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Ha ha
Yeah the older one is a Plus from 1991!
A team mate used it last night in a midweek friendly and it made a healthy 16no after I refurbed it last week. Had to remove the rear stickers to repair a big toe crack and it’s held really well
Iconic decals. Fancy a Ridgeback 200o, GN Dynadrive, powerspot or ultimate to do up next. Maybe an SS Jumbo as well
Newer one is 2015 and 2’12 so bought that to use in the league alongside the Oz
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Yeah it’s bonkers
The people at the club get in on the international players orders (this is Scotland) and they get given a huge amount of bats, which are massive in profile compared to what I knew.
Speaking to them, the thing is they aren’t designed to last in the same way previous bats where. One player was saying that in the World Cup it was one bat per two/three games with nets. They measure them in balls faced!! (Appaz this isn’t every bat manufacturer, you get some players who use one stick the whole season/until it breaks)
Then they hand them down to the club. So you get juniors with these enormous bats that still have more than enough tickle for us mere mortals
Prob a healthy bit of marketing in there, but the bats are very different now for sure
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Do it
I played league/club stuff from about 1990 to 2008 then stopped and played 1 or 2 fun games a year because of hockey, life and cycling
Went back to it last year for winter nets and I have not regretted it for one minute. I now play mid week T20 & league on Saturday with nets once a week. It was hard to get back into it physically, because you forget that bowling, fielding and batting are actually really quite physical and the last time you did it you were faster and younger, but it’s a great game and people are generally very, very welcoming.
Every match is a full rollercoaster of emotions and almost a microcosm of life, but you always get a beer and laugh after with decent folk and even if that goes to shit, you can always sit in the shed, sanding a bat wondering why you played that shot/dropped that catch/or why the umpire was ‘clearly cheating’, counting down the hours until you get to do it all again.
It’s also got me back into following County stuff properly. Had Lancs v Somerset on today listening to Jennings go huge.
Love it
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Yeah, lads used to travel back out to Luton/beds/herts/bucks from London for a game way back when, rather that play in London at weekends.
South london has some decent smaller clubs with nice wickets, played on most of them over the years. Doesn’t help you in Bow, mind.
Must be some local clubs, they must just be further out
Up here (Edinburgh) we are really lucky, loads of decent clubs and loads of big schools, so even friendly T20’s are on decent strips, it’s bonkers
(There are also loads of Arti strips of mixed standards)
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Missed you comment about the v12
Was added in a swift (not swift enough) edit. I think I have it still in the loft. Moved onto other bats since, back when I played up in Notts - only midweek evening league, mind. But that was one of my favourites, with its ugly extra lump on the back.
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Sir Viv could have destroyed everyone with anything. Fabulous player. Although old man c00ps did once say “He’ll never make it in county cricket, if he keeps hitting it in the air…”.
(I didn’t inherit the cricket genes - he played for Somerset 2s in a couple of seasons, hence he got to see a bit of Viv for the 1s and in the nets)
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70s-80s. Will have to check the exact years. Certainly some tales because the overseas pros used to have to play in the Western League also, which he played in. He reined back on the cricket a bit when I (in 1980) and then my sister arrived, so it must have been around then. But I still did watch him and run round the boundaries of various grounds after the ball, notably at Keynsham with a young lad called Marcus who could bat a bit…
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Definitely. With all the big names and faces, they had such a great product.
Dad was Warnie's Sunday league skipper too, at Bristol Imperial (never made it onto the documentary though). "We didn't teach him a thing about cricket. But the lads taught him how to smoke and drink.", is the line he still trots out occasionally.
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The people at the club get in on the international players orders (this is Scotland)
Assumed you were going to say you were Manchester/Stockport/Cheshire based given your Peak Sports collection. My first bat came from their shop in Stockport. IIRC John Crawley was on £1 per run in the county championship as part of his sponsorship deal at the time.
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I live in Scotland now, but spent 13-18 in 90's Manc areas so Lancs and PS are nostalgic for me. I have a PS John Crawley, will dig out a photo.
The £1 per run probably explains the second career as a history teacher :)
He was a quality bat, just never quite reached his potential at international level
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Totally random
But I started playing cricket again after a good 14yrs off, after getting into fixing up old bats at the end of lock down.
Yes I have a Peak Sports problem…
Anyone else enjoy some nostalgic bat fettling?
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