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"Not a particularly aesthetically pleasing stick the Excalibur. A bat that in its prime was about as popular as a 1980's Catholic Priest at a 5 year old's birthday party!"
"If you were good enough to get one out of the screws the V800 could certainly do a bit of damage, but anything out of the toe vibrated harder than a range of recently divorced middle aged women's sex toys!"
"MRF genius 2008. What an absolute abortion of a stick this was / still is. Often used by the bloke in your team who bats at number 9, doesn't bowl and always insists that he has "sub-continent connections" through work. This bat goes about as well as the childhood of the 9 year old boy who had to make it whilst getting paid $1.39 an hour. The Madras Rubber Factory needs to (No Swearing Please) of back to making tyres and leave cricket bats to those who know what they are doing!"
"The Scoop, a bat that made about as much sense as Donald Trumps political campaign. After my Diablo snapped into 5000 pieces, and at a time where dads gambling debts were priority number 1, I was actually forced to use an old scoop for a brief flutter between 05 and 06 and let me tell you, for a bat that literally has the middle scooped out of it, the GN Scoop went alright. The Scoop was a bit like that girl at the strip club that didn't look as good as the others but would do the same to you for 20 as the others would charge for a 50!"
"The Kookaburra Diablo 2005. A pretty ordinary stick this one. Packing about as much power as Poland did in World War 2!"
"The SS Jumbo 1993. What a stick. The sort of bat that could best be described as the bat Hitler would have used if he ever donned the whites. Bold, Intimidating and ferociously ruthless!"
"Gray Nicolls Jet 2010. A seriously mediocre piece of work this by Gray Nicolls. The stick that was owned by the youthful metro-sexual at your club who was regularly spotted training in a bright yellow fluorescent tank top!"
"The GM Maestro was commonly used by the bloke at your club who despite consuming on average 16.7 standard drinks per day between the years of 1983 to 1997, was still remarkably sharp in gully and very rarely grassed an opportunity. The same sort of legend who would regularly get his cock out early on into low key family club functions (eg, Season launches, Christmas parties). One of the great cricket bats of the ninety's. 9/10!"
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Topic: Forgotten Cricket Bats of a Bygone Era (Read 2095 times)