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[smilley792]

Strange one, this is kind of a review, kind of a experiment I thought I'd do last night.


Lad I travel to cricket with left his bat in my car, not the style I use, but as I have an elbow injury, and I've always liked the look off it, I asked if I could use it in last nights game.


His bat

Gm octane 808, used all this season, so should be knocked in
Weight 2.7lb
I added a second grip


My usual bat

B3 bespoke 3stripe
Weight 3.1lb
2grips



Firstly the game, I scored 21off20 balls, including 1 six. And a few 4s. Before being caught by midweek boundary fielder to the longest part of the ground.

Bat feel:- bat felt hard! Almost as if it wasn't knocked in, or not opened up. Mainly to defensive shots or pushes. Some shots sounded awful of the bat.

The six:- Our straight boundary is 81m, it cleared it by about 10m. Bat felt nice for this one, as soon as contact was made, I knew it had gone. Middle is lovely, no vibration through my hands when middled.

Out shot:- was to longest part of ground(from the bottom pitch) boundary about 90m got caught on the line. This was a flick from a leg stump over pitched spinner, felt nice out the bat, probably went to far!!


Overall I was Impressed with the bat, hopefully it will open up abit, and the middle was superb. And I believe the new gms do look good.



Batting with something so light?: - well it was strange, felt like I had a toothpick, didn't feel comfortable when swinging in practice, yet when it came to being bowled at, I didn't seem to notice, was still timing it will, seemed to be hitting the ball when I wanted to.
When defending though, I much prefer a opened up bat, that absorbs the impact abit better.

Will I stick to light bats or back to heavy ones? Who knows, see how the next game goes with my bat to see?





Anyone else just randomly swap bats for no reason?

[WalkingWicket37]

In one of our intra club mess astounds pre season I let the 3rd team skipper use my Woodstock and I used his Newbery TT

The result: he hit 130 odd not out off 90 balls and said it was the nicest by he'd ever used.
I hit 14 and got caught on the line, I didn't like the shorter blade much, but would probably get used to it if I used one a bit more

[stevat]

Did this once, let a Kiwi use my bat a couple of years ago after mistiming one and getting out second ball (of the entire innings - not a good day after that) and he then proceeded to stroke the ball round into gaps with it and played brilliantly before unluckily being run out for 30 odd.

Have used other people's sticks a few times, but alas I've never done well having done so. 

[stevat]

Those Octane's do look nice though.