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[nirmal]

Hi Guys,
             Does anyone know how much percentage of moisture should be there in a finished English willow cricket bat?

[Seniorplayer]

Ten percent is the ideal content.

[SteffanLangholz]

Have a look in these results. :-)
https://www.google.dk/search?q=site:http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php+moisture+content&gws_rd=cr&ei=GvKZWPKADeOU6AT2mIDgBA

[nirmal]

Can you post something easily we could understand

[Seniorplayer]

Can you post something easily we could understand

the finished cricket bat ideally needs to have
Ten percent moisture  in it.

[adb club cricketer]

Anyone knows what is approximate moisture content of english made bats say newbery/GM vs indian made e.g. SS.

[nirmal]

Thank you Senior player.

[nirmal]

As far as SS bats their Top quality bats are made of English willow.Grade 1 and Grade 2 are either Canadian willow or EWNI,and moreover they are not naturally seasoned and they are bleached.Initially the bats will perform maybe for a season that's it.They don't care for moisture content or quality.

[adb club cricketer]

Just curious of the moisture content differences between Indian and UK bats as SS bats turn out huge profiles at 2-10 weights consistently...

[nirmal]

I want to be realistic Dan,I've used a lot of Indian made SS bats,till 2000 their press and quality was good.The problem with our youngsters is that they looking for bigger blades,they are not aware and I think they don't have much knowledge about cricket bats.Nowdays you can see many of the cricket bats looks like sachin bats.You have to understand that each was using anything between 1260 gms and 1360 gms that's a over sized cleft.Nowadays the bats looks very big with more than 40 mm edges with big toe and shoulders under 1170 gms to 1200 gms.What does this apparently mean? I'M not telling here SS is bad,people have to have a knowledge about bats.

[nirmal]

According to cricketer's mentality bat makers have changed and compromised on quality which is bad.That's not good for the bat maker as well a buyyer.