Print

[Vitas Cricket]

One of the Khalsa players had a couple last season but may have just been stickered up. They did have that fibre facing on them though like Clark's...

Taz Ahmed, quite a character! He loves Michael Clarke, he is his favourite cricketer.

He reckons he is mates with the guy who used to either make/deal with (shipping presumably) Clarkes Slazenger gear. And this mate had managed to get him a Slazenger bat intended for Clarke. I've seen it and it was certainly nice, comparable with other pro bats I've seen.

Since Clarkes move to Spartan, Taz's mate has been unable to get Spartan gear, so Taz has stickered up his Slazenger bat with Spartan stickers from eBay. And because he loves Clarke, he got the fibre facing too.

He begs us to get him a Spartan bat every time we see him, he can't understand why they haven't launched in the UK.

It's a shame Spartan are seemingly re-enacting the 'Cartman-Land' episode from South Park. Ie 'look how amazing all this stuff is, by the way, you can't have it'

[IQ]

Whats Khalsa players?

[tushar sehgal]

Whats Khalsa players?

I would guess a team/club named Khalsa and mostly run/played by Sikh players!!!

[Vitas Cricket]

Whats Khalsa players?

Khalsa CC are an Asian Club (I don't want to offend anyone, that's how they describe themselves) in Peterborough, they were relegated from the Cambs and Hunts Premier League this Summer. I hit the last ball of Premier League cricket they will bowl for a while for 4

[IQ]

Khalsa CC are an Asian Club 

that makes sense. Thanks mate.

Coz Taz Ahmed doesn't sound Sikh.

[Vitas Cricket]

all religions seem welcome at the club, Pakistanis and Indians playing alongside each other, including guys of differing religion is nice to see,  especially with all the hatred in the world

[Number4]

Surely it wouldn't be hard to get Spartan bats shipped over there though after all they have shipped them to the US haven't they

[Vitas Cricket]

Surely it wouldn't be hard to get Spartan bats shipped over there though after all they have shipped them to the US haven't they

Yes, this is at vast cost though. The only stockists are in Australia, and with the currency exchanges + shipping, buying Australian from the UK is not worth it financially at the moment.

I know Jason at CSO in America eventually got some legit ones direct from Spartan after ranting and raving about the fakes he got, if that's the sort of hoops someone like me would have to go through to stock spartan then I'll pass.

[i12breakfree]

Any idea why Australian market is soooo expensive ?

[Vitas Cricket]

Any idea why Australian market is soooo expensive ?

I imagine its to do with currency variations. That and the costs of shipping stuff there, it is soooo far from anything else.

Cut down an English tree

send it to India to be made

then send to Australia to a dealer/distributor (in most cases i believe)

dealer then sells to retailer, that's a lot of stages for the price to go up.

When I lived there I noticed things made in Europe, or at least from European companies, like toiletries, cosmetics  or certain 'luxury' foodstuffs were significantly more expensive. So maybe there is a higher import tax on European goods.

[Sykesy51]

The Australian market is only expensive to people dealing in British Pounds and US Dollars due to how weak these currencies are at the moment in comparison to the Australian Dollar.

Prices in Australia and New Zealand have not increased - it is simply that the British Pound and US Dollar have weakened massively.  AU$600 is now approximately GBP400/US$620 whereas in November 2008 AU$600 was only GBP240/US$400.

There is no reason for bat prices in Australia to come down just to stay in line with the UK/US traditional pricing.

As an Englishman now living 'Down Under' I remember a time (less than five years ago) when purchasing bats from the Southern Hemisphere was very popular and incredibly lucrative.  It is simply swings and roundabouts and, if the US sorts it's economy out, then I'm sure things will swap around again.

I hope that makes sense.

[Cover_Drive]

Are there any pics of this Pink bat?

[Jenko]

Yeah I saw that....he has some serious willow crush on that bat!!! How good though....

[Blazer]

Same bat Kingsgrove repaired, again!

I think we should do a bit a batspotting till this bat lasts .

[Riddy]

love those stickers.