A little bit of history... A couple of Fridays ago (17th July) I was just finishing a cup of tea at work when I received a call from those kind and generous people at Cricket World.
They said congratulations you have won our July competition, would you like a GM Original bat of your choice. The Competition was to tell Cricket World by what margin did England win the last Ashes series at home, in 2013, visit the GM Bat Selector and enter the answer.
Now as many of you know I am a bit of a fan of GM kit. So after some considerable thought, I decided to accept the kind offer. (you can imagine how long that considerable thought lasted).
GM then sent me an email requesting I have a go at their famous bat selector (
http://www.gm-cricket.com/pages/bat-selector/default.aspx) and then let them know what the output was and they would make something up for me.
Now ever since I sold my 808 octane I have regretted it (
http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=28693.msg451436#msg451436) so I then set about the bat selector answering the questions in the hope that my front foot smash technique would work with the bat selector.
Eventually after a couple of goes, I came up with (the answer I wanted) a GM Octane - pick up index 3.
GM accepted this and then I had to wait.... which is the worst thing ever...