M and H now, as opposed to years back, is a triumph of marketing and PR to appeal to a certain sense of Englishness and bats handcrafted in Somerset. Cow leather retro hold-all, yes I’ll have two please for 400 quid, one for Rupert and one for Toby.
The problem is bats part shaped by a Sussex batmaker then stickered up and knocked in or imported from India does not quite fit the market they mostly, and I say mostly,appeal to.
They no longer say on their website handmade or handcrafted in England As far as I know and that can only be a good thing.
There’s nothing wrong with importing bats from India providing you don’t say they are made here. Gray Nichols and Newbery have gone the same way.
I had an Original as a teenager and have used an Amplus-probably the best balanced bat I have used-so they do make good bats and some are indeed made in Somerset.
Just not all of them
Anyone can spend their money as they wish but once you have the best grade willow it’s down to the skill of the batmaker, so with prices as high as they are now what extra do you get from M and H or GM or GN for that matter that you cannot get from a small batmaker.
I cannot think of anything.
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