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[Number4]

Just been watching Victoria Bushrangers v Queensland Bulls in the national one day cup (50 overs) and notice Ryan Broad using one of these bats so I jumped onto their website to check them out and noticed something interesting..

Here is the link... Tell me if this bat is Legal or not???

http://www.gabba.com.au/products/2/

[Ayrtek Cricket]

Why wouldnt it be

[peplow]

are they simply stickers giving an effect??

[Number4]

Well it does say Carbon fibre stickers.... Ricky Pontings bat was just carbon fibre stickers wasn't it?

[Ayrtek Cricket]

yes they are "carbon effect" not carbon fibre as it would be alot more expensive that that if it was actual carbon and wouldnt serve any purpose in such an arrangement

[gabbers]

pontings was graphite i think?

[Ayrtek Cricket]

no ponting's bat was graphite backed i believe which was covering the whole rear of the blade rather than just sections.

[Number4]

How much more was the Kookaburra with Carbon Fibre stickers?.. Not noticably dearer as far as I remember

[roco]

Nice price !!!!!

I can't see them giving a performance increase like the kook graphite back did as they do not cover enough of the bat

[Ayrtek Cricket]

graphite is much cheaper than carbon fibre and used in tennis rackets etc if carbon fibre was used it would drastically improve performance...or at least thats what the F1 boys who make our shells said when we discussed it!

[Ayrtek Cricket]

Either way its only a carbon effect vinyl which is what Simmy used to wrap the dashboard etc of my car so nothing illegal in it

http://www.carbonmods.co.uk/departments/carbon-fibre-vinyl.aspx

[Number4]

Ok so lets say they are Carbon Fibre stickers... I don't if they are or not but they do say carbon fibre not carbon effect... would it be legal?

[langer17]

The 1st grade captain at our club is sponsored by them, and it is very nice gear indeed! I wouldn't imagine they'd have stickers that weren't legal.

Kept trying to post but it kept saying "warning - while you were" etc. Bloody let me post, ahah 

[langer17]

Yay, 7th time lucky, ahah.

[Number4]

Nice price !!!!!

I can't see them giving a performance increase like the kook graphite back did as they do not cover enough of the bat

I'm not too sure about that roco... there were 2 guys on the inventors show over here and they invented a small oval shaped disc that attached to the back of the bat were the sweet spot is and it did improve performance


Carbon Fibre strip not very expensive to do something like that really anyway
http://www.hobbyparts.com.au/store/item/strcf00500300x1000/stripcarbonfibre/