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clubcricketeradi wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:The modern bats aren't heavy. They have a lot of wood in them but they aren't pressed. I think in the eighties, players used heavy bats. I'm not sure it works to say old time batters couldn't have used them. Clearly plenty could have, it just wasn't an option for them.
Modern bats are pressed and hence they have good stroke. The other reason for machine pressing is avoiding trouble of hand knocking.one more reason for pressing bat is to remove air within wood.Now pressed bats are also cheap.Many club cricketers also using it.
I picked it up. What magic did it hold? Was it real? The handle was thick, the blade bone-white. It was a handsome thing, but then so were lots of bats. What set it apart was the contrast between the overall feeling of size and power and the weightlessness of its pick-up. It was almost as if the wood wasn't willow at all, but balsa or some other drier, less dense substance.
In the days of Botham or Clive Lloyd, for example, who had a three-and-a-half pound bat - that's a hefty lump of willow. Nowadays bats are big but they are light, as you found with Kohli's. And what we're up against is the belief that a big bat is more powerful than a bat of the same weight that's smaller, which it isn't. That's against the laws of physics
The older bats like the Jumbo and the Magnum that this new design was starting to dwarf were solid and heavy. The new bats had greater size but their density was different. The moisture content was lower, the pressing less firm, and wood shaved from the shoulders and the first few inches of the bat allowed more for the middle and on the edges.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:clubcricketeradi wrote:Arthur Crabtree wrote:The modern bats aren't heavy. They have a lot of wood in them but they aren't pressed. I think in the eighties, players used heavy bats. I'm not sure it works to say old time batters couldn't have used them. Clearly plenty could have, it just wasn't an option for them.
Modern bats are pressed and hence they have good stroke. The other reason for machine pressing is avoiding trouble of hand knocking.one more reason for pressing bat is to remove air within wood.Now pressed bats are also cheap.Many club cricketers also using it.
I've looked this up Adi, and it seems the bats being used are unpressed, which is what I remember the commentators calling them. Try a search.I picked it up. What magic did it hold? Was it real? The handle was thick, the blade bone-white. It was a handsome thing, but then so were lots of bats. What set it apart was the contrast between the overall feeling of size and power and the weightlessness of its pick-up. It was almost as if the wood wasn't willow at all, but balsa or some other drier, less dense substance.
From an article on bats on cricinfo.In the days of Botham or Clive Lloyd, for example, who had a three-and-a-half pound bat - that's a hefty lump of willow. Nowadays bats are big but they are light, as you found with Kohli's. And what we're up against is the belief that a big bat is more powerful than a bat of the same weight that's smaller, which it isn't. That's against the laws of physicsThe older bats like the Jumbo and the Magnum that this new design was starting to dwarf were solid and heavy. The new bats had greater size but their density was different.[The moisture content was lower, the pressing less firm, and wood shaved from the shoulders and the first few inches of the bat allowed more for the middle and on the edges.
Sorry about the long quotes.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/co ... 87773.html
Arthur Crabtree wrote:At the risk of busting everyone's banalmeter, here is an ABC ODI side, in a plausible batting order (I had to bend that to get an i in there). They've all played in the format.
Hashim Amla
Ian Botham
Martin Crowe
AB deVilliers
Deon Ebrahim
Andrew Flintoff
Adam Gilchrist
Richard Hadlee
Mohammad Irfan
Mitchell Johnson
Anil Kumble.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Yes. I don't remember him at all, but he has a better record.
Got to keep Ebrahim though if I make it into A-K from eleven different countries.
Gingerfinch wrote:Just attempted a L-? team. gave up at U
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