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[ursmasti]

Received Bats yesterday and here is an update from initial look and feel

Cricmart.In service : very good service always responds to fb chat, ordered and bats are delivered within 3 days and also did follow-up after receiving bats.

Feel and Balance: I am still not sure if these are Professional Players bats or not but when i first picked up the bat Special Edition felt little bottom heavy and it weights 2.9.9 on scale and feels exactly 2.9.9, Master 9000 (claimed as Sanagakara bat) weights 2.10.1 and feels little lighter than the weight may be like 2.9 . There is no names or anything written on the toe neither the toe is buffed that players name is erased. Toe on both bats are perfectly sanded and waxed like any other shelf bat.

Ping: Ping is one thing def very very good and initial response of the mallet is very good.

Stickers: I like the stickers of Special Edition as they are very minimal in the front and back and little bit different than standard SS bats.

Comparison : These Players bats are they really different and u cant compare with any shelf bats .. i am sorry to say NO . I have purchased few bats from VKS ( Reserve , Platinum and Gold Edition) all the bats have performed exceptionally well and are same quality as these bats from Cricmart.in. I am not saying these bats are bad they are really a good ones but from my past purchase of SS bats from VKS i dont see any difference. May be once i knock them in they might play better than what i got from off the shelf bat.

Here are more pictures.

[TBONTB]

These do look like great bats! I just have an issue and this is not aimed at you at all. Cricmart appear to be selling a lot of 'players' bats, which i know has been brought up before. And its mad, I could call anything a players bat and sell it. Unless I had bona fide proof that it was indeed a players bat, i.e. I got it off the person myself, I know the seller well and trust them or some other form of guarantee then I wouldn't trust them with a barge pole let alone my money. These bats look great, and I hope they go well for you because why would I not want bats to perform. I think it should just be noted that all of a sudden a particular company has popped up with a lot of 'players' bats, this is buyer beware in the extreme. As I said I hope these go well, and they look great but Sangakara will be looking where all his bats have gone at the rate cricmart are selling them.

[procricket]

I couldn't  care who or what they are id have them in my bag but then again I love bats

[TBONTB]

Yeh yeh agreed, they look fantastic and I would love to own one. It just doesn't sit right with me, no idea why just a gut feeling. I may well be very very wrong but just my gut feeling.

[sgcricket]

Quick question @ursmasti
For the Sangakkara bat, did you pay the normal Masters 9000 price or was it higher (player's price or something like that)? The 1 player bat which I have seen performs similar to the off the shelf Reserve Edition.

[Bat Wizard]

Nice looking bats...

[ursmasti]

@sgcricket
Paid same price for both ... its actually higher than the regualar Master 9000 price ... they said the stickers master but the bat is Pro version .

[calcurtis98]

I love the SS with the black stickers and I'm not usually a fan of SS but they're two beauties.

[TBONTB]

@sgcricket
Paid same price for both ... its actually higher than the regualar Master 9000 price ... they said the stickers master but the bat is Pro version .

And that is exactly my point. I am not making any assertions as to the validity or not of the retailers claim. However, you only have their word, and to charge you more for a bat that potentially may not have the authenticity that they claim. 

[rajesh500]

SS is making very decent bats lately.. I stil love my SS Kullu which i got from Dave..

[procricket]

Always had a soft spot for SS bats when I visit INDIA i realised a few things about bats and making.

[i12breakfree]

Yeh yeh agreed, they look fantastic and I would love to own one. It just doesn't sit right with me, no idea why just a gut feeling. I may well be very very wrong but just my gut feeling.

As per swat cricmart went with a batch of premium quality SS bats for IPL players. So these bats that they are selling are the leftover ones. Say they took 5 bats for player X and he kept 2 , so they are selling the remaining 3 to interested public.
So these may have gone to player's kit bag but now they are in CBF member's bucket

[ursmasti]

These are players bats or not that i don't know .. never had or purchased a players bat so i am not sure how they feel in hands.

[tushar sehgal]

very nice looking bats @ursmasti, special edition would be my fav of the two. Hope they play well for you.

[sanredrose]

Whether its a players bat or not, is a different story but these bats extremely good looking and with ruler straight grains you are going to get amazing performance !!