Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #75 on: January 12, 2011, 09:52:55 PM »
Quote from: jonpinson on January 12, 2011, 09:40:20 PM
Because the joy of living is I can spend my money on whatever I choose without being answerable to anyone :)

Whichever interests I have at any point in my life, I like to have the best gear. A few years ago I decided to learn guitar. Rather than go and buy a piece of (No Swearing Please) £50 starter kit, I comissioned a group of artisans in Moscow to build me a unique one. It cost as much as a new small car. Do I play guitar any better for it? I doubt it. Absolutely not the point of it though.

I have been known to spend £50 on a packet of a certain type of leaf tea, because it is considered exceptional. Looks the same as pg tips when I piss it out in the toilet.

I don't drink much whisky, but I have a small collection of 50 or so single malts, which will last many many years before they run out. Why? Because I find the subtle differences interesting. And because I can.

I will buy a Legend, or a L&W or maybe even a SC when the right one comes along. Will I expect them to be perform better than other bats? No. Will they make me a better player? Unlikely. Will I take an immense amount of pleasure from knowing I have the best, the pinnacle? Absolutely.

Logic and sense do not come into it. I know these follies are not worth their premium if you rate them so calculatingly on 'performance', but it is so very much more than that. You may not understand it, which is fine. I owe you no justification.

A Laver or a SC or a Legend are not worth their cost if you are buying because you think their premium will equate to an inflated level of performance. That is the point I was making to the OP, who with respect to him seemed to have found the most expensive bat he could and fallen for the myth that it must be the best...
This has got to be up there in the top 5 forum rants........love it!
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #76 on: January 12, 2011, 09:59:05 PM »
jonpinson and buzz, the forums residential ranters, keep it up chaps  :D
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #77 on: January 12, 2011, 10:06:14 PM »
Well you can have a chapter 2 then. The example I forgot:

I took a gap year between school and university. I got a minimum wage job for the year and once I had saved up enough I bought an Omega Seamaster watch. Cost me a grand. Thats a lot of hours of minimum wage. A £10 swatch will likely be more accurate. I cannot begin to describe the immense sense of pride I feel every time I look at that watch and remember how it came about. God forbid, but that watch would be the very last thing I would sell if it was necessary to do so. One day that watch will given to my son on his 18th birthday, along with a stern description of the value of money and hard effort.

Like it or not gents, it is how I work.

I've said it before, most of us have a similar way, just not so extreme. Otherwise all of us village cricketers would be happy with £50 bats and pads from the 70s :)

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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #78 on: January 12, 2011, 10:10:27 PM »
Good lad Jon

Not all of us are village cricketers tut tut

The truth is the work ethics are none existance in todays youth it a FAST LIFE culture and want it now...

Good story Jon and i bet you lad will be proud of the lessons you will teach him
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #79 on: January 13, 2011, 08:53:36 AM »
Quote from: jonpinson on January 12, 2011, 10:06:14 PM
Well you can have a chapter 2 then. The example I forgot:

I took a gap year between school and university. I got a minimum wage job for the year and once I had saved up enough I bought an Omega Seamaster watch. Cost me a grand. Thats a lot of hours of minimum wage. A £10 swatch will likely be more accurate. I cannot begin to describe the immense sense of pride I feel every time I look at that watch and remember how it came about. God forbid, but that watch would be the very last thing I would sell if it was necessary to do so. One day that watch will given to my son on his 18th birthday, along with a stern description of the value of money and hard effort.

Like it or not gents, it is how I work.

I've said it before, most of us have a similar way, just not so extreme. Otherwise all of us village cricketers would be happy with £50 bats and pads from the 70s :)
I love this story - but surely you should give you son the swatch and then send him out to work and earn cash to buy his own watch - rather than just give him yours, as this would defeat the object?

If I didn't have a wife who has spent all my money on our house I would adopt a similar pholosophy on buying the best.
My story is similar - I took a gap year and spend the first 9 months teaching (including a certain AN Cook cricket) and then spent the money I earned on a 9 week tour of Africa which also brings me many great memories - although they pale into insignificance as to the pride I see when Ali scores a million runs against the Aussies!!!
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #80 on: January 13, 2011, 08:54:32 AM »
but this is rather off topic -
Quote from: CricketisLife on January 12, 2011, 09:39:12 PM
Guys, thanks a lot for all your feedback...
One thing from my side would be that the £430 includes shipping...
Anyway I need to read through all the posts and make a quick snapshot of all the comments that would help me decide....

Also I am off to India on holiday in February so I might have a look at a few there...any bats I need to look out for ?



on the topic of buying bats in india in Feb - humm a trip to india to check out cricket equipment - that is also worth saving up for!!
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #81 on: January 13, 2011, 10:49:29 PM »
Quote from: Buzz on January 13, 2011, 08:54:32 AM
but this is rather off topic -
on the topic of buying bats in india in Feb - humm a trip to india to check out cricket equipment - that is also worth saving up for!!
Really ? Can I actually get good bats in India too ? Any suggestions ?
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #82 on: January 13, 2011, 10:50:47 PM »
worth a look at SS whilst over in India, as they can make some quality bats.
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #83 on: January 13, 2011, 10:58:40 PM »
Quote from: andeke11 on January 13, 2011, 10:50:47 PM
worth a look at SS whilst over in India, as they can make some quality bats.

Thanks mate...I hope they also talk in same scale for weights....I need a 2'8...so need to make sure they understand that...
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #84 on: January 13, 2011, 11:00:50 PM »
make sure they have something to weigh it, then watch whilst they do it.
Good luck though.
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #85 on: January 13, 2011, 11:06:12 PM »
work it out in grams too, they love grams i think!
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #86 on: January 14, 2011, 09:15:49 AM »
or just pick the bat up with a pair of gloves on and if you like it great, if not move to the next one!! Start with a light and a medium one and work out which one you prefer, remembering that it will get a bit heavier once you have oiled it and put a sciff sheet on (if that is something you do)
There is also BAS who make a decent bat and SG who make all the kookaburra bats as well as many small guys. Better not foget Puntu or Robinsons or Symonds or KG or Matrixx.

I mean this in a nice way - but I am kind of concerned that you say you are willing to pay over £150 for a bat but didn't know that bats were made in India... :o
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #87 on: January 14, 2011, 10:58:52 AM »
What's the quality of the handles like in these Indian made bats?

Or would you advise an Indian bat should be re handled?
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #88 on: January 14, 2011, 11:04:13 AM »
Quote from: Canners on January 14, 2011, 10:58:52 AM
What's the quality of the handles like in these Indian made bats?
Or would you advise an Indian bat should be re handled?
Better than the usual handles in a Pakistani made bat.
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #89 on: January 14, 2011, 02:32:20 PM »
2.8 bat for an opener with a low middle.......

hmmmm i think this could be the bat for you!!!!!

http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=7260.0
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