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Your First Bat?
« on: May 15, 2011, 09:58:22 PM »
Saw this on another forum, so thought I would post it on here...

What was your first bat? Still have it? Did you love it?


This is my first bat, size 5 Slazenger V500 5Star Pro-Tech. It's seen better days, had it for over 10 years now. When I got it I loved it, however there were still better bats out there as this didn't 'ping' like other bats my friends had. It didn't matter as much as I was more of a bowler back then but I still used to open the batting as well.

Just used for a bit of garden/french cricket every now and again, I should really give it a bit of a clean up really. It used to have one of those meshed sheets over it so I've never seen the actual grains of the bat.



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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2011, 10:06:59 PM »
Harrow GM Purist 606 a la Michael Vaughan. It's about a metre from me as I am now. Will update pictures tomorrow.
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2011, 10:19:32 PM »
slazenger v12 panther kasmir willow what a beast !
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2011, 11:24:29 PM »
Slazenger V800 Panther, thems were the days.
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 11:38:56 PM »
Classic Bat Company (RIP) Limited Edition.
Donated to my club once it lost it's ping and now seems to have sadly disappeared.
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2011, 11:41:47 PM »
The Keynsham company?
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2011, 11:59:32 PM »
Yea that's the one, they had Tresco as their main sponsored player at the time and Chris Broad was heavily involved and actually showed me round their showroom. Shame they didn't have much success as it was nice to have a company like that in the Bristol area.
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2011, 01:02:46 AM »
GN 100 Single Scoop
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2011, 04:07:46 AM »
Full size slazenger v100 still at the parents and was a beauty
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2011, 07:21:10 AM »
GN Powerspot Tufcoat that didn't have a middle. Had it for a season, and replaced it with a Slaz V12 Panther Polyarmour.
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2011, 07:30:01 AM »
The first bat I ever used in a game was a ss turbo 333 Harrow  which felt really heavy at the time...

My first bat was a Slaz V100 armourtec size 6
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2011, 08:00:29 AM »
Think it was a GN Powerspot, Slater signature or something. Trusty old Kashmir Willow!
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2011, 08:19:32 AM »
County Ultimate destroyer. Absolutely amazing for the cost of it. Was great until someone at school borrowed it and managed to hit the top of the metal spring stumps putting a massive dink in the middle. Made a good beach cricket bat afterwards though.
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2011, 08:22:11 AM »
Phoenix Platinum Harrow, was a lovely bat until it felt apart into pieces, but taped it back up (mummified it) with electrical tape, it now feels like it weighs 3lb 5 and is in the shed!
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Re: Your First Bat?
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2011, 08:24:18 AM »
Duncan Fearnley Gold 5 Star was my first bat,
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