Why do the fun police have to come out?
It was clearly a joke, but I was enjoying the "3/4 imbeciles" believing Stuey K had made it
The English were in Australia for the Ashes - so not too far fetched to have current bats made from local bat makers (the only large scale bat making setup in Australia being GN and Stuart their main maker)
The point is Stuart could have indeed made the bat - no biggie if he really did and the bat broke. Can happen to any bat from any maker. Players get bats from as many places as they can. They (aussies, english even Pak players) have been getting loads of bats from even smaller companies on their tours to india or during IPL. I am sure the aussies would have been picking bats from English makers while on tour there.
But again, they could be just joking in that video- we can never be sure.
Skip, you could ask Stu about it - but will he own up to a broken bat on telly?
(and rightly so since most of the naive will think its the makers fault it broke etc - most on this forum are knowledgeable enough to know better)