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uknsaunders

Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« on: October 31, 2015, 11:29:16 AM »
As some of your might of read, I had a brain fart and brought 8 bats from Sports Direct in the sale. Well the first 2 have arrived. Here's bat 1:-

GM Icon F7 404
32mm Edge
65mm Spine?
8 straight grains
Blemish at the top and bat naturally bleached to an inch of it's life
Weight 2'8
On ebay - Yep





It's not at big bat but remember it's an F7 blade at 2'8. Taps up well and it has a fairly deep sound off the mallet, so not too hard pressed. Picks up well and any self respecting club cricketer would be pretty happy with it. GM's quality control on the lower end bats is outstanding and this looks every bit as good as a high end GM. Nice pickup.
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2015, 11:40:25 AM »
Bat 2 is a GM Six6:-
39mm Edge
60mm Spine?
9 straight grains
Looks like a knot at the bottom bat naturally bleached to an inch of it's life
Weight 2'11 (just under)
On ebay - Nope, pondering keeping this one






Heavier with an F4.5 face, this bat feels like a big piece of wood. Look past the blemish and you have 9 pretty straight grains. Responds and sounds good again. Though I suspect the Icon responds slightly better, this has the coverage. On my keep list at present.
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2015, 11:42:48 AM »
Both bats look alright for 404's, is that a butterfly stain on the Icon?

I'm waiting for the delivery driver to drop my Icon and Six6 off.
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2015, 11:49:16 AM »
Quote from: wayward_hayward on October 31, 2015, 11:42:48 AM
Both bats look alright for 404's, is that a butterfly stain on the Icon?

I'm waiting for the delivery driver to drop my Icon and Six6 off.

I think that might be - daughter was just having a bash with the mallet and it certainly wasn't dead in that area.
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2015, 11:58:03 AM »
Quote from: uknsaunders on October 31, 2015, 11:49:16 AM
I think that might be - daughter was just having a bash with the mallet and it certainly wasn't dead in that area.

Good work, start them young!  :D
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2015, 12:07:03 PM »
Quote from: wayward_hayward on October 31, 2015, 11:58:03 AM
Good work, start them young!  :D
Lol, she is 21. However she did play cricket for Hertfordshire at colts level and use do the scoring for my club. So you were right [emoji2]

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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2015, 12:45:42 PM »
Received one of mine today slazenger v800 which seems to be a really nice bat for 20 pounds hope the kookaburra is just as good


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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2015, 01:08:53 PM »
Have u done the ping test Simon, let's see how many times u hit the ceiling :-[
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2015, 01:24:29 PM »
Quote from: Uzi Sports on October 31, 2015, 01:08:53 PM
Have u done the ping test Simon, let's see how many times u hit the ceiling :-[


Next weekend mate don't worry I bring the plaster and paint but I still think we need to blame Paul he started the ping test which is now damaging ceilings around the cricket industry  :)
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2015, 01:26:06 PM »
Quote from: wayward_hayward on October 31, 2015, 01:21:22 PM






Looks like we all bought some new bats what do they feel like mate
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2015, 01:30:21 PM »
Quote from: simonmay5 on October 31, 2015, 01:24:29 PM

Next weekend mate don't worry I bring the plaster and paint but I still think we need to blame Paul he started the ping test which is now damaging ceilings around the cricket industry  :)
u need test quality bats to hit the ceiling in our swindon branch :D
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« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2015, 01:33:05 PM »
Quote from: Uzi Sports on October 31, 2015, 01:30:21 PM
u need test quality bats to hit the ceiling in our swindon branch :D

Well we will be in the right shop to do it mate as the quality of the bats are second to none that's for sure
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2015, 01:35:14 PM »
Quote from: uknsaunders on October 31, 2015, 11:29:16 AM
As some of your might of read, I had a brain fart and brought 8 bats from Sports Direct in the sale. Well the first 2 have arrived. Here's bat 1:-

GM Icon F7 404
32mm Edge
65mm Spine?
8 straight grains
Blemish at the top and bat naturally bleached to an inch of it's life
Weight 2'8
On ebay - Yep





It's not at big bat but remember it's an F7 blade at 2'8. Taps up well and it has a fairly deep sound off the mallet, so not too hard pressed. Picks up well and any self respecting club cricketer would be pretty happy with it. GM's quality control on the lower end bats is outstanding and this looks every bit as good as a high end GM. Nice pickup.


That doesn't look bad at all - the grains are pretty straight, it's the butterfly mark that puts the waves in there.
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Re: Sports Direct Bargain Bat Bin Lottery
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2015, 01:41:22 PM »
Looks nice. I'm waiting for my Kook bubble to arrive. Hopefully it won't be a plank, but for £11.99 it was worth the risk.
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