Topic: Giving your bat time to perform (Read 5270 times)

Red Ink Cricket · « **Reply #15 on:** March 10, 2014, 12:00:45 PM »

in the early days my current match bat had an amazing middle but anything off centre slightly lacked some power. it was knocked in and just needed more time. I could have made myself another but stuck with it and about a month into last season ( its first) it started flying all over. will be having a nice refurb and new stickers applied before the season starts and im glad i didnt ditch it and start again. Yes you may be lucky and get a bat that flies from ball one but dont bin one if it doesnt. Unless its a complete plank it should come good with a little care and attention

fasteddie · « **Reply #16 on:** March 10, 2014, 12:36:12 PM »

You make a very valid point.

Looking at it, there are many reasons people trade bats like billy-o.

One could laundry list, but I think an underlying cause is the rampant consumerism we are dowsed in on a daily basis.

People want it 'now'.
Short term expectations and even shorter time horizons have been fueled by the free flow and access to information and credit.

Still, whilst your point is solid, many will get swept-up in the latest profile/sticker/brand and pile in. Which is good news for entrepreneurs.

kal_m · « **Reply #17 on:** March 10, 2014, 04:43:41 PM »

It's amazing how impatient people get with their bats. Expecting the bat to perform without properly knocking it in is rampant, at least from my experience. And yes, when somebody is scoring alot, they say he's got a gun of a bat. But I believe it the batsman and not the bat.
I sold one of my teammates a brand new SS Ton KP Players and he removed the celophane wrap and was taking it right into the nets. He said he wanted to get a feel of it (really...!!??) and I told him not to do that without proper preparation.

Vitas Cricket · « **Reply #18 on:** March 10, 2014, 04:54:52 PM »

I gave my Laver a year, including a full season of use before i evaluated it. I just tried to find the link to the topic i made, but it appears L&W are no longer sponsoring the forum....?

Kulli · « **Reply #19 on:** March 10, 2014, 05:02:42 PM »

Or if you have the cash, you can just keep buying them until you find one that goes from ball 1

GarrettJ · « **Reply #20 on:** March 10, 2014, 05:30:53 PM »

it amazes me that people can ditch a bat after facing a bowling machine ball and scoring less than 300 runs. I wasnt overly impressed with my MH Distinction until after about 500 runs then i was hitting 6's by accident.

GarrettJ · « **Reply #21 on:** March 10, 2014, 05:31:39 PM »

Quote from: Vitas Cricket on March 10, 2014, 04:54:52 PM

I gave my Laver a year, including a full season of use before i evaluated it. I just tried to find the link to the topic i made, but it appears L&W are no longer sponsoring the forum....?

i thought another sponsor had bit the dust but couldnt see who

ProCricketer1982 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 10, 2014, 06:10:49 PM »

I just hit 1000 machine balls before using it in matches..that modems it up nicely

Manormanic · « **Reply #23 on:** March 10, 2014, 08:03:56 PM »

Quote from: uknsaunders on March 10, 2014, 11:03:10 AM

4. Middle not in the right place - you have to hit it first, I've used the crictech sheets and my middle can go a long time before seeing some action. I can bat a bit as well.

This is actually the biggest of all misconception amongst gear freaks. I reckon I'm a pretty decent player, at least up to a level, and have always been technically decent. And I always bought low middle bats - the lower the better - because I felt that I hit the ball down toward the toe for most of my preferred shots. But batting with one of the crictech sheets - in a pre season friendly at Vine Lane - showed that I hit a disproportionate number of balls in the top half of the visible blade, with the middle position of a Distinction or Amplus style blade more suited to my game. Tested this again three nets, found the same each time...

Six Sixes Cricket · « **Reply #24 on:** March 10, 2014, 08:32:38 PM »

Quote from: GarrettJ on March 10, 2014, 05:31:39 PM

i thought another sponsor had bit the dust but couldnt see who

Laver went a few weeks back, moving on in a different direction. It's a shame old threads get removed.

Kevtheplumber · « **Reply #25 on:** March 10, 2014, 08:51:25 PM »

Quote from: GarrettJ on March 10, 2014, 05:30:53 PM

it amazes me that people can ditch a bat after facing a bowling machine ball and scoring less than 300 runs. I wasnt overly impressed with my MH Distinction until after about 500 runs then i was hitting 6's by accident.

Mine should be good by 2039 then

Fezballoh · « **Reply #26 on:** March 11, 2014, 07:09:01 AM »

Surely using a machine is the best test for how you're getting along with a bat (rather than how the bat is doing on its own)? If you don't feel like you're absolutely smashing those plastic balls then you're probably not getting the bat to the right place. Massive props to retailers with a net out the back!

toenails97 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 11, 2014, 07:47:02 AM »

When you think about it ideally a cricket ball should travel further than a plastic machine ball so the only real test imo is facing some bowlers and a sidearm. However bowling machines do help to play the bat in

tom line · « **Reply #28 on:** March 11, 2014, 09:51:01 PM »

I managed to buy a kookaburra kahuna 1000 from a team mate who dubbed it as a "dead bat" for �50 I took the scuff sheet of knocked it in oiled and knocked for about 6 more hours and after 2 nets in just opened up and now has the best middle on a bat I've ever used

Blank Bats · « **Reply #29 on:** March 12, 2014, 07:09:31 AM »

Another point to note is that knocking in uses a decent amount of force and should be done correctly, otherwise you'll think you've knocked it in, when u haven't.

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