All About Cricket Bats

A cricket bat is playing a vital role to win a cricket game. Cricket bat is an important equipment to playing a game. Without this no one can score run. This is the major influence on the sport over the years, that how bats have evolved.

Cricket Bat History

The first bat is established in 1624. In early days the cricket bat is look like hockey stick. During ancient times cricket bat has no characteristics and features of limited size and dimension nor the material, the player make their own bats with their hand. Nowadays, there are different cricket bats available in markets with different brand and features. The bat of the blade should not be more than 108mm wide and its total length should be 970 mm or less than that.
There is also not any guidelines regarding the weight of the cricket bat. Though typically the average weight lies between 1000 gms to 1400 gms. The willow is invented during the early 1800s to become a wood which is used as producing  cricket bats when round-arm bowling became the rule rather than the exception. This is the same wood whose bark powder has been blustered in the history to be used as the remedy for fever. In order to producing bats, nowadays a special hybrid of cricket bat is harvested. Willow is well known as a strong light weight wood.

Australian batsmen Against Indian Spinner – Its India Time Now !!!

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In all it was a moral victory for the India that the two young spin bowlers of Indian team enforced and ended with draw. The two matches were played between India and Australia on 18th Feb 2013. The Australian batsmen were exposed by India due to left-arm spinner Rakesh Dhruv and off-spinner Jalaj Saxena excelled with an impressive display. Rakesh Dhruv who is belonging to Gujarat take 5 wickets and 51 runs while an excellent player from Madhya Pradesh who is all rounder Jalaj Saxena take 4 wickets and scored 61 runs during practice matches. In the first Test match Dhruv and Saxena’s performance will certainly compound their worries and at the same time encourage Harbhajan Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha to go all out against Michael Clarke’s men.
In first inning Australia scored 235 in reply india got 451 runs. With 216-run deficit, India A skipper Gautam Gambhir enforced follow-on and Australian did a shade better in their second essay by finishing on 195 for three at the Guru Nanak College ground.
For 31-year-old Dhruv, who is a veteran of 75 first-class matches and is not a contender for the national side, this performance will certainly be the most memorable one of his career.

How to care the Cricket Bat and Equipments

Cricket equipment needs to be cared very gently, and  from the moment you purchase your very first cricket bat, there are many things to bear in mind.  In cricket equipment cricket bat is mostly needed special care and maintenance. The life  of your cricket bat is totally depend on how thoroughly it has been knocked-in, and properly oiled with raw linseed oil. The toe and the edges are the most important parts of the cricket bat, so we should regularly concentrate on them first. The biggest enemies of your bat is water because willow absorbs water and moisture very easily, so always keep  your cricket equipment dry. The storage of cricket equipment is most important part of caring. The poor storage can lead to broken bats or it may out of shape.

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  • During hot cricket season cricket equipment should be stored  in a cool and dry place and don’t let it dry out.
  • During practice time, bats get breaks out due to old cheap practice balls because these balls are very hard in nature. If you have a option, use an old bat for practice and keep your best bat for scoring more runs.
  • Especially the toe region get rapidly worse because too much moisture will cause wooden cricket equipment to swell, so keep your bat dry.
  • After every season give it a good service to your cricket equipment  If a small cracks appear, you can repair with wood glue or any best glue, and give a few oiling.

The most safe place is garage where you can store cricket equipment easily as it is cool as well as dry throughout the year.

India and Australia Cricket Test Match Series |Information and schedule

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india and australia Cricket test match series

On Friday, 22 February 2013 India Vs Australia Cricket Test Series will Started and this schedule is declared by The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). This series is an international bilateral series which is organized by india. There will be total 4 test matches in the series. First test match between India and Australia will be on 22 February-13 at MA Chidambaram Stadium – Chepauk, Chennai.
For the second Test, the teams will then move to Hyderabad, from 2 March 2013 to 6 March 2013. The action will subsequently shift to the north.
“The third Test from 14 March 2013 to 18 March will be host at Mohali , and the fourth, from 22 March 2013 to 26 March 2013 was finally in Delhi’s Ferozeshah Kotla Ground. It was the venue where the teams first played for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, in October 1996,”
The team is fully prepared to play in India however, the players of India should do hard work and lots of practice will be done against Australia. In recent Series India have got defeat against Pakistan in ODIs but India have also won the series from England so they have mixed feeling to results in this series.
Key Points:
  1. Gautam Gambhir is not playing in this test series.
  2. Harbhajan Singh picked for first two Tests
  3. Mitchell Starc Fast bowling would be the main focus while he’ll play on Indian sub continent pitches.

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Date and Time Match Details and Series
Fri Feb 22 – Tue Feb 26  1st Test – India vs Australia
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT MA Chidambaram Stadium – Chepauk, Chennai
Sat Mar 2 – Wed Mar 6  2nd Test – India vs Australia
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT Rajiv Gandhi Int. Stadium, Hyderabad
Thu Mar 14 – Mon Mar 18  3rd Test – India vs Australia
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali
Fri Mar 22 – Tue Mar 26  4th Test – India vs Australia
09:30 local | 04:00 GMT Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
– India vs Australia  Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

BDM Cricket Brand Information

BDM is a B.D. Mahajan and sons pvt. Ltd which was established in 1925. BDM is one of the leading company which exports high quality cricket products from India. During the world cup 1983 which was held in UK, the BDM Cricket Brand getting more popular. BDM Cricket Brand used latest technology with many expert craftsmen involved to create bow shape cricket bats for advanced cricketers. BDM Cricket bats made up from superior grade willow. For getting powerful strokes all bats are compressed with thick edges. It delivers better balance and pickup to the professionals for good performance.

SS Cricket Brand Information

Under the inspiration of his father Mr. N.K.Sareen was started a Sareen sports industries in the year 1969.  In 1976 Sareen sports industries were entered in India due to its hard work   In 1979 company started exporting the products among all over the counteries such as UK , Australia. The company meets the requirement of national and international markets for its better quality of cricket equipment  This company includes different product which is related to cricket ,tennis, and kits bags. This company is one of the biggest production and manufacturer in the world for cricket accessories. Most of the PRO’s like Saurav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S Laxman, Roger Binny, Manoj Prabhakar, and many other test cricketers S. Ramesh, Yuvraj Singh, Akash Chopra, and Deep Das Gupta are involved with SS Cricket Brand. The SS brand doesn’t compromises with quality.
The highest test runs scored by V.V.S. Laxman 281 and now 309 by Virender Sehwag at Multan in Pakistan are by SS Cricket Bat  which is SS TON.

SG Cricket Brand Information

 In the world of cricket, SG Cricket Brand  is one of the leading sports goods manufacturer in India. The Sanapareils company was started by brothers kedarnath and dwarakanath anand in lahore. After some time the company shifted from lahore to Sialkot. Both brothers set up a company and names as Greenlands. From that the family moves to Meerut and restarted there business.  Under the name of SG, Sanspareils Greenlands starts marketing its branded cricket products which are a huge hit worldwide.  Today SG launches premium shoes, clothing and other accessories. SG  products are exclusive and easily everywhere. SG specializes in Cricket equipments. SG company is based in Meerut UP the sports center of India. SG has been endorsed legendary cricketers VVS Laxman, Suresh Raina, Rahul Dravid.  After the foundation of 80 years, SG Crickeyt Brand makes an identity all over the world.

Kookaburra Cricket Brand Information

In 1890 a Australian sports company named as Kookaburra was established by an englishman, Alfred Grace Thompson. He was a saddle and harness maker who has a love for sport. He started his business in bay street brighton victoria. In the middle of this 1980s this company was producing cricket gear and also includes bats, hockey, apparel, ball as well as other product.  The most famous equipment are kookaburra cricket balls which was used in test cricket in Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and South Africa. After 100 years, Kookaburra cricket brand markets as A G Thompson Pty Ltd. Day by day many members of thompson family are getting involved to running the company. To make this brand first class ultralight protective equipment is used. Most of the international players which was sponsors by kookaburra brand  like Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Ian Bell, AB De Villiers, Martin Guptill, Steven Davies, Brad Hodge, Brad Haddin, Jamie Dalrymple.

GM Cricket Brand – Overview

In 1885 GM Cricket Brand ( Gunn & Moore ) was founded by English test batsman William Gunn and local businessman Thomas James Moore. The gm company was set up at 49 Carrington street in Nottingham. In the company very experienced craftsmen workout with finest and latest technology in manufacturing product with hand crafted and invented cricket bats first ever in the world for professionals. This company also deals with apparel, clothing and full range of cricket equipment  GM ( Gunn & Moore ) brand is among the most known brand in the world because of  their equipment of highest standards and latest technology is used. It produces best quality and design over other brand. Most of the international players like Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott, Steve Waugh ,Shane Watson, Stephen Fleming, Michael Vaughan, Anil Kumble are using GM brand of cricket bats.

Slazenger Cricket Brand Information

Over a centaury ago,  one of the biggest and most famous sports brand company was established in 1881 by Ralph and Albert Slazenger. It is probably fair to say that Slazenger Brand has made a history of importing and exporting the sports equipment and accessories around 1881. Slazenger is all rounder production and distributor all over the world. It deals with tennis, hockey, basketball, cricket, squash and golf sporting goods all over the world. Slazenger Cricket Brand is one of the best brand which delivers sporting goods in the world. To made their presence more stronger they used better technology and made some changes in design and appearance. The brand ambassador of Slazenger Cricket Equipment’s are Michael Clarke, Paul Collingwood. They uses Slazenger sporting goods.

 

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