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[Manormanic]

On topic, Dravid has been bowled in three times in the first two Tests of this series. Still a great player, but does this suggest he's waning after a wonderful "indian" summer in England?

statsitically no - he's always had an unusually high percentage of bowled dismissals.

[yvk3103]

yvk3103 did you manage to pick up anybody elses bat?

Rohit Sharma, Parthiv Patel, MSD and Raina.

MSD's bats are massive but had a light pick-up due to him putting 3 grips on it. I would say possibly 2.13 bat weight.

Raina's bats were too bottom heavy for my liking and probably explain his big hitting as he manages to get the fast pendulum movement.

Rohit's bats were class, sweet bats 2lb9oz and very very nice.

Parthiv Patel's bat was too big for him, said it was for T20 and he would use 2-3 oz lighter for 50 over or test.

I feel every cricketer i spoke to (except Rohit Sharma and the tail-enders) have bats with varign pick-up and weights and that explaing everyone carrying 5-7 bats in their kits.

Think Praveen Kumar, Munna (Munaf Patel) and another guy were using MSDs bats which he either weeded out from his kit or the guys just took it (as they say MSD is a sucker for bats) Raina picks up lot of MSD's bats from SG also.

Honestly, not many great looking bats, but all were performers and almost all the ones used had nice indentations on the blade (and edges), surface cracks and open grains.

Any guesses who carries the most bats in his kit in the current India team?

[yvk3103]

statsitically no - he's always had an unusually high percentage of bowled dismissals.

Maybe because he plays late and close to his body and if there is late movement he is a goner?

[thedon]

i would say either msd or kohli?

[yvk3103]

i would say either msd or kohli?

MSD had 7-9 in his kit Raina has about 7, but some of MSD's bats can also be found in some lower order batsmans kit bag, so he technically  carries 10+ bats.

Rohit had 4, wich seems to be a decent number for any cricketer.

Maybe the big hitters need more bats

[armie]

i think that the article proved to be the commentators curse for the wall.

[langer17]

Found this on SG's facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=199853953440120

Looks like Dravid's bats weighed 2lb7.2oz's (1110 grams) for the recent test series against Australia

[langer17]

Another video, this time about Sehwag:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150508450455563

Looks like he used a 2lb10.3oz bat throughout the series.