30/11/2023
Every so often you pick out a piece of wood to make into a bat and it just says to you, "create something different" so here we go "something different" this to me is perfection willow. I am now in my 30th year of Bat Making and through my playing days I used every type of grain construction possible from the narrowest to the widest all the time gaining experience about what works best.
I appreciate that everyone has an opinion and a favourite type of bat and that's totally understandable, this is my opinion. I believe that anything between 7-10 grains gives the best performance and value for money. Cricket bats are expensive pieces of equipment. This year we have released a platinum range. These bats are hand selected by myself and in my opinion are perfect pieces of willow. They will be available in our standard bat shapes but occasionally something a little different will come along, that's exactly what this bat turned out to be. I'm not expecting this to be to everyone's liking, everyone is entitled to their own opinion I just hope sometimes people can think a little outside the box, something a little less traditional.
They bat pictured is 2:11 gripped because of the shape and balance personally I could use this myself and normally I would use 2:9ish it picks up wonderfully well. It's available now and I will leave it as available online for a week to see if there is any interest before adding it to our stock in our showroom. Please message through our social media sites if you are interested.
Many thanks.