Topic: What are her chances Doc (Read 11327 times)

JG · « **on:** February 21, 2016, 10:17:59 PM »

So, as you may be able to guess I've had an incident tonight at the nets where Maximus No.1 (not the one on the for sale thread, so chill out before you start losing it at me) had been given out to a member of the uni team. All seemed to be going well until the final ball of what was his session and a heavily struck yorker caused mass destruction to the inside of the toe and edge which is now only being held by the goo that is for the shoe (shoe-goo). Please see the lovely crack running all over the bottom corner of what was a lovely bat

Although everyone was expecting me to flip out and lose it entirely with my fellow teammate, I was already thinking about what to do with it... Some may say firewood, others say maybe a couple of dowels and a whole roll of tape will sort it out for a little while until I can get it to explode in dramatic fashion which I am hoping to be a really boring backwards defensive to get everyone laughing. I was thinking to get it sawn above the cracked bit an use it for a stupidly big catching bat. I have still got around 2/3 of the bat left in terms of length of the blade, which had got me thinking about a crazy idea of making an SS Mongoosimus (copyrighted

) if I got the handle replaced with a longer one.

As much as I would love to use this as a dig at the dryness of the bats coming out from the factory in india, at the end of the day I did not pay a big sum for the bat so realistically I could not really expect much of an extended life-span but it was, for sure a lovely bat. Just goes to show that you shouldn't let anyone use your bats if you don't fancy the heartbreak of losing it through someone else's doing

My main question to you lot is though; what would you do if you were in this scenario??

brokenbat · « **Reply #1 on:** February 21, 2016, 10:23:22 PM »

Send to M&H for one of their "BARGAIN" sales

JG · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2016, 10:24:46 PM »

Sold with the tag of 'small crack to face and edge' surely they would get �200 out of it? seems in fantastic condition

smilley792 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2016, 10:36:00 PM »

Personally the broken section is far to large, so glue and dowels will soon give up with the amount of leverage another bottom corner Yorker will do to that.

Time to bin/catching bat it

Giraffe208 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2016, 10:42:41 PM »

Looks goosed to me

InternalTraining · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2016, 10:54:10 PM »

Never take nice bats to nets.

JG · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2016, 11:22:11 PM »

Living in a nice little student house, I don't have the tools or the cahoneys to even attempt to sort this bat out into a new Super short blade stick I can still use. So I politely ask if any of the forum sponsors fancy taking it on??

Wickets-then-runs · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2016, 11:27:47 PM »

looks like storm damage!

rickjames · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2016, 11:39:25 PM »

Bat RIP

bostoncricketer · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2016, 11:45:56 PM »

Seeing this happen far too many times to a SS

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dcullen8 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 22, 2016, 12:09:59 AM »

Definitely have to invest in a net bat now after seeing this.

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sriram · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2016, 12:11:21 AM »

@bostoncricketer It can happen to any peice of wood if you dig out a Yorker. What's ss got to do with it? They infact provide one of the best economical bats if everyone couldn't afford a �200 bat.. U get what u pay for.

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sanredrose · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2016, 12:22:10 AM »

@JG - Feel sorry for you man. It might be damaged beyond repair, but if you want to try some repair work then it could very well be of some use to you.

JG · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2016, 12:24:49 AM »

I'm not that fussed about it to be honest, to many of my teammates surprise. It does take another bat out of the situation and my collection for that matter which is actually a good thing!!! get it sorted out into some weird sort of bat and carry on using it i suppose is the plan??

vishwas · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2016, 02:05:03 AM »

Agreed here. SS not at fault..if your bat profile has thin toe for helping pickup..then better play Yorkers carefully. Good luck with the repair job mate. You can use it as a net bat if you manage to get it repaired.

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