Jarryd
Club Cricketer
So a stink is kicked up over Ricky Pontings graphite bat, it's banned, it's illegal they say. Yet....
He's using a graphite bat, how interesting...
He's using a graphite bat, how interesting...
Double Standards once more
- Thread starter Jarryd
- Start date
- Status
Well all that's been said is that they're being removed "with all possible speed", so he's probably allowed to- you'd think Kookaburra would have replaced all their sponsored players bats at the same time though, perhaps he's just using it because he can. Assuming the sticker is graphite of course
BigCrickNan
Chairman of Selectors
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2005
How do you now it's a graphite bat? Do the stickers make it graphite???
andrew_nixon
Chairman of Selectors
He's not using a graphite bat, he's using a bat that has the same design on the back as the banned bat, as most players who used it are doing.
Once again Jarryd sees a conspiracy where there is none.
Once again Jarryd sees a conspiracy where there is none.
Jarryd
Club Cricketer
Actually the bat is graphite.andrew_nixon said:
John Stern of Cricinfo.
If you’re a bat geek (that’s as in willow rather than Bruce Wayne) you might know that Kookaburra’s bat the ‘Beast’ was recently deemed illegal by MCC, the arbiter of cricket’s Laws, because it had a graphite strip down the back of the blade.
Ricky Ponting is the most high-profile user of the ‘Beast’ so he promptly ditched it and has been using one of Kookaburra’s other models in Australia’s Test in Cape Town.
So it was interesting to observe that Owais Shah, England’s sixth debutant in six Tests, used what looked to untrained observers like me the self-same ‘Beast’ while making a fifty in Mumbai before retiring hurt today.
People should know by now not to question my cricket intelligence (except re 2005 Ashes
)andrew_nixon
Chairman of Selectors
Note the bit in your quote from John Stern where he says untrained observers like me
Kookabura replaced all the illegal bats being used by players with legal ones with the graphite strip removed.
Kookabura replaced all the illegal bats being used by players with legal ones with the graphite strip removed.
cricketgirl
School Cricketer
why did they single out ponting when other high profile players around the world are using the bat.
It was not affecting the ball so why ban it. they coat the white ball don't they to give it more protection, isn't that enhancing it.?
It was not affecting the ball so why ban it. they coat the white ball don't they to give it more protection, isn't that enhancing it.?
sohum
Executive member
It has a graphite strip down the back of the blade... Which is the back of the blade? If it's the stickered side, then we cannot really see the graphite strip, can we?
tassietiger
International Cricketer
- Joined
- Mar 15, 2005
- Online Cricket Games Owned
But both teams have the same white ball. Not all players have graphite bats.cricketgirl said:
Because Ricky Pontings been in such good form it absolutely must have been due to the bat so they wanted to ban it for that reason. 
:
But wow what a surprise he uses the new bat without graphite sticker on back and still seems to be hitting it just as hard and making plenty of runs on a wicket where everyone struggled.
: But wow what a surprise he uses the new bat without graphite sticker on back and still seems to be hitting it just as hard and making plenty of runs on a wicket where everyone struggled.
Erm, you're wrong there. Actually, he was using the bat with the graphite sticker. Source: http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/241256.htmlandrew_nixon said:
andrew_nixon
Chairman of Selectors
Nope. Kookabura replaced the bats with ones of the EXACT same design to all sponsered players who wanted to carry on using them. It may look the same, but it doesn't have the graphite strip on.
- Status
