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[Tom]

May just be me but this Lekka bat looks remarkably similar to the Joker. This was launched/posted last December.

It has similar dimensions and a thinner face (look at the stickers compared to the full sized bat).

[peplow]

Yeah doe slook similar but not as big profile-wise, which begs the question how do blackcat get such huge edges etc?? :S gotta be some trick, dried willow-he said no to, cant think of anything else.

[Washington]

Hollowed willow??

[Str8bat]

Looks very similar indeed. Would have expected Lekka to voice this fact but maybe they sorted it out amicably...or joined forces?

[Sitonit]

May just be me but this Lekka bat looks remarkably similar to the Joker. This was launched/posted last December.

It has similar dimensions and a thinner face (look at the stickers compared to the full sized bat).

hmmmm... that's interesting.
Do u know what kinda price range does Lekka offer for their T20 bat in G1? Looks pretty nice.

[Black Cat Cricket]

The Lekka T20 is to the Joker what the Upfront Twenty20 is to the Mongoose MMi3...

[Howzat]

The Lekka T20 is to the Joker what the Upfront Twenty20 is to the Mongoose MMi3...

Wasn't the Lekka T20 released before the Joker?

[carn69]

the lekka look's wicked phaa

[Black Cat Cricket]

Wasn't the Lekka T20 released before the Joker?

Depends what you mean by 'released', if these photos appeared in December as has been said, then maybe.  I know Petehosk mentioned he had one, but I'm not sure if they're available as such, they certainly weren't available for purchase anywhere I don't think, and don't know if they are yet?

[Black Cat Cricket]

My point wasn't to do with the release dates, however.  I don't even know when the Upfront bat was released, may have been before the Mongoose, I just don't know.

[petehosk]

Charlie - you are correct!
The Joker was officially released first.
Then the Lekka followed, from what I have been told anyway!

The picture from December that Tom mentioned was no doubt a prototype of the bat to be released??

[Tom]

Pics of the Lekka were first on the forums in December.

If they're not the same then I apologise and take it back. They just looked incredibly similar all the way down to toe shape.

[Black Cat Cricket]

I personally don't count prototypes as being released.  I'm not surprised that someone else was working on a similar design- as I said, it seemed so obvious.

That said, if all Lekka have done is shaven off the edges and shortened the blade, the Jokers should still be bigger, and will pick-up and play better.

[Howzat]

That said, if all Lekka have done is shaven off the edges and shortened the blade, the Jokers should still be bigger, and will pick-up and play better.

So tell us... what have you done, why so secretive, if I made a bat that was supposedly better than anything else I'd want to tell people what idea I had come up with?
PS. If anyone is interested, first prototypes of Lekka T20 bat in that style were made in November 2008

[carn69]

i think mongoose is by far and will always be the most popular t20 bat it gets
most coverage etc etc and looks the best in my eyes and it's used by pro's