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[leeroy]

Was listening to something the other day and it talked about Kumar Sangakarra using a 2.7 bat, which got me wondering about the bat weights of other test/first class players. I've never really heard about it and wondered if there were some players that use exceptionally large or small bats for their size?

[WalkingWicket37]

if you look on youtube theres some aussies doing kit bag videos mate

[WalkingWicket37]

http://youtu.be/wCjtbU4JHAk

[ajmw89]

Tendulkar was known for using a fairly heavy bat at the start of his career (3lb2oz I think)  Believe his elbiw problems meant he came down to about 2lb 14oz. Reckon Dhoni uses around the 3lb mark...

[AverageCricketer]

Chris Gayle uses a bat that is 3lb 3oz with 3 grips. 

http://youtu.be/4HEdY-_G4EM

[Bat and Ball Cricket]

Big thing that's been getting to me over the last few seasons are the 'as used by' marketing labels. Those to the average punter are huge bats, but massively concaved to get the weight down. Then you look at the pros bats and they are full profile, no concaving, leading people to think they must be really heavy.
With the exception to those few like Gayle and Tendulkar, I think you will find most pros are under 2'10.

[skip1973]

Big thing that's been getting to me over the last few seasons are the 'as used by' marketing labels. Those to the average punter are huge bats, but massively concaved to get the weight down. Then you look at the pros bats and they are full profile, no concaving, leading people to think they must be really heavy.
With the exception to those few like Gayle and Tendulkar, I think you will find most pros are under 2'10.

Plenty of pro's use concaved bats and most brands have a full players shape as well.

[ppccopener]

i think if it's lightly pressed you can get a bigger profile for the same weight,so a lot of the pro's have hardly pressed bats. If they break they just get sent some more

bats from shops the average club player would buy are pressed so they last,but you get less performance....

double edged sword I suppose, if you had a masive profile barely pressed bat from lillywhites(!) that went like a cannon but broke after 5 games would you be happy?

[Seniorplayer]

Softer pressed bats generally have a shorter life span when the blade begins to crack (not split ) it should give it's best performance.

[WalkingWicket37]

All this talk of softer pressed, harder pressed etc.

All bats are pressed differently as each cleft if different. Each cleft will be pressed to both perform and last. There's no point pressing pro bats to fly like a rocket launcher if they'll break after one ball, the same as there's no point pressing an off the shelf bat to last 10 years as it will not hit a ball off the square.

I think a lot of these posts about pressing are theory and speculation rather than hard facts.

[Seniorplayer]

This is what i do i  ask the guy who makes my bats for a softer willow cleft pressed for optimum performance which will open up immediately following knocking in as I prefer the bat  to ping straight away. Maybe I have been lucky as i have only ever had one bat break and that was at indoor nets when the person who borrowed it hit the toe on the floor with such force the bat snapped in half.

[Vitas Cricket]

https://twitter.com/thebigginge/status/494141749741490179