History of Cricket Bats

[usy]

Damn I was just reading the whole "Cricket" article on wikipedia... look what i found (many people may know this already) but it's worth a talk..

Cricket bats comes from hockey stick shape..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_bat

 

[Left_Hander]

Bats have definetly come a long way since the first ones.

 

[usy]

Lol the point to post this thread was not random, spam, or give information that people already knew. If this is a cricket forum, we should bring new topics all the time to keep it active, Cricket discussions are lacking, and restricted to Current tours, Current happinings thats all..

 

[Leggie]

TBH, the one second last from right looks more like a modern day cricket bat...the latest bat is a bit too 'squary', if you know what I mean...

 

[usy]

yeah, maybe the grip has changed? because the last one looks like 1939... and changes happen all the time..

 

[Gilly Fan]

How the hell would you be able to play cricket with a Hockey stick?

 

[Covvy]

Wow that's amazing! I didn't know a bat came from a hockey stick. the 1774 bat looks the most like today's bats. It would be interesting how a really olden day bat would go against a modern bat?

 

[Almost_Austwick]

Not very well as they would be rock hard and extremely light. Most old bats needed a years prep in order for them to be playable - it's they had to be soaked in linseed oil for starters (which is where the myth that still need to do so comes from).

For example, W.G Grace used to employ a number of assistants who would 'break' in his bats for the following season to save himself the trouble. This would normally involve a mixture of soaking, drying and game time over the course of a season.

 

[Left_Hander]

TBH, the one second last from right looks more like a modern day cricket bat...the latest bat is a bit too 'squary', if you know what I mean...

I agree. It looks like a fence pale with a handle on it.

 

[usy]

lol look at the second bat..

 

[Leggie]

lol look at the second bat..

It looks like some sort of a sword from Prince Of Persia

 

[Kev]

How the hell would you be able to play cricket with a Hockey stick?

In the earliest forms of cricket the ball was literally bowled (Lawn Bowls style). Round arm bowling spelt the end of bats like that.

 

[aussie_ben91]

The bat after the hockey stick looks like a platypus.