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This thread is a load of (No Swearing Please).

I have in my hands a bat with 35mm edges and weighing in at 2.8.

That my friends is a pro bat.

And for our good mate Majid, it has "pro ping".

The only difference between us and the pros is that they put their special bats to better use.

However, if you think for one second that they would use something off the shelf, you are dreaming.

Guys like Strauss and Cook not only select the wood they want, they sit there and WATCH the bat maker make the bat. Matty Hayden, Andrew Symonds etc also do this.

To me that sounds like someone who wants the BEST competitive advantage they can get.

So all the players in the Oz dressing room are stunned at the size of Watsons bat? Well they aren't looking hard because Usman Khawaja is using a GN with 41mm edges!

I have sat there and watched one of my bts being made, i dont see by that happening it makes the bat any better? sure it gave me greater customer satisfaction but im not quite sure how it makes the bat better than one that was made half hour earlier whne i wasnt there?

i agree cook et al will get the best willow........

Vic who was your bat made by?

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Tom please stop posting pics of bats like that ........

im making a mess at my desk

[bigboy]

Vic you've gone bonkers, I am not sure where you get your info from but it's been way off the mark in most cases. Watsons bats are exeptional, Strauss gets his made by by Stu here usually, don't think he flies over each time, and please don't start going on about dvd's again either.

[ppccopener]

interesting thread..not sure where this 'a pro cricketer chooses from 100 clefts then sits there all day while the bat is made' rubbish comes from.
It's completley untrue.
Interesting Vaughny said he could use a bat off the shelf because this happens far more than we think.Most pick up the bat,check it's got 'ping' and if it feels right they take it.
there is hardly any difference between a top of the range venom pro/newbery sps/whatever and a pro bat.
You will get some pro's who want certain things like straight grains or all white wood(tresco) but most are not half as fussy as made out on this forum.

And yes, a pro could pick up your bat(presuming it's a quality grade 1) and bat one helluva lot better with it than you(or 1) can.
The amount of people on this forum and ebay selling bat 'made for a Pro' is just embarrasing.if you want a quality bat go direct to salix/newbery/warsop/saf/any main one and you will get the best -just dont go to a shop and expect to get a deal on a pukka bat.
We all know high quality grade 1's are not over-pressed so if they break the pro's just get another one.

[uknsaunders]

all white wood(tresco)

You mean tresco uses canadian willow!

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This thread is a load of (No Swearing Please).

I have in my hands a bat with 35mm edges and weighing in at 2.8.

That my friends is a pro bat.

And for our good mate Majid, it has "pro ping".

The only difference between us and the pros is that they put their special bats to better use.

However, if you think for one second that they would use something off the shelf, you are dreaming.

Guys like Strauss and Cook not only select the wood they want, they sit there and WATCH the bat maker make the bat. Matty Hayden, Andrew Symonds etc also do this.

To me that sounds like someone who wants the BEST competitive advantage they can get.

So all the players in the Oz dressing room are stunned at the size of Watsons bat? Well they aren't looking hard because Usman Khawaja is using a GN with 41mm edges!

LOL what do you want me to do with the bat you have in your hands? Go suit yourself with it!

I have a Gray Nicolls bat (which I have been told is Cook's bat apparently), MB LE (which is from batch of Shahid Afridi bats) and Laver & Wood ('Pro' one as James/Andy said this is exactly how he makes the pro bats ping wise etc etc).

[Manormanic]

I have a Gray Nicolls bat (which I have been told is Cook's bat apparently), MB LE (which is from batch of Shahid Afridi bats) and Laver & Wood ('Pro' one as James/Andy said this is exactly how he makes the pro bats ping wise etc etc).

On a similar note, a guy I played with at Uni went to a certain West Country batmaker a few years back and picked out a bat he liked, only to be tld that it was for a batch for a prominent Zummerzet all rounder and that, whilst it was for sale, it wasn't recommended as "his bats are usually (No Swearing Please)"!!!

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On a similar note, a guy I played with at Uni went to a certain West Country batmaker a few years back and picked out a bat he liked, only to be tld that it was for a batch for a prominent Zummerzet all rounder and that, whilst it was for sale, it wasn't recommended as "his bats are usually (No Swearing Please)"!!!

haha thats funny

[ppccopener]

haha!! back on the Canadian Willow..

great place Canada,try the CN Tower if you want to cure vertigo-I did!
but not somewhere to get a cricket bat even if forum fraudsters,er,sorry I mean't forum sponsors,are selling them.
read a great quote from Mark Waugh when he was still playing(now there's an Aussie even the English fans admire) and he said,and I quote:

''they send me the bats,I don't bother doing anything to it,smash the s*** out of it in the nets,and if it has'nt busted all over the place I use it in the Test''

marvellous.........

[19reading87]

Personally I think the likes of Matt (h4l), Gary (redback) need to just say a few words on the subject. These are people who are involved with normal people like ourselves and professionals. They will know deep down the difference if any....

If anybody is going to know the batmaker is.

[tim2000s]

Personally I think the likes of Matt (h4l), Gary (redback) need to just say a few words on the subject. These are people who are involved with normal people like ourselves and professionals. They will know deep down the difference if any....

If anybody is going to know the batmaker is.

+ Dan Instinct.

[19reading87]

Yep sorry. I should have said and any of the others out there.

Us non bat makers don't have a bloody clue really. The batmakers are professionals for a reason

[rajesh500]

I can't agree more that we should get feedback from Instinct, h4l and Gary AS they have supplied bats to interbational players. Personally, I think there is no BIG difference between top of the line bats we buy AND pro bats. Its the batsman who makes the difference..

[Alvaro]

why should they?

[19reading87]

why should they?

Why should they what? Know the most? Because they make the bats