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[Vantage_Cricket]

I didn't own that many bats as a kid, I had a slaz v500 - the claret and blue one, pretty nice bat and was still going strong for a bit of garden cricket until last year.

I always wanted a massive hunts bat when I was younger, a lot of other kids had them and they were huge compared to my slaz that I had.

[smokem]

Gray Nichols Dynadrive - this is about to change...
Slazenger V100 5 Star - with old school stickers as used by Viv Richards, then Mark Waugh
Duncan Fearney Magnum

[tim2000s]

Gray Nichols Dynadrive - this is about to change...
Slazenger V100 5 Star - with old school stickers as used by Viv Richards, then Mark Waugh
Duncan Fearney Magnum

These were all bats that were around when I was at school. Loved the Dynadrive, though the V100 looked classy, but when I used my mate's it was terrible and another friend had a Magnum. It picked up like a railway sleeper but went like a bishop in a brothel.

[Manormanic]

Surridge Turbo 333.  I would say a Kookaburra Bubble, which is the bat I would most like to see released as a Retro edition now, but the Turbo was the doggies when I were a lad!

[jimba101]

The 2 that I can think of are a gray nicolls longbow and the hunts county with the honeycomb in the back? Modulas maybe?

[Manormanic]

The Modulus were awful though - used to get dirt in the crevices!

[Number4]

I think I owned most of the bats I wanted as a youngster.

GN100 Scoop
County Clipper
GN Powerspot Classic LE
GN Elite LE
GN Ultimate 1000 LE

The only other bats I remember admiring were the SS Jumbo & Turbo

I copied my favourite player back in the day... David Boon

[Manormanic]

It picked up like a railway sleeper but went like a bishop in a brothel.

played a village game a couple of years ago when on holiday with the Missus and had to use kit from the team store.  In amongst which was a Magnum that weighed about teh same as your average railway sleeper and was the colour of straw that had been trampled in mud....

...never seen a cricket ball fly off the face as well though! 

[sfa82]

One kid had a GN Scoop 2000 at our club when I was a junior and I remember being amazed when I first saw it. One I also remember wanting was a Hunts County Clipper which went really well.

[tim2000s]

The Modulus were awful though - used to get dirt in the crevices!

I tried to buy one of those in about '98 but Hunts had stopped supplying them because the honeycomb kept cracking and falling out.

Surridge Turbo 333.  I would say a Kookaburra Bubble, which is the bat I would most like to see released as a Retro edition now, but the Turbo was the doggies when I were a lad!

Another mate (who was our opener) had one of these. I remember the toe getting wrecked on a wet pitch. It was another like the magnum, railway sleeperesque in pick up but amazing performance.

[charlie15]

It was the Dynadrive for me, which I've now rectified! I had a V12 and a DF magnum, both went beautifully.  Prior to that I think I was using a G&M with green and blue stickers, but my memory doesn't go that far back!

[tim2000s]

It was the Dynadrive for me, which I've now rectified! I had a V12 and a DF magnum, both went beautifully.  Prior to that I think I was using a G&M with green and blue stickers, but my memory doesn't go that far back!

So that could be any eighties GM then!

[smokem]

These were all bats that were around when I was at school. Loved the Dynadrive, though the V100 looked classy, but when I used my mate's it was terrible and another friend had a Magnum. It picked up like a railway sleeper but went like a bishop in a brothel.

Loved all those bats. One "top end" bat I did manage to own was a Symonds Tusker Grand Monarch. A local sports store was selling it for AU$100, when most top end bats were going for AU$250. So I snapped it up. This was the model used by Mark Taylor. It too was a railway sleeper that packed a punch.

[Red Ink Cricket]

my bro had a kook big bird model. absolutely massive and weighed nothing. faced cracked up pretty quickly but it flew until the day it died. lasted about 5 years then we turned it into a middling bat.

i had a old gm cannon, bottom heavy but pinged, also went through a GN phase with a stonker of a 5 star millenium, a rapier and a carbo longbow.

[smokem]

Someone in Oz snap this up!!!
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/tranmere/other-sports-fitness/cricket-bat/1011024326

I'm pretty sure Viv Richards used this when he first went to Slaz, before the V100 5 Star came out.