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Hmm…so now I know why Aussies are batting well 
Maybe McGrath also has a telescope/guding-ssytem in the eye !
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Ponting’s bat: graphite aint wood!
By Will 4 years ago, mid-April Leave a comment on this post
Well well well, things are hotting up. Apparently, Ricky Ponting’s bat has graphite support to strengthen it and ye olde MCC don’t like it one little bit:
Ponting’s Kookaburra bat is strengthened by a thin carbon graphite strip and MCC fear this gives him extra power and may damage the ball.
This one at Kookaburra’s site doesn’t mention graphite, but seeing as only 300 have been made it might well be the same one. But it gets better:
Rob Elliot, the managing director of Kookaburra, said it was “rubbish” to suggest the graphite provided extra power or would damage the ball. He said the MCC wanted to ban the bat and felt it could be a part of MCC’s attempt to try to destabilise Australia’s Ashes campaign.
I doubt the MCC are that clever! Some old fart in the corridors of Lord’s heard “graphite” and “willow” mentioned in the same breath and has objected. Storm in a tea-cup, but a funny one. England just need to ensure all balls bowled at Ponting’s magic graphite willow hit the outside / inside edges
Tags: ashes, australia, england, funny |
3 Responses to “Ponting’s bat: graphite aint wood!”
April 21st, 2005 at 12.16 pm
April 21st, 2005 at 2.00 pm
Nah, I think The Bastard is just a damn good bowler Manish…Us bowlers don’t need help with magic bats like batsmen
April 21st, 2005 at 6.34 pm
Yeah but still MCC would be better off distracting him, somehow ! And the bat thing reminds me, Sehwag broke his bat into two right in the center, in the recent series. So only wood for poor Indian bats 
