large portion of the potential longevity of the blade, which could be down to fractures which occur during aggressive drying of the blade, and also just due to the lack of moisture to hold everything together. Could be massively wrong, and completely fabricated this in my head, but that was the general view I got from the post.