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[aman]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/bat-sizes-limit-restrictions-mcc-laws-of-cricket-code-warner-mankad-handling-the-ball/2017-03-07

New rules to be applied by October this year

[petehosk]

Don't know what level you play at, but it will take an age to work its way down to the basement level some of us play at!

Interesting for the Pro players though 

[it's_a_pudding]

Don't know how much difference 18mm will make. But I like the other rules the only one I'm more unsure of is the mankad one could be get silly at times.

[Shinpathy]

Got plenty of super thick wood to last many lifetimes so I'm all set to continue blazing boundaries with ease and top edging sixes to the foul dismay of opponents anyways

[KW9221]

I am glad to see big bats and bouncing run outs go. I was never a fan of big bats. I have always preferred bat with 32-38mm edges.

[i12breakfree]

Does that mean halestorm will be discontinued next season?
Majority of OZ team plays with these big bats.

[aman]

Whats the next for cricket bats though? They have all these super light clefts, so are they gonna have middles that run all the way through the bat or wider spines? They do say how thick the bat can be at the spine and edges but not how long that thickness can run through the bat

[Big Mac]

To hell with the bats, look out Worcerstershire League because I'm going to be Mankading you lot every Saturday!

[fzrkev]

Hopefully this won't filter down to pleb level leagues any time soon! I've not owned a "monster" and was looking forward to getting one.

[jamferg]

If it filters down to village cricket I'll be appalled . Law makers have never played on wickets that are grass covered , so wet that the ball takes half inch of mud as it seams and bowling so slow that it never ' comes on to bat'

We need all the help we can get

[AlanB]

MCC announces bat size limit

https://www.lords.org/news/2017/march/mcc-announces-new-code-of-laws/

[ppccopener]

MCC announces bat size limit

https://www.lords.org/news/2017/march/mcc-announces-new-code-of-laws/

im volunteering my bat in for checking at St Johns Wood compliance dept, anyone else in London want to join me we can have a pint in the tavern
10am 1st April

[fzrkev]

Will be interesting to see what comes out after this. Being an F1 fan, I know just how hard designers work to circumvent the rules. For instance, it doesn't say how wide the deepest part can be. You could have a bat with 40mm edges, then chamfer the back so that it doesn't look like a continuation of the edge, but have a flat back 90ish mm wide, but 60mm deep across its width. Nowhere in the rules does it state a bat HAS to have a discernable spine.

Then of course, the complaints flood in that the bat looks awful and the rules are changed again and so on and so on........

[Number4]

Does that mean halestorm will be discontinued next season?
Majority of OZ team plays with these big bats.

I still think this only affects Warner.... 40mm edges are still pretty big and not that long ago were the extreme

[alexhilly1492]

40mm edges and 67mm spine is still a big bat, if we think back only 10 or so years we had the bats like gm purist/maxi/catalyst and gm predator, original powerbow etc and these bats we much smaller than 40mm edge size, for me this is the daft this about it, this wont affect anything that we are currently seeing excpet gayle/lynn/warner will look like they're using toothpicks! the ball will still be hit miles by those who are hitting it miles already!