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[jamesisapayne]

I use an M&H Original High, never had a problem any any type of wicket - the higher middle position helps with pickup and makes playing cross batted shots a lot easier. I love driving (it's probably my strongest shot) and have not problems at all smashing the ball to the boundary with it.

All mumbo jumbo to me really - The more I learn about bats the more i just want to go into a shop, pick it up, if it feels good use it! Simples.

[leeroy]

I've been wondering about this too lately. Would test players use a different bat if they were heading to India to play on pitches that keep lower if they came from Australia with the higher natural bounce?

[BigBlueMachine]

I feel it doesn't matter too much. What about the fact we are dynamic and can change depending on our environment. Therefore for example if you were to use a higher middle bat, over time would you change your technique and adapt to become successful? (Same goes for lower middle bat)

Just a theory.

[uknsaunders]

Another argument is a good bat with a long middle will cater for all wickets and batsman. Why put all your eggs in one basket?

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[Northern monkey]

Get a decent middled bat , that picks up nicely for you.(this is the hard part of bat purchase?)

I would say though, that you will only know how it plays for you, when your out in the middle,on a grass wicket
The bounce on some astro wickets,these days is not a true reflection of a grass wicket.

I think, the sweet spot /bat middle position in relation to shot playing, only becomes relevant when the bat has a small middle

Try using your teams top run scorers bat(If he's daft enough!), and nine times out of ten, it will be an absolute gun

[Bats_Entertainment]

Didn't someone do some research into this? I think it showed that you hit the ball with the same part of the bat regardless...

[Sam]

Personally I feel the wicket does alter where you hit it. I've been playing in indoor nets recently which have some very high bounce and there is a relatively clear difference between the cherries on my bat (which I should probably have cleaned up  ) near the toe from our low bouncing home ground wickets and the higher cherries from the indoor nets.

[uknsaunders]

Try using your teams top run scorers bat(If he's daft enough!), and nine times out of ten, it will be an absolute gun

Lol that would be my gm icon+!

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[19reading87]

Lol that would be my gm icon+!

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But if we include all games, Saturday and Sundays then it's clearly me

[ManHOOS]

Yap defenatly ! We play on artifficial pitches with matings so basically in North we have asphalt pitches with very thin Mats,  which means high bounce so i use a bat with high middle, and when we travel to south they have hard tracks with very thick mats where generally ball keeps low so i take my low middle bats dere .

I feel comfortable 

[procricket]

Pitches Make no difference

Only difference in bats for me is this

Concaved = form bats narrower middle up and down  the blade better pick ups.
None Concaved= More coverage but usually a higher weight mentally look less imposing too.

Higher middles allow for more weight on the bat but better pick up..
Lower middles are simply out of date bats or heavier bats with the middle elongaing through to near the toe.

Asian makers are not just the copiers people will have you think they have been setting the shapes people have been following for a long time now.

We all tend to hit the ball higher than we think we do ..

As per most things cricket related most people have a metal though about bats which is just blown up.

As somebody said to me it is a BAT

[uknsaunders]

Yap defenatly ! We play on artifficial pitches with matings so basically in North we have asphalt pitches with very thin Mats,  which means high bounce so i use a bat with high middle, and when we travel to south they have hard tracks with very thick mats where generally ball keeps low so i take my low middle bats dere .

I feel comfortable 

That sounds a bit extreme! Sounds like you don't play on grass at all!

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[ManHOOS]

That sounds a bit extreme! Sounds like you don't play on grass atLeague
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No ! Its a bit unfair for batsmen but hey its weekend cricket hehee and that is the reason trundlers here thought they are Lee s and Akhtar s of League

[tim2000s]

As one off the taller guys on the forum, I find that my usual hitting position on a short handle is about an inch lower than on a long blade. Funnily enough.

The point being that the middle position matters, but as crictech have pointed out many times, we tend to hit the ball in the same area of the bat, regardless of pitch type.

I'd suggest that the problem most on here have is that the bat isn't properly knocked in!

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[uknsaunders]

I think with a higher middled bat you obviously have an advantage in terms of pickup and possibly bat speed. I'm just going on experience but mis-timing a ball lower down the blade on a high middled bat might result in a longer mis-hit than hitting a ball higher up the blade on a low middled bat. I'm sure Tim will have some thoughts on this?