After visiting the Lords Test between Pakistan and Australia in the summer I ordered a true Pro spec bat from GN, the first 2 attempts were not close, however third time lucky and all that.....
I returned the second offering and went through all the options in the offices at Robertsbridge with Richard who has been very helpful in the past. I selected the preferred shape of the Oblivion and the main request was low density but pretty if possible, basically everything...... I got an email before the bat was sent from Richard letting me know that the bat was ready and if I was not having it the bat would be seen on TV as it was good enough and the same spec as a current Test player.
So I'm very pleased to be able to report that upon opening the bat was huge, pretty and light. It has 38mm edges, 67mm spine and is massive, the face has 15 clean straight grains and with a toe guard, anti scuff sheet and Octopus grip and over sized handle it weighs 2.9. I did think that the bat would make good money and would sell it on but having tapped it up with the mallet I now realise that it is as good, if not better, than it looks and will have to be used.
This bat has restored my faith in GN, I've had some great bats before but they've always been the lower end models with tight grains.
It is just waiting on the model sticker which will be Oblivion LE, not sure if this will be a shop range, it may just be available direct via offers like the Lords one.
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Topic: GN Oblivion LE (at long last) (Read 14378 times)