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New Cricket bat design: Mongoose

positron · 2009-06-10 08:02:48

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8064653.stm My first reaction is WTF?!! It looks weird, and if hitting sixes is all 20-20 is about, they might as well use a hurley? Has anyone here seen or tried one of these?

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10-06-2009 9:02am

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8064653.stm

Cricketers are getting to grips with a new design of bat called the Mongoose, the first major redesign since 1771.

My first reaction is WTF?!! It looks weird, and if hitting sixes is all 20-20 is about, they might as well use a hurley?

Has anyone here seen or tried one of these?

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#2 12-06-2009 9:25am
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Im not sure I get how using a smaller bat would make it easier to hit 6s...!

Hitting 6s is nothing to do with size, its to do with technique; I use a 2lb 5oz Kookaburra Bubble and I score plenty with it! That Mongoose bat just looks like a beefed up version of the small training bat we use for catching practice!

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#3 12-06-2009 9:37am
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Interesting article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/twenty20/5370046/Mongoose-cricket-bat-set-to-take-Twenty20-by-storm.html

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