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[hell4leather cricket]

There will be a black market for 41mm edge bats lol

[Sivlar13]

If it's not happening until next year it's about time I stocked up on 46mm+ bats!!

[mace9960]

I Find Ricky Ponting Championing The Cause For Bat Restrictions Is A Bit Rich, Considering He Pissed And Moaned When The Kookaburra Carbon Was Banned Back In 2006. I Think He Called The MCC Narrow Minded & Short Sighted. Stating That It Gave Him No Advantaged Over The Bowler.

[smilley792]

I think cbf is the real loser here.


Threads will no longer be replied to in awe with phrases of "wow that massive for the weight" "what a monster" "50mm edge and no concaving seriously"

They will be replaced with.

"Yes, That looks within limits at a legal weight" "well done on purchasing a bat that looks like all the rest" 

[mattw]

who's going to take a ruler with them when umpiring now?

[InternalTraining]

If not big bats, what are we going to appreciate now? Stickers? Bleh!

I remember Ponting goading KP during BBL's commentary session (despite KP's request to just lay off); I realized that day that Ponting is a piece of work! What an ignoramus. <thumbs down/middle finger!>

[InternalTraining]

If it's not happening until next year it's about time I stocked up on 46mm+ bats!!

It's not a bat idea. Those big bats are mighty fine for a T-20 club level outing. Sad thing is that custom bat makers can't bow the bats like GN can and GN is the only bat maker that is doing it right.

[mace9960]

That's just one aspect but it would hardly have any effect if we are playing in a 60 yard boundary.

If not 85, then 80 meters boundary should be minimum.

The Shortest Boundary At Trent Bridge In Nottingham And Eden Park In Auckland Are 65 metres And They Sit Right On The Edge Of The Stands As It Is. So Straight Away Their Ruled Out From International Cricket And They Wouldn't Be The Only Ones If The Boundary Minimum Is Set To 80-85metres.

[CrickFreak]

Sometimes wonder what is the true reasoning for restricting bat size. The factors people have been talking about can easily be contradicted. 
For instance, there are more test matches ending in results which means bowlers are taking 20 wickets, 400+ score was chased down more than 10 years ago when the bats were smaller. Why not accept the fact that batsmen of current age are lot more creative, hard working and successful than yesteryear's.
I think its a conspiracy by retired cricketers because they see batsmen of this generation scoring lot more and easily than them.
Guys like Kohli, ABD, Amla, Smith etc use normal size bats (compared to Warner's) and still score heavily.
Sachin used a 3 lb bat and scored tons of runs and no one complained. Weight puts the ball further away not the volume....

[bostoncricketer]

Looking at the positive side - will this bring down bat prices as theoritically more of them could be made?

[ProCricketer1982]

Sometimes wonder what is the true reasoning for restricting bat size. The factors people have been talking about can easily be contradicted. 
For instance, there are more test matches ending in results which means bowlers are taking 20 wickets, 400+ score was chased down more than 10 years ago when the bats were smaller. Why not accept the fact that batsmen of current age are lot more creative, hard working and successful than yesteryear's.
I think its a conspiracy by retired cricketers because they see batsmen of this generation scoring lot more and easily than them.
Guys like Kohli, ABD, Amla, Smith etc use normal size bats (compared to Warner's) and still score heavily.
Sachin used a 3 lb bat and scored tons of runs and no one complained. Weight puts the ball further away not the volume....

Tests are ending early due to lesser skilled batsmen though, aka they are just playing white ball style and so scoring quickly but can't last long. That's not test cricket

[Sivlar13]

They're not exactly being very specific so I think I'll go for this cheeky number for Laver and Wood. Nothing wrong with a 35mm edge that runs from handle to toe!!

[JTtaylor145]

Lets be honest how many club umpires or even premier league umpires know what a laminated bat is? Bat sizes will not filter down to the below first class level. To even things up why couldn't there be a five over bowling powerplay where test match wide's are in operation and the fielding side can have six men on the boundary. To be extremely radical why not let the fielding side have a new ball for those 5 overs and also let them bowl of 18 yards.  The balance needs to be addressed but what's next are we going to stop batsmen going to the gym for six months a year. Players of today are generally fitter and stronger. Let's compare Gatting's physique to Warner's, shall we???

[Tom]

Here's a new bat design which fits within the regs. A meagre 15mm edge, but we've packed the weight onto the spine.

[petehosk]

Here's a new bat design which fits within the regs. A meagre 15mm edge, but we've packed the weight onto the spine.

Good call! I will take one in 2'10 thanks