Not adding too much value in regards to the conversation here, but this topic finally gives me an opportunity to post some screenshots from the Internet Archives!2005, in my opinion, was one of the best years for bats with so many iconic models with timeless classics like the Purist and the Woodworm and then the out there models like the Beast.I often think about how prices were back then. What we would all give to have a day where bats were priced like this:
Great insight and one I wouldn’t have guessed, I would have thought with the launch of all the franchise cricket and coverage these days more money would be paid to players to use kit. However the fact so many chop and change so regularly is maybe evidence of why companies don’t, Ian Bell as you say is pretty much associated with Kook, I know he joined Woodworm in later stages and know is associated with Neon but by and large Kook, same as Cook with GN, but struggle to think of many who stayed the course throughout a career