Print

[beaver5]

I was given this bat by a friend at work. Its a Wisden DG100, assume its connected to Gray Nicholls. Her husband had died over 10 years ago and she was finally clearing out the garage and found this. I decided to see if I could do it up and use it as my net bat this winter. Took a sander to it and found a quality piece of wood underneath the sheeting. Don't understand why they would have wanted to cover this up.






Weighs just 2lb 2oz and about 20 grains. Has gone quite well in the nets, can get plenty of bat speed and one of my mates loves it and uses it every session.

[FvanN]

There is somthing about bats with scoops I really like.

[hell4leather cricket]

Think the wisden name comes from a cricket shop in hastings called 'wisdens' they must of had adeal with gray nics to sell them with there shop name on them ,i have one of these too

[tim2000s]

GN Twin Scoop. Sigh... My best mate had one when we were in the sixth form. Loved it.

[beaver5]

Think the wisden name comes from a cricket shop in hastings called 'wisdens' they must of had adeal with gray nics to sell them with there shop name on them ,i have one of these too

Would you know roughly when it was made? I assume its from the 80's.

[tim2000s]

The twin scoops I remember seeing from about 1986. In about 91 they were replaced by the dynadrive.  The twin scoop had less of a jumbo like cut out at the top of the swell, iirc.

[hell4leather cricket]

i would say mid 80s , doesn't the dg100 stand for david gower? i will ask the guy who gave it me tink he bought direct from wisdens

[Mortimer]

The bat is from late 70s, early 80s. The DG stood for Double Groove. The David Gower link is a red herring, at the time he used GN branded bats, mostly the GN500 Pro Balance, the four scoop model.

[PM7]

Flippin Eck! Thats pretty impressive knowledge Mortimer.

[Talisman]

I'm very upset, I would have paid good money for that bat in original condition, GN ahead of the times again with the fake grains, admittedly not as good as today's offerings.

[Mortimer]

Flippin Eck! Thats pretty impressive knowledge Mortimer.

The advantage of having some back issues of Wisden Cricket Monthly and The Cricketer!

[beaver5]

I'm very upset, I would have paid good money for that bat in original condition, GN ahead of the times again with the fake grains, admittedly not as good as today's offerings.

Oh! Didn't think for a minute that someone might want it or be worth anything to anyone. Got the idea to strip it down from someone on the forum doing it to a gn they got with fake grains. Might use it in a few games this season so won't go to waste.

[Buzz]

I found this in an old wisden and thought... humm I have seen that bat before