Print

[Colesy]

why say that about yourself?
but on topic - i can see the desire for 2 bats but for different reasons. If one breaks then you can keep using a similar bat whereas if your low middled bat breaks then you end up using a high-middled bat on a low and slow wicket.[/color] Personally i would have 2 bats with middles fairly similar e.g low middled and a mid-low middled bat 
tbh i think your over-complicating everything a bit

[thebd11]

i disagree tbf, if a bat snaps and it ent my fault then ill get a refund, if it breaks through overuse and wear, then ill buy a new one , but i still think high and low middles work much better IMO, but im open to all opiniions and can see where youre coming from

[Liam-SCCC]

Having 2 completely different bats would be hell!

I have 2 bats, but just because i have only just received my Redback. I will use the Redback every training session this winter and then come May i will be used to it. I will then use it every training session throughout the summer. You get a feel for a bat and you know where the middle is. Having a net bat is pointless even if it is the same spec. It will feel different and play differently.

My old bat I am keeping as it is a special bat, a mate scored a double hundred not out with it. Aged 15

[Liam-SCCC]

I am sure any and everyone will agree. That once you have netted with a bat and got used to it then you will be able to you it on any god dam surface you want will same affect.

[hit4six]

Thats a shame, I was going to make an offer for the spare bat Liam!

[thebd11]

yes but im sure you will agree that if i go for the more modern profile, with more of the wood behind the middle, which is the style i like then with the middle being low then it wouldnt be great to play pull shots  

but im going to alternate use of them throughout the winter, so i will get use to it

Craig, what offer?

[Colesy]

Being tall then I don't play pulls or hooks so I play drives on the back and front foot. I have a low-mid middle but I just stand tall so I hit the ball lower on the bat. No point me having a high middle. Besides, if I time it higher up on the bat then it will still go for 4.

[Liam-SCCC]

Thats a shame, I was going to make an offer for the spare bat Liam!

ha, I could be tempted mate. I just need to nail down the wielding of my Redback to make sure its the bat for me!

[thebd11]

but im not tall, so i do have to use higher up the bat

[Liam-SCCC]

yes but im sure you will agree that if i go for the more modern profile, with more of the wood behind the middle, which is the style i like then with the middle being low then it wouldnt be great to play pull shots  

but im going to alternate use of them throughout the winter, so i will get use to it

Craig, what offer?

Surely a modern profile is a bat with wood everywhere!

[Liam-SCCC]

Are you talking about a bat with a high concetration of wood in the middle as i'm sure your timing isn't that good at 14/15.

And craigs offer was aimed at me

[Colesy]

Not you don't. I'm saying I have a lower middle and am fine on the backfoot on bouncier tracks. Just get a bat you're used to and you'll know which shots will go and which won't so everytime you play a shot it comes out of the sweetspot.

[thebd11]

ok perhaps not a modern profile, dont know the name for it, but one where the wood is behind the middle wand less of it in the shoulders

sorry, and yes, but my timing is constantly improving i hope anyway.........

but if i have a low middle and someone bowls a ball that i want to pull, surely the pull will come out of the top of the bat, and then i wont be middling it like i could be ?

[Liam-SCCC]

exactly. Get 1 bat, stick to it, get used to it and you can time a ball on any surface.

[Colesy]

Pick the length quicker then