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[Visigoth]

Forgive me for indulging in the American penchant for way too much bio and talk. My son's boarding school in Pennsylvania has a cricket club, and I got him this bat, a Templar from Choice Willow. He is an Anglophile and had spotted the bat himself last year. Of course, I said it was too expensive, but I did get him a set of gloves from Choice  with the Cross of St George on them. Shortly after he started in at school his grandfather died. He was very close to him, and cricket was a shared interest. He has kept his grades up, worked hard, AND Choice had quite a "fall sale" on this year so I thought I would get him the bat.





His grandfathers team in Guyana. (left end of middle row)

There was one problem with the bat---I absolutely love it. Now I may have to get one for Dad. I will not bore you with the technical reasons for why it is the best bat I've swung. His is LIGHT 2 lbs 6 oz, so Dad's will need 2 more oz.

[Buzz]

Forgive me for indulging in the American penchant for way too much bio and talk.


There was one problem with the bat---I absolutely love it. Now I may have to get one for Dad. I will not bore you with the technical reasons for why it is the best bat I've swung. His is LIGHT 2 lbs 6 oz, so Dad's will need 2 more oz.

Firstly this is a forum where there is no such thing as too much bio and talk - if anything you haven't put in enough here...
secondly - now you are on the forum your joys of a custom bat will exceed those of your hand made fly fishing rods on no time at all.

I can understand why you like that bat so much!!

[19reading87]

Storys like this put a smile on my face

[Cover_Drive]

Welcome to forum mate! I hope you enjoy your stay here.

Lovely bat it is, very nice profile, low middle.

Looks good stick for 2.6

[tim2000s]

Welcome. Looks like  decent chunk of willow for 2lb 6oz! hope it plays as well...

[mdl_1979]

Looks a lovely piece of willow and a very good size given it is only 2'6

[lexx]

Quality blade and 2'6 is a credit too the bat maker as it looks easily 2'10.Great story and the old picture of your grandfarthers team just topped it off nicely.Welcome too the forum ; )

[Visigoth]

Thank you for the kind and welcoming words, on this thread and elsewhere. I actually popped in to the post office and the bat did weigh in at 2 lbs 6 oz and 3/10ths.
 
 

[peplow]

welcome to the forum, a brillaint story, you're 5 post have been utterly intruiging, better than my 2000 odd put together, i look forward to hearing more from you!

oh and lovely bat, 2lb 6, just how i like it!!

[jonpinson]

Wonderful story, great looking bat...please stick around!

To be honest I get excited when a new member knows what a full stop is these days.

[Nickauger]

Not wishing to ruin everybody's illusions of what is clearly a beautiful bat, but is it a harrow, as it is for your son? Just wondered if that might explain the low weight, big profile. It is a great story though.

[12man]

The bat looks great, nice stickers too, I hope he appreciates it and gets many runs, my lads bat mad and cant wait to get in the districts u9 winter nets
nice story too

[Visigoth]

    Nope it isn't a harrow. He is almost 16 and I thought a full sized short handle would be best in this level of quality---so he could use it for a while. If you go to Choice's website and go to the Templar bat you will see that 2 lbs 6 oz is the lowest possible weight for a short handle adult bat. Their other bats have a starting weight of roughly 2 lbs 8. I think this might be a function of this being more of a top order, singles, shot makers bat. So, they can probably go to town on the concavity and not have the gigantic edges, etc.. . I add a picture of the bat next to other ones to show that it isn't a harrow. It IS very, very thin at the shoulders and top.



 

   

[ca_gold]

Welcome to the forum mate. What school does your son attend?

[Cover_Drive]

Visigoth do you mind if I ask you how did you get into cricket and loved the game of cricket being an American?