Great images in cricket.

[chads_shoe]

Ive got a load more.

 

[chads_shoe]

These are all from my uncle's collection. I managed to scan them years ago.

 

[Gough]

Bruce Laird's GN Quad Scoop is a thing of beauty.

 

[Plugger35]

Some great photos there, I like how even the cricketers wore flared trousers back in the Seventies.

 

[chads_shoe]

 

[Gough]

These are all from my uncle's collection. I managed to scan them years ago.

Viv Jenkins?

 

[chads_shoe]

Viv Jenkins?

No Patrick Eagar.

 

[Gough]

No Patrick Eagar.

Feel free to share the Kim Hughes Centenary Test shots.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I love the pale yellow kit

One retro summer please

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Whatever happened to SP bats?

 

[troybe]

Whatever happened to SP bats?

Still going

 

[Rabish Binney]

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Still going

When I played Junior Cricket (in the 1970's) a mate of mine had a bat called Crown.

Was made in NZ.

 

[Plugger35]

My first bat in junior cricket in the 80s was a County bat, you don't see them anymore, not surprising as it was a shithouse bat.

 

[Rabish Binney]

My first bat in junior cricket in the 80s was a County bat, you don't see them anymore, not surprising as it was a shithouse bat.

In high school, I had an Indian made version of a Gray Nicholls Double Scoop.

It was a covered white bat and it was a plank. It was simply awful, the worst bat I have ever used.

I had to use it for the season because Mum bought it for my birthday and I was too scared to tell her that it was absolute garbage.

And to make it worse, she wrote (in big letters with black texta) on it, ‘happy birthday’.

My mates took the pi55 out of me by calling it the great white hope.

I was so embarrassed to use it.

 

[Plugger35]

The County bat I had was a shithouse lightweight bat that I used when I played junior cricket from about 9 through to about 12.

Then I got selected for the Subi Floreat district team so my dad thought I should buy this kid a proper bat as he is a rising talent.

He took me to a cricket store to pick out a bat, I picked an SS Jumbo that Viv Richards used, it didn't help me bat like Viv though.

 

[Gough]

Kris Srikkanth wearing Gavaskar's skull cap.

 

[Smoooothy]

My first bat in junior cricket in the 80s was a County bat, you don't see them anymore, not surprising as it was a shithouse bat.

same - matchstick thin county sky in fluro yellow - just like merv hughes

 

[dogs105]

My first bat in junior cricket in the 80s was a County bat, you don't see them anymore, not surprising as it was a shithouse bat.

I had the County Dean Jones LE.

Was a cannon!

 

[worbod]

Garfield Sobers at the moment of receiving his knighthood from Queen Elizabeth in Barbados in 1975.

 

[The hands of stone]

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Still going

The owner of Saxon bought the rights to around 20 years ( if you live out East you'll probably know )
They are a nice bat - I used an SP hammer for a season . The wood on the top range was very nice , quite soft so needed so working in .

Nice to see they are still around, always were good to deal with .

 

[The hands of stone]

I had the County Dean Jones LE.

Was a cannon!

Mine was a county Clive Lloyd ' supercub '. Inherited it from a family friend.
Halfway through my first season it sounded like was aluminium, wood had gone in it. Sounded terrible but did the job

 

[troybe]

Deano in full flight with his County

 

[Rabish Binney]

Fairly sure this is Queenstown in NZ??

I played a round of golf there on a public course that was right next to the airport runway 10 years ago when me and the misses were on holiday

The only thing separating the course and the runway was a 12 foot high chain link fence. Bit weird addressing the ball for your next shot when there is a plane about to take off (or land) only about 75 metre's away.

 

[craffles]

The owner of Saxon bought the rights to around 20 years ( if you live out East you'll probably know )
They are a nice bat - I used an SP hammer for a season . The wood on the top range was very nice , quite soft so needed so working in .

Nice to see they are still around, always were good to deal with .

I bought an SP white diamond and for the price it was it’s a piece of junk IMO. Next bat will definitely not be an SP.

 

[The hands of stone]

I bought an SP white diamond and for the price it was it’s a piece of junk IMO. Next bat will definitely not be an SP.

I guess the good thing is noone is making you use their bats so you won't have to use another one.