Cricket Bat Overview
Bat is an equipment used by the batsman to play in a cricket match. When a bowler puts a ball to the batsman he uses a bat to hit the ball and to make runs. At the same time, two batsman plays in the ground and both of them keeps bat with them to hit the ball
When you purchase a new bat all are almost not in perfect condition for immediate use and always require knocking to allow fibers to hit a cricket ball without having damage to bat and allowing the batsman full power to be transfer to the shot
Knocking involves hitting the new bat with an old and hard cricket ball or with some metal. This affects fibers in bat and reduces bat snapping. The bat needs oil which is used to fill the gaps of the fibers of the bat.
Features
Bats are in many sizes and with many manufacturing variations. Commonly bats are in small size, youth size, and adult sizes. The short bat is common adult size and long bat are also available in markets.
Most adult bats are in max-width i.e. 4.2 inches, generally available cricket bat is the maximum length of 38 inches, and some of them may exceed 35 inches.
Many companies are trying to release new shapes and designs that satisfy the laws of cricket to make their companies popular in the cricket world and to multiply their sales. In early cricket, there are no such facilities that are in nowadays.
Average prices of cricket bats in Pakistan
- Standard Handle (Rs200-Rs22000)
- Short Handle (Rs1700-Rs17000)
- Long Handle (Rs300-Rs8500)
Some of the cricket bats making companies
- Multi Trading House
- Cannonball Sports
- A.S Sports
- Stone hill sports
- Barana International
- Ezcarto Industries
- K.H.S Trading CO
- Muhammad Ilam Din & Sons
- Hi-Glow Sports International
- Zulqur Trades
- AS Sports
- Bright Sports
- Privy Sports
- Shabir Sports
- Shopa cricket
- M zone Sports
- Qasir Sports
- Miracle Maker Sports
- Freeman Sports
- Duma Sports
PROS
- Some of helps you to improve power on your shots and hits on ball
- The coating on some bats helps to reduce condensation in the garment
- Bats with concave edge help you to improve control and to make better shots
- Some of the bats are of lightweight and some players demand lightweight bats
- There are also an English bats
- Some of the cheap bats also provide more control on shots
- Bats without concave edge also help to improve the power of the shots
- Some of the cheap bats are also made up of quality material
- Some of the bats are for both tennis and leather ball together
- Some of the bats have cross wave tape on edges that helps to play better short
- Almost every bat have Comfortable handle
- Low sweet spot
- If you see the quality of a bat then they have an acceptable price
- And some bats have an affordable price
- Almost every bat have an attractive design
- Some of the bats can be used with all kind of balls
- Some of the bats also come with a nice cover
CONS
- The bats that are excellent in quality are bit expensive
- Some of the bats come with a very thin edge
- Some of the bats are not for leather ball
- In some of the bats, quality could be better at the same price
- Some of the bats are of less hight
- You have to buy an expensive bat for better performance
Conclusion
Many companies make bats but all of the companies make sure that the bat is obeying all the rules of the game and no bat should disappoint any of the batsmen. Bats come in many shapes and designs. There are different bats for different age groups and bats of every different company have different prices and some of the companies whose bats are not even affordable for a normal person.