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Bat technology

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A couple of weeks ago, I visited my folks and was happy to see that they had kept some kept some of my old cricket gear (n.b. old people hoard ****)

Amongst other things, I found a GN scoop, several Jumbos and a Symonds Super Tusker that I got from Imran Khan in return for the ****tiest bat that Stuart Surridge ever made

Anyway, today I was at Sporty's Warehouse on the GC with my son and wandered into their cricket section where they have an excellent selection of bats and the difference between today's stuff and my 20+ year old gear is massive

Little wonder that modern batsmen make grounds look small when there is twice as much wood in their bats
 
fredfertang

fredfertang

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The last bat I owned was one of the early GN Scoops which weighed in at 2lbs 10ozs, although it was so nicely balanced it felt much lighter - it never did make up for a fundamental lack of talent though - what do bats weigh these days?
 
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Off the rack one seem to be mostly around 2lb 9 - 10ozs

Back in the day, they were either light (<2lb 8ozs) or railway sleepers
 
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