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RoCo Da Pixie

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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #90 on: January 14, 2011, 02:52:19 PM »
Quote from: Canners 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


Mike I do like the look of this bat, I might need to have a feel when we meet up next.
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #91 on: January 14, 2011, 02:56:24 PM »

yeah mate no probs i may have to bring a duffle bag full of bats in true Pete Hosk style ;)
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #92 on: January 14, 2011, 02:58:10 PM »
Quote from: Canners on January 14, 2011, 02:56:24 PM
yeah mate no probs i may have to bring a duffle bag full of bats in true Pete Hosk style ;)

That will only work if you can pull out of it a Flintoff bat, Strauss Bat, Afridi Bat, and some other beauty's

Otherwise you might be the Hosk apprentice working your way up to the big time bat collecting.
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #93 on: January 14, 2011, 02:59:04 PM »
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 :)


Anyone else thinking of the scene when you read Jon's (incredible) post?



Jon...you don't have to deliver that speech in military uniform...but would be bloody amazing if you did
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #94 on: January 14, 2011, 03:28:29 PM »
Swear I've not clicked the link but s it Forrest Gump?
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #95 on: January 14, 2011, 03:30:10 PM »
Quote from: jonpinson on January 14, 2011, 03:28:29 PM
Swear I've not clicked the link but s it Forrest Gump?

Nope it is not Forest Gump
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #96 on: January 14, 2011, 03:32:38 PM »
It's the famous Gold Watch speech from Pulp Fiction, where Christopher Walken talks about his watch and what his Dad went through to get it, and saying one say it will be his sons...priceless
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #97 on: January 14, 2011, 03:33:00 PM »
I thought it was quite apt anyway
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #98 on: January 14, 2011, 03:41:06 PM »
I'm sure that Jon didn't smuggle his cricket bat out of a prisoner of war camp up his jacksie though....
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #99 on: January 14, 2011, 03:46:14 PM »
Quote from: justnotcricket86 on January 14, 2011, 03:32:38 PM
It's the famous Gold Watch speech from Pulp Fiction, where Christopher Walken talks about his watch and what his Dad went through to get it, and saying one say it will be his sons...priceless

Now that's odd. I had the right scene, wrong film. But yeh that was what I was thinking.
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #100 on: January 14, 2011, 03:48:05 PM »
Quote from: tim2000s on January 14, 2011, 03:41:06 PM
I'm sure that Jon didn't smuggle his cricket bat out of a prisoner of war camp up his jacksie though....

Given the circumstances dear boy...

Does this explain your affinity to LB bats? Haha
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #101 on: January 14, 2011, 03:52:20 PM »
Quote from: jonpinson on January 14, 2011, 03:48:05 PM
Given the circumstances dear boy...

Does this explain your affinity to LB bats? Haha
LB, LH..... ;)
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #102 on: January 15, 2011, 05:38:57 PM »
Quote from: Canners 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


Is this still available mate ?? looks great I have to say...
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #103 on: January 15, 2011, 06:54:44 PM »
Iv got a Mjolnir SPS that is 2.9 with a thick spiral grip that i cud part with for the right offer, some of our new profile samples are also 2.8 when finished inc stickers that would fit you spec's by the sounds of it.

http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=9022.15
« Last Edit: January 15, 2011, 06:58:06 PM by Ayrtek »
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Re: Best Bat (weighing 2'8) for an Opening Batsman - Suggestions Needed
« Reply #104 on: January 15, 2011, 07:05:24 PM »
Quote from: CricketisLife on January 15, 2011, 05:38:57 PM
Is this still available mate ?? looks great I have to say...

It's never been up for sale, I would consider a decent offer tho
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